Allen describes IBM's Stretch computer.
Fran Allen, winner of the Association for Computing Machinery's A.M. Turing Award, describes IBM's STRETCH computer, by far the fastest in the world when it was finished in 1961. This clip taken from a keynote talk for the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in 2006. Video of the full talk is available as part of Allen’s ACM profile at https://amturing.acm.org/award_winner....