Robert McNeesJan 2, 2023

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

Show threadRobert McNeesJan 2, 2023
Instead of spinning this out into a thread, allow me to point you to Lynn Conway’s website where you can read her story in her own words:
http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/BioSketch.html
Show threadChristine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖Jan 2, 2023
@mcnees And here’s a detailed explanation that I wrote ten years ago when she was being honoured for her VLSI work http://blog.plain-sense.co.uk/2013/02/meeting-lynn-conway.html
Meeting Lynn Conway

I can clearly remember the evening in late 1999 when the very first email from Professor Lynn Conway plopped into my inbox. In those days ...

Show threadJorge StolfiJan 2, 2023

@christineburns @mcnees

I was one of the 20-so students who took the very first VLSI-design-for-dummy-engineers course based on the just-issued Mead & Conway book. It was taught at Stanford by a researcher from Xerox PARC. Didn't know anything about them at the time; they were just two names on the book's cover...

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@JorgeStolfi @christineburns @mcnees Xerox Parc invented the mouse
Show threadChristine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖Jan 2, 2023
@JorgeStolfi @mcnees @JohnLoader6 The whole user interface paradigm in fact — windows, icons, mouse, pull-down menus (WIMPs)
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@christineburns @JorgeStolfi @mcnees my Amstrad PC used Gem pre Windows.
Jan 2, 2023 at 6:52pmWeb