#mollywhite — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #mollywhite, aggregated by home.social.
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The Crypto industry is already engaged in building up and spending SuperPAC money to influence the upcoming 2026 elections with ~ $3 million already spent primarily on special elections in Florida and Virginia.
Crypto PACs claim they already have $221M cash on hand with an additional
$100M "committed" but not yet reported publicly.Fun Fact: Fairshake, (the largest Crypto PAC by far) is now the #5 most-funded PAC in the country.
Here is a great tracking web site updated regularly and shows where the $$ are coming from and where they are going to. https://www.followthecrypto.org/ #Crypto #Politics #SuperPACS #PACs #FairShake #FollowTheCrypto #CitiationNeeded #MollyWhite #FEC #Elections #2026MidTerms
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just got a sticker from @pluralistic at a book event to round out the collection on my #MNTPocketReform laptop. joining #MollyWhite #404Media #TechWontSaveUs and #SamWallman
I appreciate the #union bug, Cory!
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just got a sticker from @pluralistic at a book event to round out the collection on my #MNTPocketReform laptop. joining #MollyWhite #404Media #TechWontSaveUs and #SamWallman
I appreciate the #union bug, Cory!
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just got a sticker from @pluralistic at a book event to round out the collection on my #MNTPocketReform laptop. joining #MollyWhite #404Media #TechWontSaveUs and #SamWallman
I appreciate the #union bug, Cory!
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just got a sticker from @pluralistic at a book event to round out the collection on my #MNTPocketReform laptop. joining #MollyWhite #404Media #TechWontSaveUs and #SamWallman
I appreciate the #union bug, Cory!
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just got a sticker from @pluralistic at a book event to round out the collection on my #MNTPocketReform laptop. joining #MollyWhite #404Media #TechWontSaveUs and #SamWallman
I appreciate the #union bug, Cory!
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Have you always wanted to edit #Wikipedia but were never sure how to get started? This video is a very helpful primer, breaking down what to do, how to do it, and the culture of Wiki editing. https://youtu.be/bRRHR1NEOqE?si=el4-0gOcpP9u7hu8
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@molly0xfff is one of the most interesting tech critics out there, covering subjects like crypto industry spending in politics, Web3, and the tech industry as a whole with integrity and (sometimes) optimism. She spoke to NiemanLab about her Follow the Crypto site, her love of RSS, migrating from Substack to @ghost, and more. At the second and third links find her DotSocial conversation with @mike and an extract from her Fediverse House presentation at last year's SXSW.
https://flip.it/N3o96i
https://flipboard.video/w/ovAsDRovkgbihkZa3wMcUA
https://flipboard.video/w/p7cECAUgThGrfQo9Cqvb8r#DotSocial #SXSW #MollyWhite #Crypto #Technology #Tech #RSS #Ghost
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This is worrisome!
https://www.citationneeded.news/openai-incel-chatbot-subhuman-men/
#MollyWhite #AI #OpenAI #Incel #Surgery
If you’re not subbed to CitationsNeeded.news you should be.
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This is worrisome! https://www.citationneeded.news/openai-incel-chatbot-subhuman-men/ #MollyWhite #AI #OpenAI #Incel #Surgery If you’re not subbed to CitationsNeeded.news you should be.
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Thanks to the open web, it’s more viable than ever for creators to take back ownership and control of their livelihoods. @molly0xfff joined Flipboard CEO @mike at SXSW 2025 to talk about building an ethical, creator-first internet. That fireside chat is now available as a Dot Social episode. Listen in full!
https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/molly-white-sxsw-2025/
#DotSocial #OpenSocial #Fediverse #DigitalSovereignty #Flipboard #SXSW #FediverseHouse #CreatorEconomy #Creator #MollyWhite #Internet #Tech #Technology
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQSwNUGFAcA&pp=0gcJCYUJAYcqIYzv
Trump's Newest #Grift: #MollyWhite on First Family's #Crypto bullshit
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Love this clip from @molly0xfff's Fediverse House talk:
"Imagine for a moment a web where communities can create their own spaces while still simultaneously and seamlessly interoperating with others. Think of it like a network of independent neighborhoods, each with its own character and rules, but with shared community spaces, art galleries and libraries.
