My #CompSci lecturers often dropped the names of inventors. But only if they were men. We talked about Gordon Moore, obviously Turing 🏳️‍🌈 was mentioned, about Don Knuth, about Chomsky etc.

But when we discussed the #ARM architecture, we never talked about the inventor *Sophie Wilson*. We also never talked about *Mary Ann Horton*, despite her work on `vi` and `terminfo` -- but of course we mentioned Bill Joy. We discussed the Spanning Tree Protocol, but not its inventor *Radia Perlman*. We have the whole field of #SoftwareEngineering, but who coined the term? *Margaret Hamilton*. We mentioned the ENIAC and v. Neumann, but failed to talk about *Adele Goldstine*. We discussed the origins of #OOP and #Smalltalk but ignored *Adele Goldberg*. We programmed in #Assembly but never talked about the woman who wrote the first #Assembler, *Kathleen Booth*. And don't get me started on #Safari and our sweet @lisamelton <3 Or any of the (incomplete list) of *Ida Rhodes, Carol Shaw, Shafi Goldwasser, Edith Clarke, Annie Easley, Joyce Little*, ...

And today? Let's talk about our favorite trans woman CPU designer, Lynn Conway.

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@ljrk @lisamelton … and there are so many more, that i hope you dont mind me mentioning as they have had a personal impact for me -Barbara Liskov, Jeannette Wing, Pamela Zave, Muffy Calder, Ursula Martin…

@jpaulgibson @lisamelton To the contrary, keep 'em coming, we need more visibility and I don't know them all. There are soooo many!

@ljrk @jpaulgibson @lisamelton

Opens that one specific file labelled "for the next it guy telling you there never were women in it", appends list.

@kathol @jpaulgibson @lisamelton You're welcome -- and please share anyone I've missed! :)