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You can also add a couple more in somewhat more modern times: * Lynn Conway, who co-launched the Mead & Conway revolution that made VLSI feasible for the first
by amyjess 12y ago
You can also add a couple more in somewhat more modern times:
* Lynn Conway, who co-launched the Mead & Conway revolution that made VLSI feasible for the first time
* Sophie Wilson, who developed the ARM architecture
- xenophonf 12y agoNo kidding. I somehow forgot about Radia Perlman, too.
- kazinator 12y agoDid you cherry pick these examples to some ironic purpose? Sophie Wilson was "born Roger Wilson" (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Wilson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Wilson). "While struggling with life in a male role, Conway had been married to a woman and had two children." (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Conway http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Conway)
- xenophonf 12y agoHow's that ironic? They identify themselves as women and they're notable scientists/engineers.
- amyjess 12y agoTrans women are women.
- kazinator 12y agoOf course, I don't disagree with you, but think of it from, say, this angle: "Hey, class full of young women with university aspirations! Don't be put off from entering science and engineering fields. Look, there are even famous women in tech such as X, Y and Z which are behind some technology that you probably use, like the instruction language understood by the chips in most tablets and cell phones. Oh, they were born men and even had wives and kids, but don't let details like Y chromosomes and functioning penises be a distraction from this forcefully convincing rhetoric which I painstakingly prepared last night in my hotel room, on the backs of these two crumpled restaurant receipts. I'm confident that you can identify with them as human beings with struggles in their lives---just like you!" My point is that certain kinds of examples can detract from a thesis, by drawing focus to some other thesis or factors that may be perceived as confounding or whatever.