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JohnMashey (johnmashey@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 01-Apr-2024 05:30:03 JST JohnMashey
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Anyone who uses products/services based on VLSI semiconductors, especially those with ARM microprocessors (i.e., ~all smartphones) should know major contributions were made by trans folks, both Fellows of #ComputerHistoryMuseum, among many other honors.
Lynn COnway (VLSI design, crucial 1979 book, I still own one)):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Conway
Sophie Wilson, ARM:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Wilson
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  Lynn Conway
  
  Lynn Ann Conway (born January 2, 1938) is an American computer scientist, electrical engineer and transgender activist.She worked at IBM in the 1960s and invented generalized dynamic instruction handling, a key advance used in out-of-order execution, used by most modern computer processors to improve performance. She initiated the Mead–Conway VLSI chip design revolution in very large scale integrated (VLSI) microchip design. That revolution spread rapidly through the research universities and computing industries during the 1980s, incubating an emerging electronic design automation industry, spawning the modern 'foundry' infrastructure for chip design and production, and triggering a rush of impactful high-tech startups in the 1980s and 1990s. Early life and education Conway grew up in White Plains, New York. Conway was shy and experienced gender dysphoria as a child. She became fascinated by astronomy (building a 6-inch (150 mm) reflector telescope one summer) and did well in math and science in high school. Conway entered MIT in 1955, earning high grades but ultimately leaving...
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  Sophie Wilson
  
  Sophie Mary Wilson DistFBCS (born Roger Wilson; June 1957) is an English computer scientist, a co-designer of the Instruction Set for the ARM architecture.Wilson first designed a microcomputer during a break from studies at Selwyn College, Cambridge. She subsequently joined Acorn Computers and was instrumental in designing the BBC Microcomputer, including the BBC BASIC programming language. She first began designing the ARM reduced instruction set computer (RISC) in 1983, which entered production two years later. It became popular in embedded systems and is now the most widely used processor architecture in smartphones. In 2011, she was listed in Maximum PC as number 8 in an article titled "The 15 Most Important Women in Tech History". She was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2019. Early life and education Wilson was born in Leeds and brought up in the village of Burn Bridge, North Yorkshire. Her parents were both teachers, with her father specialising in English and her mother in physics. In 1976 she went to Selwyn College...
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  Chris Geidner (chrisgeidner@journa.host)'s status on Monday, 01-Apr-2024 05:30:04 JST Chris Geidner
  
  Before the week ends, I wanted to show what actually happened in the states across the country as the NYT dismissed criticism of its trans coverage. New, at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/a-new-anti-trans-law-in-utah-seven
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    A new anti-trans law in Utah, eight more anti-LGBTQ bills pass a state legislative chamber
    
    from Chris Geidner
    
    The legislative action comes in a week when The New York Times dismissed criticism of its coverage of trans people.
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