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It is all about how necessary a feature of a language is. Several computer scientists have also played a major role helping transform both views and the law. 1981): Taiwanese computer programmer

Born in Taiwan, Audrey Tang is a self-taught programmer who was learning Perl at the age of 12, launching a startup at 15, and already working in Silicon Valley by 19.

She then co-designed the chip (the ARM processor) that is in almost all mobile phones as well as in tablets, TV’s and almost every other digital gadget in our homes… (read on)

Edith Windsor: gay marriage

Edie Schlain Windsor, who was a senior systems engineer at IBM and founding president of a software consulting company, led the landmark Supreme Court Case (United States versus Windsor) that led to gay marriage becoming legal in the US….

While at IBM she transitioned from male to female, and was subsequently fired by the company in 1968 after revealing her intention to live as a woman. In 1874 she presented papers on topics such as partial differential equations, the dynamics of the rings of Saturn, and elliptic integrals. (read on)

Ludwig Wittgenstein: tautology and truth tables

Ludwig Wittgenstein is one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century.

It turns out that logic is key to that. His interest was in truth and he made contributions to logical thinking that are a foundation of computing.

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Horton is a transgender woman who, in addition to her contributions to technology, has also made significant contributions to transgender rights in the workplace. Turing was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most important people of the 20th century.

Christopher Strachey (1916–1975): British computer scientist

Christopher Strachey was born in Hampstead, England, and his father worked alongside Alan Turing as a cryptographer at Bletchly Park during World War II.

Strachey studied mathematics and physics at Kings College, Cambridge, where he suffered a nervous breakdown during his third year (which his sister attributed to his struggles to come to terms with his homosexuality). He also wrote one of the first computer music programs, which played “Baa Baa Black Sheep” on the Ferranti Mark 1. 1929): IBM engineer and American LGBTQI+ rights activist

Edith “Edie” Windsor is best known as a gay rights activist who was the lead plaintiff in the landmark Supreme Court Case United States v.

1938): American computer scientist

Lynn Conway is a pioneer of microelectronics chip design with an extraordinary life story. What’s less well known is that Windsor was a computer programmer and an engineer, working with the UNIVAC at Combustion Engineering, Inc., and later at IBM in the 1950s and ’60s, eventually becoming a senior systems engineer.

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David Bowie: creative computing

David Bowie co-wrote an early computing tool to help creativity, based on an algorithm he used to help write lyrics… He also played enigmatic electronic engineer Nikola Tesla in the film The Prestige (read on)

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A transgender woman, Tang currently devotes most of her energy to political activism and social causes.

If you are interested in learning more about this topic, be sure to check out the fascinating online series A Queer History of Computing by Jacob Gaboury, who is an Assistant Professor of Digital Media & Visual Culture at Stony Brook University.

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We’ve listed them chronologically by birthdate.

Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850-1891): Russian mathematician

Born in Moscow, Sofia Kovalevskaya was the first major Russian female mathematician, the first woman to work as an editor for a scientific journal, and a contributor to the development of the Cauchy–Kovalevskaya theorem. In the early 1970s he became involved with the Gay Liberation Front (GLF), and in the later part of his life became more and more devoted to gay rights activism.

Edith Windsor (b.

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Programming Pride: 10 LGBTQI+ Pioneers of Computer Science

In honor of Gay Pride and the anniversary of Stonewall, we‘re highlighting a group of pioneers of computer science: people who were (or are) lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender.