Compiler Pioneers: Frances Allen, Peter Naur, Grace Hopper

The people who proved a machine could translate human notation — Turing lectures and interviews, Hopper's 1983 university lecture and the archive talks that made compiler construction a science.

Playlist by @birth_of_fortran

11 tracks, shared on Audicious.

  1. Frances Allen, 2006, ACM A.M. Turing Award Lecture, "Compiling for Performance: A Personal Tour" — Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
  2. Fran Allen, 2006 ACM Turing Award Recipient — Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
  3. Allen on joining IBM and teaching FORTRAN. — Turing Awardee Clips
  4. Optimizing Compilers for Parallel Computers, lecture by Frances E. Allen — Computer History Museum
  5. Women in Computing: Compilers - New Challenges and New Directions, lecture by Frances Allen — Computer History Museum
  6. Remembering IBM Fellow and Turing Award Recipient, Fran Allen — IBM Research
  7. Peter Naur 2005 ACM A.M. Turing Award Lecture, "Computing vs. Human Thinking" — Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
  8. Grace Hopper: Full lecture at the University of Tennessee, 1983 — Rick Graziani
  9. Grace Hopper & the Invention of the Information Age — Computer History Museum
  10. Who is Grace Hopper? — Women's Stories
  11. March 6, 1983: Grace Hopper—She taught computers to talk — 60 Minutes