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Title: Top 20 Things That Owe Their Existence to Queers
Post by: Shana A on September 12, 2011, 07:08:29 AM
Post by: Shana A on September 12, 2011, 07:08:29 AM
Top 20 Things That Owe Their Existence to Queers
Filed By Guest Blogger | September 09, 2011 8:00 AM
http://www.bilerico.com/2011/09/top_20_things_that_owe_their_existence_to_queers.php (http://www.bilerico.com/2011/09/top_20_things_that_owe_their_existence_to_queers.php)
Editors' Note: Guest blogger Jeremy Redlien is the author/creator of the blog Queering the Closet and holds a B.S. in Philosophy, with a minor in Mathematics from SUNY Oneonta.
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10 - The Computer
Queer to thank: Alan Turring
Honorable Mentions: Lynn Conway, Mary Ann Horton, Sophie Wilson, Audrey Tang, Kate Craig-Wood
Lynn Conway is a computer engineer who first worked at IBM, but was fired in 1968 when she transitioned into a woman. She is credited with having developed numerous computer science innovations, many whose names make no sense to me, such as generalised dynamic instruction handling and Mead & Conway revolution in VLSI design.
Mary Ann Horton is a computer scientist and trans activist whose innovations aided the developement of Usenet and later the Internet itself. Sophie Wilson is a trans woman who designed the Acorn Micro Computer. Audrey Tang, who transitioned from a man to a woman in 2005, is a Taiwanese free software programmer, who taught herself Perl at age 12 and is considered to be one of the "ten greats of Taiwanese computing." Kate Craig-Wood is a British innovater, co-founder and managing director of Memset, the first British carbon neutral ISP. She is a proponent of greater energy efficiency in electronic technology. Kate Craig-Wood transitioned in 2005.
Filed By Guest Blogger | September 09, 2011 8:00 AM
http://www.bilerico.com/2011/09/top_20_things_that_owe_their_existence_to_queers.php (http://www.bilerico.com/2011/09/top_20_things_that_owe_their_existence_to_queers.php)
Editors' Note: Guest blogger Jeremy Redlien is the author/creator of the blog Queering the Closet and holds a B.S. in Philosophy, with a minor in Mathematics from SUNY Oneonta.
[...]
10 - The Computer
Queer to thank: Alan Turring
Honorable Mentions: Lynn Conway, Mary Ann Horton, Sophie Wilson, Audrey Tang, Kate Craig-Wood
Lynn Conway is a computer engineer who first worked at IBM, but was fired in 1968 when she transitioned into a woman. She is credited with having developed numerous computer science innovations, many whose names make no sense to me, such as generalised dynamic instruction handling and Mead & Conway revolution in VLSI design.
Mary Ann Horton is a computer scientist and trans activist whose innovations aided the developement of Usenet and later the Internet itself. Sophie Wilson is a trans woman who designed the Acorn Micro Computer. Audrey Tang, who transitioned from a man to a woman in 2005, is a Taiwanese free software programmer, who taught herself Perl at age 12 and is considered to be one of the "ten greats of Taiwanese computing." Kate Craig-Wood is a British innovater, co-founder and managing director of Memset, the first British carbon neutral ISP. She is a proponent of greater energy efficiency in electronic technology. Kate Craig-Wood transitioned in 2005.
Title: Re: Top 20 Things That Owe Their Existence to Queers
Post by: Rain Dog on December 04, 2011, 03:55:56 PM
Post by: Rain Dog on December 04, 2011, 03:55:56 PM
Not only did Sophie Wilson design the Acorn System 1, she is also the woman behind the ARM (http://www.arm.com/) instruction set! It's probably the most widely used microprocessor in the world, anything from my iPhone to my printer to my wireless router has one.
Also ARM is a bi-endian architecture! :D
And most email is sent through a gay program!
Also ARM is a bi-endian architecture! :D
And most email is sent through a gay program!
Quote from: Eric Allman, author of sendmailThere is some sort of perverse pleasure in knowing that it's basically impossible to send a piece of hate mail through the Internet without its being touched by a gay program. That's kind of funny.
Title: Re: Top 20 Things That Owe Their Existence to Queers
Post by: Mahsa Tezani on December 04, 2011, 05:24:35 PM
Post by: Mahsa Tezani on December 04, 2011, 05:24:35 PM
A transwoman that works in computers....
