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submitted 1 week ago by TRAHR@quokk.au to c/whatever@quokk.au

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 points 1 week ago

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 points 1 week ago

thats how you know trans women are women!

[-] Blibly@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Unironically true.

[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[-] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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 points 1 week ago

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 2 points 1 week ago

I'm so glad you told us about her

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