Lynn Conway, trailblazing trans computer scientist, dies at 85

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Ya can't judge a book by its cover. Wow, never heard of her till now. Super tech brains & determination. Damn, in the 50s!

I tripled VPN'd my connection before clickin the LGBTQ Nation just to be safe.


Kidding.

This excerpt jumped out to me:

“Chips used to be designed by drawing them with paper and pencil like an architect’s blueprints in the pre-digital era,” Bertacco wrote. “Conway’s work developed algorithms that enabled our field to use software to arrange millions, and later billions, of transistors on a chip.”

Oh yea, my favorite agency, DARPA. Gotta be a special breed of brains to get recruited. She certainly fits the bill of wizard.

Quote from your wiki link:

As sociologist Thomas Streeter discusses in The Net Effect when commenting on Conway's DARPA job:

"By taking this job, Conway was demonstrating that she was no antiwar liberal. (In response to critics, she has said, 'if you have to fight, and sometimes you must in order to deal with bad people, history tells us that it really helps to have the best weapons available'). But Conway carried a sense of computers as tools for horizontal communications that she had absorbed at PARC right into DARPA – at one of the hottest moments of the cold war."

I like her attitude. RIP.