The Institute - September 2020 - TI4

briefings

New
IEEE Medal
Honors
Female
Computing
Pioneer

Notice to the Membership
The IEEE Ethics and Member Conduct Committee
(EMCC) received a complaint against Dr. Ronald Mahler,
a member of IEEE. Following an EMCC investigation, a
hearing board appointed by the IEEE Board of Directors
found cause that he had violated Article 9 of the IEEE

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For her contributions to computing, Allen received the
Association for Computing Machinery's A.M. Turing Award
in 2006. She was the first woman to receive the honor.
The prize for the new IEEE award consists of a gold medal,
a bronze replica, a certificate, and a cash prize. Nominations for the award open in December.
The medal is scheduled to be presented in 2022.
-LYNN FRASSETTI

Lynn Frassetti is the senior awards presentation and communications
specialist for IEEE Awards Activities.
This article originally appeared online as "New IEEE Medal
Named for Computing Pioneer Frances E. Allen."

Code of Ethics and Article 3 of the IEEE Code of Conduct. The IEEE Board of Directors sustained these findings and imposed the sanction of a three-year suspension
from IEEE membership on Dr. Mahler. The IEEE Board
of Directors also determined that this notification to the
IEEE membership should be made.
-OFFICE OF THE IEEE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

IBM RESEARCH

new medal, sponsored by IBM, honors
computing pioneer and IEEE Fellow
Frances E. Allen, who died on 4 August.
The Allen medal recognizes innovative work
in computing that led to a lasting impact on the
field of engineering, technology, or science.
Allen joined IBM's research division in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., in 1957 and worked for the company for 45 years, until retiring in 2002. She was the first
woman to be named an IBM Fellow, the highest honor the
company bestows on scientists, engineers, and programmers.
During her career, Allen helped design and build Alpha,
a high-level code-breaking language that had the ability
to create new alphabets beyond the system-defined ones.
In the early 1960s, she led a team of researchers that
designed one of the first supercomputers-the Stretch Harvest-
for the U.S. National Security Agency. Allen also designed and
built the machine-independent, language-independent optimizing component of the Experimental Compiler for IBM's
Advanced Computing System.

https://www.ibm.com/us-en/ https://www.computer.org/profiles/frances-allen https://www.acm.org/about-acm/about-the-acm-organization https://amturing.acm.org/ https://www.ieee.org/about/awards/awards-guidelines.html https://www.ieee.org/about/awards/awards-guidelines.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_7950_Harvest https://www.nsa.gov/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Advanced_Computer_Systems_project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Advanced_Computer_Systems_project

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