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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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[–] 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

One of the more ironic aspects of the anti trans movement; they reject the idea of transwomen being women then treat them like women via misogyny.

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    • [–] 9 points 2 months 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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    • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    I’ve always wondered how someone chooses to work for Nazis, and learns the hardway they were going to steal from you.

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    [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    I'm so glad you told us about her

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