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   Ruth Malan (ruthmalan@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 20-May-2024 08:05:55 JST Ruth Malan

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   “In 1968, Conway was fired by IBM after revealing she was undergoing gender transition. Starting from scratch and living in stealth mode under a new name, her career blossomed. Five years later, she was offered a research position at Xerox PARC. it was here, in the late 1970’s, that she invented the microchip design methodology that changed the world.”
   — Jim Boulton

   https://www.unsungheroes.info/product/lines-in-the-sand-e

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     Ruth Malan (ruthmalan@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 20-May-2024 08:05:56 JST Ruth Malan

     Ohhh!!

     “Lines in the Sand - DIGITAL COMIC

     A 20-page printed comic that tells the story of Lynn Conway's groundbreaking invention of Very Large-Scale Integration (VLSI) that enablies today's billion-transistor chips, and the birth of the foundry model that separates chip design and printing.”
     https://www.unsungheroes.info/product/lines-in-the-sand-e

     Via https://twitter.com/lynnconway/status/1778053340959498373

     Bill repeated this.