"In this web, you control what you create and decide how it's shared.The algorithms that shape that experience, they're transparent and customizable. You can peek under the hood or tweak them to your liking or replace them entirely if they're not serving your needs. If you're sharing a space with a group of others and you disagree with how they run that space, you can leave, but you can take your work and your community with you.
"This isn't just a dream. This is already happening. Take Mastodon and the broader Fediverse, where millions of people are building communities that talk to each other across servers and platforms."
https://flipboard.video/w/s6FVEb2wei2ctFrdeZjuZa
#OpenSocial #OpenSocialWeb #ProtocolsNotPlatforms #MollyWhite #DigitalSovereignty #ActivityPub #Fediverse #FediverseHouse #SXSW #Mastodon
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Fighting words from @molly0xfff's opening talk at the Fediverse House at SXSW 2025:
“We're facing an existential threat. We need a web that serves people not profit, a web built on protocols, not platforms…It's being built right now by people like you in communities like this one.”
Thank you, developers and denizens of the open social web.🙏🏼
https://flipboard.video/w/p7cECAUgThGrfQo9Cqvb8r
#OpenSocial #OpenSocialWeb #ProtocolsNotPlatforms #MollyWhite #DigitalSovereignty #ActivityPub #Fediverse #FediverseHouse #SXSW
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If you’re not in Austin or can’t attend, we recommend checking out Molly’s Dot Social conversation with Mike, which touches on many of the same themes, recorded about a year ago:
https://dot-social.simplecast.com/episodes/molly-white
#Fediverse #DigitalSovereignty #MollyWhite #DotSocial #Podcast
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Later in the day, Molly will be in conversation with Mike McCue in a panel called “Digital Sovereignty Is the New Influencer Status” (you’ll need a badge to attend this one):
https://schedule.sxsw.com/2025/events/PP147154
#Fediverse #FediverseHouse #SXSW #SXSW2025 #MollyWhite #DigitalSovereignty
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@molly0xfff will be kicking off #FediverseHouse Sunday morning with a version of her XOXO talk that looks at the future of the web with optimism (yay optimism). RSVP to this segment and more: https://lu.ma/oc052rvr
#Fediverse #FediverseHouse #MollyWhite #SXSW #SXSW2025 #Tech #Technology
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"Debanking is suddenly less of concern when the same group that is most equipped to tackle it has proposed consumer protections for crypto customers that could cause Coinbase to have to reimburse some of the $300 million or so stolen from its customers over the past year alone."
#MollyWhite, 2025
https://www.citationneeded.news/crypto-industrys-debanking-smokescreen/
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"Indeed, some evidence presented at the hearings did raise legitimate concerns about regulatory overreach, even if it didn't specifically support claims of an anti-crypto agenda."
#MollyWhite, 2025
https://www.citationneeded.news/crypto-industrys-debanking-smokescreen/
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"Techmilliardär Elon Musk und die rechtsgerichtete #HeritageFoundation gehen immer aggressiver gegen die freie Online-Enzyklopädie vor. ...
Dies konstatiert die amerikanische Software-Entwicklerin und Wikipedianerin #MollyWhite. Sie hat sich in einem Anfang Jahr veröffentlichten Beitrag mit den Vorgängen rund um #Musk und #Wikipedia befasst.
Musks erste Beschwerden richteten sich gegen seine eigene Wikipedia-Biografie, die ihn zu seinem grossen Verdruss, aber völlig zutreffend, als «Frühinvestor» von #Tesla und nicht als Gründer bezeichnet.
Erst, nachdem es Musk und dessen Gefolge nicht gelungen war, seine eigene Geschichte auf Wikipedia umzuschreiben, weitete er seine Kritik auf allgemeinere Beschwerden aus, etwa über einen angeblich systematischen Links-Drall von Wikipedia.
Die Wut des Techmilliardärs gipfelte Ende 2024 in einer Flut von Angriffen, die darauf abzielten, seine 200 Millionen #X-Follower davon zu überzeugen, die #Wikimedia Foundation zu boykottieren."
