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If this is verified, I think a black band is 100% warranted. As I understand it, she was a real innovator in VLSI, which I think we all agree is somewhat import
by minedwiz 2y ago
If this is verified, I think a black band is 100% warranted. As I understand it, she was a real innovator in VLSI, which I think we all agree is somewhat important :)
EDIT: GG, the black band appeared as I sent this
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- metalliqaz 2y agoomg is that what that is? all this time I thought the CSS was screwed up on my browser. I had assumed it all my anti-ad/privacy plugins.
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- breadbasket 2y agoThat's a bit rude isn't it? Please consider instead choosing not to reply if you don't want to discuss a topic.
- bigstrat2003 2y agoThat is completely uncalled for and a blatant violation of the rules. Not cool, not in the least.
- steveklabnik 2y agoIt is also "not cool, to say the least" to post transphobia in the thread celebrating the life of a recently deceased trans person. breadbasket is communicating the same sentiment as "fuck off" without using those words.
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- skyyler 2y agoI told you it was considered rude to use that term and you threw it at me again, seemingly on purpose. I don't think you are engaging in a good faith discussion and I wish you a day as pleasant as you are.
- ljsprague 2y agoWhat did Jonathan Payne say?
- minedwiz 2y agoQuite disappointing to hear; I know the feeling on discovering unfortunate things coworkers believe :(. I can scarcely imagine the feeling of seeing real progress happen on trans acceptance, only to then see a blowback coming, right at the end of your life. Glad she will be remembered positively.
- worik 2y ago> seeing real progress happen on trans acceptance, only to then see a blowback coming, right at the end of your life. Yes It is surreal I do not understand why people care so much. Your gender is none of my concern It is so hard, it seems, to take people as you find them
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- sokoloff 2y agoAnyone can sue anyone for nearly anything. Whether they can win or not is the more relevant question and it seems like Don has evidence that he's comfortable keeping in reserve and would prefer to call out poor behavior and fade the risk of a frivolous lawsuit rather than keeping quiet and safe.
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- fragmede 2y ago> all people deserve respect simply for being human, they shouldn't have to invent both superscalar architecture and VLSI design in one lifetime just to be treated politely. QFT
- adrian_b 2y agoWhile her contributions to the VLSI design methodologies are the best known and the most influential, that is because at that time she worked in academia, in plain sight. She had another extremely important contribution much earlier, when working at IBM, at the Advanced Computer System project. She invented the first methods that could be used for designing a CPU that can initiate multiple instructions in the same clock cycle and also out of order in comparison with the program. Such a CPU will be named only 2 decades later as a superscalar CPU (also inside IBM and by people familiar with the old ACS project). (The earlier CDC 6600 could initiate only 1 instruction per clock cycle, in program order, even if after initiation it could execute the instructions concurrently and complete them out-of-order, depending on the availability of execution units.) Her work on superscalar CPUs did not become known until much later, because it was written in confidential internal reports about the ACS project, which was canceled, unlike the later and much less comprehensive work of Tomasulo, which was published in a journal and which was used in a commercial product, so it became the reference on out-of-order execution in the open literature, for several decades. At the time when she worked at IBM, her legal gender was still male, and when she announced her intention of gender change, she was fired by IBM, which is likely to have contributed to the obscurity that covered her ACS work at IBM. Her "Dynamic Instruction Scheduling" report from 1966 is mandatory reading for anyone who is interested about the evolution of the superscalar and out-of-order CPUs. https://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/ACS/Archive/ACSarchive.html https://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/ACS/Archive/ACSarchi...
- nvarsj 2y agoFascinating. It wasn't long ago I did a high performance computer architecture grad class. They covered Tomasulo but no mention of Conway's contributions. TIL.
- altairprime 2y agoYou might also, then, appreciate her IEEE article introducing the Conway Effect: https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/co/2018/10/mco2018100066/17D45WXIkDI https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/co/2018/10/mco2018100...