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NAM-IP Computer Museum @[email protected] · 2026-03-29 · 09:19 UTC

Test d'un Atari ST en mode musical 🎼🎶 avec le logiciel de composition pilotée à la souris Music Mouse de Laurie Spiegel, une compositrice américaine pionnière de la musique électronique assistée par ordinateur ! 🎼🎵

Bientôt expérimentable dans notre nouvel espace interactif qui comporte déjà un xylophone et une boîte à musique programmable physiquement (plots et poinçons 😄) 🎶🎵

#retrocomputing #musique #midi #atari #musicmouse #lauriespiegel

KEXP 🎶 #NowPlaying Bot @[email protected] · 2025-08-02 · 13:13 UTC

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #90TEEN

Laurie Spiegel:
🎵 Appalachian Grove III

#LaurieSpiegel

https://lauriespiegel.bandcamp.com/track/appalachian-grove-iii

https://open.spotify.com/track/79qnW6PocozamltQqh8In9

#nowplaying #kexp #90teen #lauriespiegel

1001 Other Albums @[email protected] · 2024-08-28 · 18:00 UTC

When I started this project, I had every intention of going through everyone else’s recommendations on The List as quickly as possible…until I realized just how huge a thing that is. I’ve now fallen into the pattern of not listening to the albums until its their turn for a spotlight, only making an exception if the Fediverse keeps putting one of them in front of my face, making me too curious to wait.

One such exception is this album, number 83 on The List. I decided to let The Expanding Universe jump the queue because one contributor in particular (and the person who submitted it to The List), avi_miller, not infrequently either kept mentioning it or including it in their 5×5 grid posts on Mastodon. And I’m very glad I did. This album does something to my brain, like scrubs it, or massages it, as if I can feel neurons firing all over, all in a good way. Philip Glass has a similar effect for me but more patterned and localized – this one is more free…expanding, I suppose. Anyway, I let Avi know I had taken a listen, and they whipped up the below thoughts for today’s spotlight. Enjoy!

In 1973, Laurie Spiegel started working at Bell Laboratories, a United States research center dedicated to the exploration of ground-breaking technologies. There, she would be given free-reign to experiment with some state of the art computers, the machines that would allow her to create the music that makes up her 1980 LP, The Expanding Universe.

The most important piece of technology behind the music on this album was GROOVE (Generating Realtime Operations On Voltage-controlled Equipment) System. Put simply, GROOVE System was a digital-analogue hybrid computer music system developed by Max Mathews, along with Lawrence Rosller, F. Richard Moore, and other colleagues from the late 1960s into the year 1970 at Bell Labs. The machine consisted of a wide variety of input and output devices, notably including 2 single megabyte hard disks which, to paraphrase Spiegel herself, were each roughly the size of a washing machine, all connected to a 24 bit DDP-224 computer in the next room over, visible through a window. (The actual computer was in a separate room from the inputs and outputs for the sake of temperature control.) This computer was then connected to a hefty amount of analog synthesizer equipment in a room down the hall. Digital signals from the computer room were sent to the analog room to control the equipment in there and then back to the computer room to be heard with speakers in real time in the input & output room.

Part of what made GROOVE System so revolutionary for the time was that it was a music making tool with a computer that was programmable both in DAP 24 and FORTRAN IV. The ability to write programs and algorithms that interacted with music being played by a musician in real time, all which could be recorded to digital memory, offered a layer of freedom to experiment with compositions that wasn’t available to most musicians in the early 1970s. Because of this aspect, Spiegel could more easily play with various elements of her pieces like the ambient textures of the title track, or the 4 rhythms that separately fluctuate across the 4 simultaneously playing melodies on Patchwork, each melody flowing in & out of view within the mix at various points.

Spiegel composed many pieces during her time at Bell Labs. 4 of those pieces, which date from 1974 to 1976, were released on the original 1980 release of the album via Philo (with another 15 that date from 1974 to 1977 being added for the 2012 reissue by Unseen Worlds).

If you are interested, it is well worth reading the liner notes from the re-release, which go into more detail behind the making of the album and the technology used [in the blog linked below].

https://1001otheralbums.com/2024/08/28/laurie-spiegel-the-expanding-universe-1980-us/

#1001OtherAlbums #1980s #ambient #BellLabs #electronicMusic #experimental #LaurieSpiegel

#1001otheralbums #1980s #ambient #belllabs #electronicmusic #experimental

#FreeSchool <---> Hashtag @[email protected] · 2024-06-25 · 18:47 UTC

CW: Women in Computing, Science, Engineering who contributed (Crediting the unmentioned and some still alive to praise!)...

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INTRO (or skip to LIST) "We never talk about these women"... (Version 11)
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Too many men got the credit for other people's work!

Usually men are either given or taking the credit all for themselves.

We see it day to day. But not today!

THIS POST GIVES THE UNSAID THE CREDIT !
Non-men are usually not given the credit they deserve SO HERE IT IS!

A dedicated list and #Justice for all the silent injustices!

Name + reasons / what they + hashtags + links for future generations BELOW!...

