A Trans Woman Invented the Tech Behind Your Smartphone in 1965. (And Then IBM Fired Her, Obviously.)

https://pridesource.com/article/trans-lucent-sept-17-2026

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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Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 17 pts · 3d (2 replies)

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.

Nikki@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 17 pts · 3d (1 reply)

thats how you know trans women are women!

Blibly@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 3d

Unironically true.

CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de · 10 pts · 3d (1 reply)

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

boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 2d

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)

alapakala@quokk.au · 3 pts · 2d

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

Malica@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 1d

I'm so glad you told us about her