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CW: Enshittification comes naturally from capital invested or *the leverage* from capital invested?
Cory Doctorow vs Molly White #Quotes
💬 #Enshittification comes naturally from capital invested or *the leverage* from capital invested?
(framed as "vs" just to get some reply points from people and potential answers about comment below...)
💬 Molly says
"Cory Doctorow provides his perspective on Bluesky, including on their recent funding round. I particularly like his point: “Plenty of people have commented that now that a VC is holding Bluesky's purse-strings, enshittification will surely follow (doubly so because the VC is called ‘Blockchain Capital,’ which, at this point, might as well be ‘Grifty Scam Caveat Emptor Capital’). But I don't agree with this at all. It's not outside capital that leads to enshittification, it's leverage that enshittifies a service.”📋 Website Post by @molly0xfff https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-69/
#CoryDoctorow vs #MollyWhite #Quote
❓ #enshittification = #capital #investment #funding ? ❓#Grifter #Scam #CaveatEmptor
#Capital #Capitalism #Bluesky
#Blockchain #BlockchainCapital⭐ Images Credit: Molly's image + my edit by enlarging objects + adding ".news" in bottom right
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In her latest Citation Needed post, Molly White addresses everyone who sits with the question, "What do I do now?"
She comes with a clear listing of What-To-Do points that will give many of us the idea: "Yes, I agree with that." or
"Yes, I can do that.".But most of all:
"Yes, I believe that that will lead to a better future." -
In her latest Citation Needed post, Molly White addresses everyone who sits with the question, "What do I do now?"
She comes with a clear listing of What-To-Do points that will give many of us the idea: "Yes, I agree with that." or
"Yes, I can do that.".But most of all:
"Yes, I believe that that will lead to a better future." -
In her latest Citation Needed post, Molly White addresses everyone who sits with the question, "What do I do now?"
She comes with a clear listing of What-To-Do points that will give many of us the idea: "Yes, I agree with that." or
"Yes, I can do that.".But most of all:
"Yes, I believe that that will lead to a better future." -
In her latest Citation Needed post, Molly White addresses everyone who sits with the question, "What do I do now?"
She comes with a clear listing of What-To-Do points that will give many of us the idea: "Yes, I agree with that." or
"Yes, I can do that.".But most of all:
"Yes, I believe that that will lead to a better future." -
In her latest Citation Needed post, Molly White addresses everyone who sits with the question, "What do I do now?"
She comes with a clear listing of What-To-Do points that will give many of us the idea: "Yes, I agree with that." or
"Yes, I can do that.".But most of all:
"Yes, I believe that that will lead to a better future." -
Do you know @molly0xfff?
You should. Watch her..
"Best known for puncturing blockchain/crypto hype with her Web3 Is Going Just Great project, writer/researcher #MollyWhite believes a better web is possible. Launched two years ago, her Citation Needed newsletter covers “tech world without all the boosterism,” while her latest project tracks the crypto industry’s attempts to influence the 2024 elections." -
@dangillmor
Waxy.org: "Molly White’s guide to migrating from #Substack to self-hosted #Ghost
not for the faint-hearted or non-technical, but gives her far more control than any other platform""I migrated Citation Needed from Substack to self-hosted Ghost. Here is exactly how I did that."
Molly White Jan 13, 2024
https://www.citationneeded.news/substack-to-self-hosted-ghost/
#MollyWhite #CitationNeededWikipedia: "the Foundation offers a paid platform for users who prefer a managed solution, as an alternative to self-hosting"
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Crypto critics file updated campaign finance complaint against Coinbase - The complainants and Coinbase disagree on whether a government contract ... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-critics-file-updated-complaint-against-coinbase #federalelectioncommission #campaignfinancelaws #governmentcontract #marshalsservice #publiccitizen #mollywhite #paulgrewal #coinbase
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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)
=========================================================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 🔁
========================================================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: @emilymbenderTimnit 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==========================
List not yet found on Fediverse ??
(as yet found by #FreeSchool 2024)
==========================*Sophie Wilson* #SophieWilson
#ARM #architecture inventorMary 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_NeumannHedy 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_OwickiLizy 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========================
(more as a list) and other info...