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🔁 ONE BIG *FEDIVERSE POST* TO BOOST / REPLY TO FOREVER 🔁
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Click reply to add more to this collection + the Wikipedia link please...

...so society and academic writers can use these names as alternative sources and lists!

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We never talk about... (Fediverse people first + #FreeSchool mostly checked / verified these - mostly not a Twitter bot acc!)

*Lynn Conway* #LynnConway RIP 2024 [Special mention]
#trans woman #CPU #designer
(more at end of this post, CTRL-F name!)

*Lisa Melton* #LisaMelton
#Safari + #WebKit projects at #Apple, underground comics, newspaper graphics, Adobe and Netscape, #transcoding + podcast
FEDIVERSE: @lisamelton )

Emily M. Bender (Prof / she / her) #EmilyMBender
Professor, Linguistics, University of Washington, Faculty Director,
FEDIVERSE: @emilymbender

Timnit Gebru (she / her) #TimnitGebru
Fired from Google for raising issues of discrimination in the workplace:
https://www.wired.com/story/google-timnit-gebru-ai-what-really-happened/.
Writes about the dangers of large language models or #LLM:
Founded The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://www.dair-institute.org/) to work on community rooted AI research.
FEDIVERSE: @timnitGebru

*Molly White* #MollyWhite
crypto researcher & critic, software engineer, wikipedian, @web3isgreat
FEDIVERSE: @molly0xfff / https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff
FEDIVERSE: @web3isgreat @web3isgreat / https://indieweb.social/@web3isgreat

*Vesna Manojlovic* (she / her)
Community Builder (UnCiv) / hacker / mother / artist / feminist / activist / émigré / Yugosaurus / NL
FEDIVERSE: @becha
WEB: https://becha.unciv.nl/

Cat Hicks #CatHicks
Social & Evidence Scientist. Defender of the mismeasured.
#psychology #evidence #statistics #measurement theory #research
Founder of the Developer Success Lab
FEDIVERSE: @grimalkina

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List not yet found on Fediverse ??
(as yet found by #FreeSchool 2024)
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*Sophie Wilson* #SophieWilson
#ARM #architecture inventor

Mary Ann Horton* #MaryAnnHorton CONFIRMED ALIVE (68)
Pioneer for Usenet and Internet. Contributed to Berkeley UNIX (BSD) including the #vi editor and #terminfo database + created the first email binary attachment tool uuencode.
WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ann_Horton
WEB: maryannhorton.com

*Radia Perlman* #RadiaPerlman
Spanning Tree Protocol inventor

*Adele Goldberg* #AdeleGoldberg
Origins of #OOP and #Smalltalk
Model of Communicating Entities (The Cuis-Smalltalk Book)
WEB: https://cuis-smalltalk.github.io/TheCuisBook/Class-_002d-Model-of-Communicating-Entities.html

*Kathleen Booth* #KathleenBooth
woman who wrote the first #Assembler,

*Sally Floyd* #SallyFloyd
pioneering work in Internet congestion control.

*Klára Dán von Neumann* #KlaraDanVonNeumann
Considered one of the first programmers, #MANIAC I and #ENIAC and coded the first monte carlo simulation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kl%C3%A1ra_D%C3%A1n_von_Neumann

Hedy Lamarr #HedyLamarr on Big Screen #Cinema
https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/hedy-lamarr
Film called: "Bombshell: The Hedey Lamarr Story" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6752848/

*Mary Kenneth Keller* #MaryKennethKeller
First woman to earn a PhD in computer science (almost first person ever, but the first man to earn the degree accepted his diploma at Washington University in Saint Louis earlier the very same day.)
SISTER Mary Kenneth Keller! Religious... !
https://onwisconsin.uwalumni.com/on-alumnae-mary-kenneth-keller/

Grace Hopper #GraceHopper RIP 1906-1992
Coined the term "bug" (after an actual bug caused a bug) !!!!
Spoke at Penn State ~1970
WIKIl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper

*Dorothy Denning* #DorothyDenning
Invented Intrusion detection systems, huge in information security
WIKI: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_E._Denning

*Barbara Liskov* #BarbaraLiskov CONFIRMED ALIVE!
Pioneer contributions to programming languages + distributed computing
The L in the “SOLID” principles of object oriented design.
WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Liskov

*Nancy Lynch* #Nancy Lynch
Pioneer theoretician of distributed systems.
WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Lynch

*Nancy Leveson* #NancyLeveson CONFIRMED ALIVE!
Pioneer of safety-critical systems such as the Traffic Collision Avoidance System (TCAS)
Editor of the journal IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.
Held memberships in the ACM, IEEE Computer Society, System Safety Society, and AIAA
WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Leveson

*Ada Lovelace* / Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace #AdaLovelace
English mathematician and writer, worked on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine.
She was the first to recognise that the machine had applications beyond pure calculation.
WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace
Museum Exhibit: https://computerhistory.org/press-releases/ada-lovelace-release/
Audio Talk / Interview: https://spectrum.ieee.org/qa-adele-goldberg-on-the-legacy-of-smalltalk

*Susan Graham* #SusanGraham
1st female CMPSC prof and only female for a decade+ at UC Berkeley and
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_L._Graham

