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Alice Recoque, née Arnaud (born Cherchell, Algeria; 1929) is a French computer scientist, computer engineer and computer architecture specialist. She worked on the designs of mini-computers in 1970s and led research focused on Artificial Intelligence.

Early life
She was born in 1929 in Chechell, Algeria. She finished École supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles in 1954 with a title of graduate engineer and started working at Société d'électronique et d'automatisme (SAE).

Career
At SAE she worked on core memories of CAB1101. In 1956 Alice Recoque and Françoise Becquet started designing the mini-computer CAB500 - the first conversational desktop computer. The computer was released in 1960. The CAB500 was a French low cost mini-computer, the purpose of which was to do complex, scientific calculations.

After the merger of SAE and CAE, the Compagnie internationale pour l'informatique (CII) was born in 1966. She continued her work at CII when she worked on designing Mitra computers. The first design, Mitra 15, launched in 1972. Both the Mitra 15 and CAB500 were commercial successes in France.

She led the Bull Group at CII. In 1985 the Bull Group focused on the research on highly parallel machines and artificial intelligence. During that period she helped develop the language KOOL(knowledge representation object-oriented language) with it's implementation in LISP.

She was a speaker at The European Association for microprocessing and microprogramming in August 1975.

Achievements
In 1979 she received the Ordre national du Mérite - Au grade de Chevalier.

In 1985 she was promoted for the Officier de l'ordre national du Mérite.

In 2016 she became an honor member of Société informatique de France.