========================*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============================
Original #ENIAC programming team:
============================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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Notable Women In Computing
A Playing Cards Project:https://medium.com/csforall-stories/notable-women-in-computing-playing-cards-project-8c6739ce4494
========================================Association for Women in Computing (AWC)
www.awc-hq.org========================================
Klára Dán von Neumann (John von Neumann's wife)
...MORE INFO...
========================================Considered to be one of the first programmers:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kl%C3%A1ra_D%C3%A1n_von_NeumannShe 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=====================================
Computer History Museum’s "Hall of Fellows"
includes many of the women mentioned + more!
=====================================https://computerhistory.org/hall-of-fellows/
⬇️ EXAMPLE SEARCH
= Adele Goldstine #AdeleGoldstine https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/oralhistories/?s=Adele+Goldbergaardvark @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...
=======================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_ConwayThe 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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🚀 Boost / Copy / Study for resilience / reference / backup.
============================================#Science #Engineering #Computing #Computers #Engineer #Women #Inventors #Creators #Hackers #Pioneers #Programmers #Researchers #Research #Founders #Professors
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CW: Women in Computing, Science, Engineering who contributed (Crediting the unmentioned and some still alive to praise!)...
=========================================================
INTRO (or skip to LIST) "We never talk about these women"... (Version 11)
=========================================================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!...
========================================================
🔁 ONE BIG *FEDIVERSE POST* TO BOOST / REPLY TO FOREVER 🔁
========================================================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!
=================================
=======LIST STARTS HERE==========
=================================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: @emilymbenderTimnit 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==========================
List not yet found on Fediverse ??
(as yet found by #FreeSchool 2024)
==========================*Sophie Wilson* #SophieWilson
#ARM #architecture inventorMary 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_NeumannHedy 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_OwickiLizy 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========================
(more as a list) and other info...
========================*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============================
Original #ENIAC programming team:
============================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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Notable Women In Computing
A Playing Cards Project:https://medium.com/csforall-stories/notable-women-in-computing-playing-cards-project-8c6739ce4494
========================================Association for Women in Computing (AWC)
www.awc-hq.org========================================
Klára Dán von Neumann (John von Neumann's wife)
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========================================Considered to be one of the first programmers:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kl%C3%A1ra_D%C3%A1n_von_NeumannShe 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=====================================
Computer History Museum’s "Hall of Fellows"
includes many of the women mentioned + more!
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⬇️ EXAMPLE SEARCH
= Adele Goldstine #AdeleGoldstine https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/oralhistories/?s=Adele+Goldbergaardvark @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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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_ConwayThe 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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Molly White posted a new episode of Citation Needed.
FRAUD & DECEIT
Besides an interesting read, she continued listing recent trials and convictions in the crypto world.I am always surprised by the sheer number of convictions in the crypto industry and the enormous amounts involved.
It really seems like a world where everybody realizes that they deal with potential criminals but can't resist the attraction of free money and get cheated.
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Molly's scalpel always produces detailed, factual and enjoyable reads.
This time, it is about the book in which Chris Dixon tries to sell us on a blockchain-powered Internet.
The people at Andreessen Horowitz have long lost their origin of doing something for the common good and replaced it by blatantly tricking people into becoming more dependent on the companies they invest in.
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@lumiukko @jonno @molly0xfff @tante
Vielen herzlichen Dank für den Hinweis, bin begeistert von der Aufklärungs-Arbeit von #MollyWhite ! ☺️🙏👍
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The #VentureCapitalist's dilemma - #MollyWhite
"Recent weeks have drawn a bold underline beneath what has been clear to many for a long time: that those controlling massive amounts of #capital and #power in our #society are not the smartest, or most level-headed, or most altruistic among us. #VentureCapital may be the best way to serve the interests of capital, but we need to consider alternative models that prioritize the interests of people."
https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/the-venture-capitalists-dilemma
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➡️ @molly0xfff (White's account)
➡️ @web3isgreat (project account)
The project's website is at https://web3isgoinggreat.com and features a useful interactive timeline of the news items.
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