*Mar Hicks* #MarHicks
Women, Gender, Sexuality in Computing istory
https://computerhistory.org/blog/women-gender-sexuality-and-computing-history/
https://www.amazon.com/Programmed-Inequality-Discarded-Technologists-Computing/dp/0262535181

*Diane Greene* #DianeGreene - friend of JohnMashey @JohnMashey
Software manager at SGI:
WIKI: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Greene

*Megan Smith* #MeganSmith - friend JohnMashey @JohnMashey
Worked at General Magic
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megan_Smith

*Sue Owicki* #SueOwicki - friend of JohnMashey @JohnMashey
Consulting for SGI
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Owicki

Lizy John:
Professor at University of Texas at Austin, Indian American electrical engineer, Editor-in-Chief (EIC) of IEEE MICRO
WIKI: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizy_John

(Potential contact relative to above and more):
JohnMashey @JohnMashey who worked at Bell Labs, crucial time for CMPSC, 100+ talks around USA as an ACM National Lecturer. Decades in Silicon Valley, including 22.5 years as Trustee at Computer History Museum. Has met many terrific people including above.

*Laurie Spiegel* #LaurieSpiegel
Bell Labs in 1973 developed computer music systems (GROOVE, Alles), did most of the design work on the alphaSyntauri system (used by Apple II) and later the McLeyvier, 1986 she released her own algorithmic composition software called Music Mouse.Her musical interpretation of Kepler's "Harmonices Mundi" is Track 1 of the golden record on board Voyager.
She also plays the guitar and lute.
WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie_Spiegel

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*Ida Rhodes* #IdaRhodes
*Carol Shaw* #CarolShaw
*Shafi Goldwasser* #ShafiGoldwasser
*Edith Clarke* #EdithClarke
*Annie Easley* #AnnieEasley
*Joyce Little* #JoyceLittle
*Barbara Liskov* #BarbaraLiskov
*Jeannette Wing* #JeannetteWing
*Pamela Zave* #PamelaZave
*Muffy Calder* #MuffyCalder
*Ursula Martin* #UrsulaMartin

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Original #ENIAC programming team:
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Kay McNulty #KayMcNulty
Betty Jennings #BettyJennings
Betty Snyder #BettySnyder
Marlyn Wescoff #MarlynWescoff
Fran Bilas #FranBilas
Ruth Lichterman #RuthLichterman

+ maybe some black women were also involved with this project but sadly this has not been well documented and information about them may have been lost in the historical record.

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OTHER SOURCES AND INFO FOLLOWS:
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#WomenInTechBook <== Book

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Notable Women In Computing
A Playing Cards Project:

https://medium.com/csforall-stories/notable-women-in-computing-playing-cards-project-8c6739ce4494
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Association for Women in Computing (AWC)
www.awc-hq.org

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Klára Dán von Neumann (John von Neumann's wife)
...MORE INFO...
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Considered to be one of the first programmers:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kl%C3%A1ra_D%C3%A1n_von_Neumann

She was Head of the Statistical Computing Group at Princeton, and worked at Los Alamos laboratory. She programmed the MANIAC I and #ENIAC and coded the first monte carlo simulation.

The Lost Women of Science podcast devoted an entire season to her, I've been meaning to get around to finishing it:
https://www.lostwomenofscience.org/season-2

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Computer History Museum’s "Hall of Fellows"
includes many of the women mentioned + more!
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https://computerhistory.org/hall-of-fellows/

⬇️ EXAMPLE SEARCH
= Adele Goldstine #AdeleGoldstine https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/oralhistories/?s=Adele+Goldberg

aardvark @aardvark said "I carried a box for Adele after a conference, and have her books!" (https://ioc.exchange/@aardvark/112618298437725182)

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*Lynn Conway* #LynnConway RIP 2024
...more info / story...
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#trans woman #CPU #designer

Lynn developed "generalized dynamic instruction dispatch" for IBM in 1966.

2 years later she was kicked out, just after Robert Tomasulo published the "Tomasulo Algorithm" for out-of-order execution of floating point instructions, utilizing Lynn's work.

Everyone knows Tomasulo (and he did great work, mind you!), but no-one knows Lynn.

Later, in technical compsci, you may stumble upon highly integrated circuits, everyone there knows #VLSI but not the inventor, our dear Dr. Conway.

Her story, her struggle against IBM who took decades to apologize to her for her mistreatment. She transitioned in darker times and pioneered not "only" in compsci. She was what many would call "greater than life". She died early Jun 2024.

Today let's remember Lynn 🏳️‍⚧️
Today and tomorrow we fight on ✊
See also: Talk on Wikipedia: Out-of-order execution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Out-of-order_execution#Lynn_Conway

The name of Conway is usually dropped and both concepts (register renaming etc. and multiple-issue) subsumed under one, effectively erasing Conway's work. If it isn't then multiple-issue is often erroneously attributed to Yale Patt.

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All info ripped, added, transformed from Internet / Wiipedia / Fediverse by #FreeSchool and the many posts from this thread to re-make this post:

https://todon.eu/@ljrk/112614620740598888

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