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A Trans Woman Invented the Tech Behind Your Smartphone in 1965. (And Then IBM Fired Her, Obviously.) (pridesource.com)
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Lynn Conway invented a breakthrough that shaped modern computing, then spent 30 years watching IBM get the credit while she stayed hidden

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[–] 9 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

Conway's specific contribution, a method called dynamic instruction scheduling

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    Both very important for performance and also at fault for most of the CPU exploits discovered in recent (maybe less recent now) years a la Spectre, Meltdown (though I'm not sure if her early version of out-of-order execution featured branch prediction like the CPUs that were found exploitable or only went ahead of schedule when the results were independent)

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