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Re:Katie Bouman, the computer scientist behind the first bla... by scott_s on Thursday April 11, 2019 @07:22AM (#19633121)
Papers are routinely credited to their first author. Everyone understand the co-authors also took part. She also clearly credits the rest of the team in the posted BBC article.
Re:Katie Bouman, the computer scientist behind the first bla... by cs02rm0 on Thursday April 11, 2019 @07:34AM (#19633202)
She does clearly credit the rest of the team, which is admirable as she's also clearly been key to this piece of work.

Somehow though my facebook feed is already littered with images saying she was single-handedly responsible and no one's talking about her.

https://bit.ly/2Gkfk7f

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Re:Katie Bouman, the computer scientist behind the first bla... by black_puppydog on Thursday April 11, 2019 @08:12AM (#19633550)
I guess that's gonna happen once these things become so commonplace as not to qualify to be "news". So... they're working on it I guess :D

To clarify: I don't doubt women can do science, just empirically, they don't get to do it as often (at this level) as men.

Re:Katie Bouman, the computer scientist behind the first bla... by njepa on Thursday April 11, 2019 @08:57AM (#19633948)
There is actually nothing really in the BBC story about being a women other than in the context of her getting attention on twitter, but barely that. I think whoever changed the title might have been confused as well. It doesn't refer to woman as gender but woman as subject as in e.g. "the man walked his dog".
Re:Katie Bouman, the computer scientist behind the first bla... by scott_s on Thursday April 11, 2019 @09:40AM (#19634363)
They are not doing that.
Re:Katie Bouman, the computer scientist behind the first bla... by iron0013 on Thursday April 11, 2019 @09:48AM (#19634446)
you seem pretty eager to get upset about something!