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1. Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jan-2024 14:25:15 UTC Robert McNees

   Lynn Conway, electricial engineer and computer scientist, co-architect of the VLSI design revolution, and transgender activist, was born #OTD in 1938.

   She invented Dynamic Instruction Scheduling at IBM, but IBM fired her when they learned she was transitioning.

   Photo: Lynn Conway

   • Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jan-2024 15:35:28 UTC Robert McNees

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     Lynn Conway has a very detailed bio page at the University of Michigan, where she tells her own story in her own words.

     http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/BioSketch.html

   • Les capsules du prof Lutz (lutzray@mamot.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jan-2024 16:31:08 UTC Les capsules du prof Lutz

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     @mcnees Sophie Wilson, the designer of the ARM architecture, is also a trans woman :heart_trans: . And before, she conceived my first computer: the 1980 Acorn ATOM, which could run inlined 6502 assembly in its BASIC programs! :blobaww:

   • subpanel (subpanel@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jan-2024 16:31:25 UTC subpanel

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     @mcnees @riley @Wen Yes, it's true. However, it's possible we should make unflattering excuses for IBM and rebuttably presume it's not to do with the gender transition, it's to do with the USA's high workplace turnover rate and that she's "overqualified," a figment of the USA's effettery, negative selection and tall poppy syndrome. They be like Conway's done anything at work at all proficiently? That was rude and unprofessional. Wrong trans-woman./gen

   • 4mc (4mc@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jan-2024 18:03:11 UTC 4mc

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     @mcnees This was surprisingly out of character for the IBM that I worked with and for from 1974 onwards, they had and remained always on the side of progressives, they had the largest number of women, African American, and other minorities in meaningful positions. So reading about this was very disappointing.

     Here is the conclusion of the IBM side. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeremyalicandri/2020/11/18/ibm-apologizes-for-firing-computer-pioneer/?sh=359185d667d5

   • Muirén 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♾️✊🏿✊🏽✊🏼 (muiren@sfba.social)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jan-2024 18:04:43 UTC Muirén 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♾️✊🏿✊🏽✊🏼

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     @mcnees She was the only person who called me to share her support when I started transition in 2003.

   • Izen (izen@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jan-2024 19:34:34 UTC Izen

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