Quoting her Wikipedia entry,
Frances Elizabeth "Fran" Allen (born 1932) is an American computer scientist and pioneer in the field of optimizing compilers. Her achievements include seminal work in compilers, code optimization, and parallelization. She was the first female IBM Fellow. In 2006, she became the first female to win the Turing Award.
Here is a link to her 2006 Turing Award Lecture (streaming .mov file) which I quite enjoy.
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