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Re:Lynn Conway Has Died by CalChris on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @10:25PM (#40653863)
Lynn Conway, Dynamic Instruction Scheduling

https://web.archive.org/web/20150814232249/https://ai.eecs.u...

This report was issued February 23, 1966 which was close to a year before Tomasulo's An Efficient Algorithm for Exploiting Multiple Arithmetic Units.

I'd never heard of this report before today. It isn't taught in Berkeley's CS152/252. It's not mentioned in Hennessy and Patterson's books.

Re:Lynn Conway Has Died by ziyao_w on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @10:45PM (#40653966)
Wow, 4 citations. I feel happy for Lynn that she ended up doing a lot more impressive work, but definitely this should be restored to its proper place in the history of computing.

Something doesn't quite compute here though - according to Wikipedia after she announced her intent to transition Lynn was fired in 1968, but this paper was from 1966 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40650635 also does not have any information. Maybe at least someone shielded her for some time?

Also Francis Allen seems to have worked on the same project at IBM - she mentioned there were works by other women that other people (Turning award winners IIRC) took credit of - could Lynn's work be one of those? Really hope Fran and Lynn would at least knew each other.

Re:Lynn Conway Has Died by gammarator on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @10:59PM (#40654018)
This article says that she corrected her name when she posted the scanned paper to her website around 2000.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-nov-19-tm-54188...

Re:Lynn Conway Has Died by ziyao_w on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @08:05AM (#40657121)
lol thanks! Read probably 80% of the article and missed this:

"Almost before knowing it, she had decided. Lynn copied the most important papers. After carefully eradicating her old name and inserting the new on every title page[...]"