Alice Allen (astronomer)
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Alice Allen is an American information technology specialist and astronomer, the editor of the Astrophysics Source Code Library[1] and a faculty specialist in the Astronomy Department of the University of Maryland, College Park.[2]
Allen is a graduate of Hunter College, in the School of Health Sciences,[3] where she studied medical laboratory science.[4] She worked in information technology as a consultant, in private industry, and for 22 years in the Division of Information Technology of the Federal Reserve Board, before retiring in 2017.[3]
She became editor of the Astrophysics Source Code Library in 2010,[3] on a volunteer basis, after previously volunteering for the Astronomy Picture of the Day web site.[1] Her work on making available the codes for processing astronomical data has been cited as an important component in the reproducibility of scientific research.[5]
