The Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology (ABI) announced today that Fran Allen, IBM Fellow Emerita and 2007 Turing Award Winner, and Mary Lou Jepsen, founder and CTO of One Laptop per Child, will be keynote speakers for the 8th Annual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference, which will be held October 1-4, 2008 at the Keystone Resort in Keystone, Colorado.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it has created a new Ph.D. Fellowship Award to honor Fran Allen, a pioneer in computer science. Fran Allen is a leader in simplifying programming for high performance computing, making complex computer languages more accessible to the masses.

By Anonymous NEW YORK The Association for Computing Machinery has named Frances E. Alien the winner of the 2006 A.M.Turing Award for her work in computer science. Alien's research has helped improve computer capacity for problemsolving and has enhanced the use of highperformance computing.

How does it feel to be the first woman to receive the nation's top computer science award? Sweet, indeed, says Frances Allen, the IBM Fellow Emerita who this week received the prestigious A.M. Turing Award.

By The Associated Press In a Feb. 21 story about the first woman awarded computing's Turing Award, The Associated Press, relying on information from IBM Corp., erroneously reported her age. Frances E. Allen is 74, not 75, IBM now says. A corrected version appears below.