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This appears to the the source Wikipedia is citing - http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/wordPressNEW/2024/06/11/lynn-c...
Which is the personal blog of Helen Boyd, author of one of the classic books on crossdressing and transgender, My Husband Betty. I was hoping for something more authoritative...
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For those skimming, this is the controversy over J Michael Bailey's book The Man Who Would Be Queen. I highly recommend reading Dreger's article. Conway (and others, particularly Andrea James) conducted a years-long campaign of harassment against Bailey. This included (among many other things) repeated attempts to get Bailey fired from his job at Northwestern, a series of vexatious complaints to an Illinois licensing…
Bailey has, it must be said, worked extraordinarily hard to earn his negative reputation. Even beyond the sheer inappropriateness of this episode, I can’t say I disagree with Conway’s assessment of him.
[1] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/northwestern-university-p_n_8...
Is there a citation for this, or an announcement somewhere? The Wikipedia page was changed, but with no link backing it up, and I can't find any. EDIT: ah, found it: http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/wordPressNEW/2024/06/11/lynn-c... RIP.
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Which is the personal blog of Helen Boyd, author of one of the classic books on crossdressing and transgender, My Husband Betty. I was hoping for something more authoritative...
Also Same.
RIP
[ref] https://youtu.be/W_cB8VYunY8?si=9M9QVmBipbKUXxMR&t=1414
Lynn Conway, Dynamic Instruction Scheduling https://web.archive.org/web/20150814232249/https://ai.eecs.u... This report was issued February 23, 1966 which was close to a year before Tomasulo's An Efficient Algorithm for Exploiting Multiple Arithmetic Units . I'd never heard of this report before today. It isn't taught in Berkeley's CS152/252. It's not mentioned in Hennessy and Patterson's books.
Something doesn't quite compute here though - according to Wikipedia after she announced her intent to transition Lynn was fired in 1968, but this paper was from 1966 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40650635 also does not have any information. Maybe at least someone shielded her for some time?
Also Francis Allen seems to have worked on the same project at IBM - she mentioned there were works by other women that other people (Turning award winners IIRC) took credit of - could Lynn's work be one of those? Really hope Fran and Lynn would at least knew each other.
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She was one of the people who literally built the technical foundation of the world we know. That alone justifies all the upvotes. The fact that she did that on top of basically starting life over at 30 due to the constraints around transition at that time? That's winning a marathon with a cinder block chained to your ankle. As far as the concentration of trans people in computing, AFAIK there are two predominant the…
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There's no thesis, we're just talking. I don't understand why I got called names and hostile responses. Meh. The second part of your reply is great, I figured this would be the place to ask somebody who knows about it. I wish you'd have started and ended with that. I'm one of those very nerds who never cared about who wants to sleep with whom. I must note that on occasion trans techies are aggressively hostile to non…
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Lynn Conway, Dynamic Instruction Scheduling https://web.archive.org/web/20150814232249/https://ai.eecs.u... This report was issued February 23, 1966 which was close to a year before Tomasulo's An Efficient Algorithm for Exploiting Multiple Arithmetic Units . I'd never heard of this report before today. It isn't taught in Berkeley's CS152/252. It's not mentioned in Hennessy and Patterson's books.
Wow, 4 citations. I feel happy for Lynn that she ended up doing a lot more impressive work, but definitely this should be restored to its proper place in the history of computing. Something doesn't quite compute here though - according to Wikipedia after she announced her intent to transition Lynn was fired in 1968, but this paper was from 1966 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40650635 also does not have any in…
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-nov-19-tm-54188...