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In memory of Dr. Lynn Conway. We’re using her work, right now!

A thread of our own- misogyny (Part 2)

My #CompSci lecturers often dropped the names of inventors. But only if they were men. We talked about Gordon Moore, obviously Turing :rainbow-flag: was mentioned, about Don Knuth, about Chomsky etc. But when we discussed the #ARM architecture, we never talked about the inventor Sophie Wilson. We also never talked about Mary Ann Horton, despite her work on vi and terminfo – but of course we mentioned Bill Joy. We discussed the Spanning Tree Protocol, but not its inventor Radia Perlman. We ha…