ALERT THE PRESSES!!!!
ALERT THE PRESSES!!!!
Title: Re: Top 20 Things That Owe Their Existence to Queers
Post by: Sailor_Saturn on December 04, 2011, 08:21:08 PM
Post by: Sailor_Saturn on December 04, 2011, 08:21:08 PM
#17: If we're going to associate Keynesian Economics with what President Bush/Obama did, then probably what's being talked about is that handout to the American public and not the bank bailouts. The bank bailouts smack of Supply-Side, not Demand-Side.
#14: President Lincoln was gay?!!! Not what I was told! O_O
#6: AHHHHHHH! I absolutely adore Sapho's work! Great mention!
#1: Democracy, eh? I can see that for sure.
#14: President Lincoln was gay?!!! Not what I was told! O_O
#6: AHHHHHHH! I absolutely adore Sapho's work! Great mention!
#1: Democracy, eh? I can see that for sure.
Title: Re: Top 20 Things That Owe Their Existence to Queers
Post by: SandraJane on December 04, 2011, 09:52:20 PM
Post by: SandraJane on December 04, 2011, 09:52:20 PM
Alan Turing...The German Enigma Crypto Machine, turning point of WWII.
Title: Re: Top 20 Things That Owe Their Existence to Queers
Post by: Mahsa Tezani on December 04, 2011, 10:53:16 PM
Post by: Mahsa Tezani on December 04, 2011, 10:53:16 PM
Quote from: SandraJane on December 04, 2011, 09:52:20 PM
Alan Turing...The German Enigma Crypto Machine, turning point of WWII.
Crypto machine...that sounds scary. Like it generates zombies,...
Title: Re: Top 20 Things That Owe Their Existence to Queers
Post by: Anatta on December 04, 2011, 10:54:16 PM
Post by: Anatta on December 04, 2011, 10:54:16 PM
Kia Ora,
::) Let's see........ ::) The theater, the arts....
Metta Zenda :)
::) Let's see........ ::) The theater, the arts....
Metta Zenda :)
Title: Re: Top 20 Things That Owe Their Existence to Queers
Post by: Mahsa Tezani on December 04, 2011, 11:28:15 PM
Post by: Mahsa Tezani on December 04, 2011, 11:28:15 PM
Quote from: Zenda on December 04, 2011, 10:54:16 PM
Kia Ora,
::) Let's see........ ::) The theater, the arts....
Metta Zenda :)
Title: Re: Top 20 Things That Owe Their Existence to Queers
Post by: Anatta on December 04, 2011, 11:40:55 PM
Post by: Anatta on December 04, 2011, 11:40:55 PM
Kia Ora M,
::) According to the 'outside' world... LGBTQ = We are 'all' queer........
::) A note on the term queer...In the UK queer also means[well it did when I was growing up there] sick/ill...in other words if a person wasn't feeling well, they were feeling a bit 'queer' ;) ;D
Metta Zenda :)
::) According to the 'outside' world... LGBTQ = We are 'all' queer........
::) A note on the term queer...In the UK queer also means[well it did when I was growing up there] sick/ill...in other words if a person wasn't feeling well, they were feeling a bit 'queer' ;) ;D
Metta Zenda :)
Title: Re: Top 20 Things That Owe Their Existence to Queers
Post by: Rain Dog on December 05, 2011, 06:52:15 AM
Post by: Rain Dog on December 05, 2011, 06:52:15 AM
Quote from: Zenda on December 04, 2011, 11:40:55 PM
::) According to the 'outside' world... LGBTQ = We are 'all' queer........
That's true. It bugged me for a while, but it's much better to pool our resources. What's good for one letter is good for the whole initialism.
Quote from: Mahsa the disco shark on December 04, 2011, 05:24:35 PMThere is working in computers and there's creating a whole industry. Most people don't know about the Acorn RISC Machine (ARM), but they already have several of them in their homes. These are my ARM devices that I know of:
A transwoman that works in computers....
- iPhone
- DSL modem
- DSLR camera
- Laser printer
- Palm
- Apple Newton
(I didn't check my fridge and microwave, I assume they have 8-bit computers instead. I'm really pissed off at the microcontroller in my kitchen fan because it would have been just as easy to use a 4-bit counter, a 555 timer and a few passive component for fan control, but that's actually more expensive than stuffing a whole damn computer on a chip in there)