Megan Smith. American engineer Megan J. Smith (born October 21, 1964)[1] is an American engineer and technologist. She was the third Chief Technology Officer of the United States (U.S. CTO) and Assistant to the President, serving under President Barack Obama. She was previously a vice president at Google, leading new business development and early-stage partnerships across Google's global engineering and product teams at Google for nine years, was general manager of Google.org,[2] a vice president briefly at Google[x] where she co-created WomenTechmakers,[3] is the former CEO of Planet Out and worked on early smartphones at General Magic.[4][5] She serves on the boards of MIT[6] and Vital Voices, was a member of the USAID Advisory Committee on Voluntary Aid[7] and co-founded the Malala Fund.[8][9] Today Smith is the CEO and Founder of shift7.
On September 4, 2014, she was named as the third (and first female) U.S. Early life and education[edit] Career[edit] Recognition[edit] Personal life[edit] Out In Tech. Home | Maven Youth. Welcome - LGBTQ in Technology. Who’s invited? Anybody who identifies as lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, non-binary, gender non-conforming, queer, and those questioning whether they fit into those or any of the many other sub-genres of people who are not generally considered both “straight” and cis. Friends and allies: we appreciate your support, but this space is for us.
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She was the lead plaintiff in the 2013 Supreme Court of the United States case United States v. Windsor, which overturned Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act and was considered a landmark legal victory for the same-sex marriage movement in the United States. The Obama administration and federal agencies extended rights, privileges and benefits to married same-sex couples because of the decision. Early life and education[edit] Windsor was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to James and Celia Schlain, a Russian Jewish immigrant family of modest means. Career[edit] While attending New York University, Windsor worked for the university's math department, entering data into its UNIVAC. Personal life[edit] In 1977, Spyer was diagnosed with progressive multiple sclerosis. Activism[edit] Apple Leadership - Tim Cook. Biography. Mary L. Gray is Senior Principal Researcher at M icrosoft Research and Faculty Associate at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society.
She maintains a faculty position in the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering with affiliations in Anthropology and Gender Studies at Indiana University. Mary, an anthropologist and media scholar by training, focuses on how people’s everyday uses of technologies transform labor, identity, and human rights. Mary earned her PhD in Communication from the University of California at San Diego in 2004, under the direction of Susan Leigh Star. In 2020, Mary was named a MacArthur Fellow for her contributions to anthropology and the study of technology, digital economies, and society. In 2019, Mary co-authored (with computer scientist Siddharth Suri), Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass. Peter Landin. British computer scientist (1930–2009) Peter John Landin (5 June 1930 – 3 June 2009[1][2]) was a British computer scientist. He was one of the first to realise that the lambda calculus could be used to model a programming language, an insight that is essential to development of both functional programming and denotational semantics.
Academic[edit] He was active in the definition of the ALGOL programming language. He is listed among those who attended the November 1959 conference in Paris,[6] and the 1962 conference,[7][8] and cited by Tony Hoare as one of the people who taught him ALGOL 60 and hence facilitated his expression of powerful recursive algorithms: "Around Easter 1961, a course on ALGOL 60 was offered in Brighton, England, with Peter Naur, Edsger W. Dijkstra, and Peter Landin as tutors. ... A possible first step in the research program is 1700 doctoral theses called "A Correspondence between x and Church's λ-notation. " Political[edit] Selected publications[edit] See also[edit] Christopher Strachey. British computer scientist Christopher S. Strachey (; 16 November 1916 - 18 May 1975) was a British computer scientist.[1][2][3] He was one of the founders of denotational semantics, and a pioneer in programming language design and computer time-sharing.[4] He has also been credited as possibly being the first developer of a video game.[5] He was a member of the Strachey family, prominent in government, arts, administration, and academia.
Early life and education[edit] Christopher Strachey was born on 16 November 1916 to Oliver Strachey and Rachel (Ray) Costelloe in Hampstead, England. Oliver Strachey was the son of Richard Strachey and the great grandson of Sir Henry Strachey, 1st Baronet. His elder sister was the writer Barbara Strachey. Career[edit] Unable to continue his education, Christopher joined Standard Telephones and Cables (STC) as a research physicist. Draughts on a storage CRT, 1952 In 1962, while remaining a consultant, he accepted a position at Cambridge University. Lynn Conway. American computer scientist and electrical engineer (born 1938) Lynn Ann Conway (born January 2, 1938)[3][4] is an American computer scientist, electrical engineer, inventor, and transgender activist.[5] Conway is notable for a number of pioneering achievements.
She worked at IBM in the 1960s and is credited with the invention of generalized dynamic instruction handling, a key advance used in out-of-order execution, used by most modern computer processors to improve performance. She is also widely-known for the Mead-Conway VLSI chip design revolution in very large scale integrated (VLSI) microchip design. Early life and education[edit] Early research at IBM[edit] Gender transition[edit] While struggling with life in a male role,[19] Conway had been married to a woman and had two children. Although she had hoped to be allowed to transition on the job, IBM fired Conway in 1968 after she revealed her intention to transition.[20] IBM apologized for this in 2020.[21] Transgender activism[edit] Pride Summit 2022 - Lesbians Who Tech & Allies. Sophie Wilson. English computer scientist Sophie Mary Wilson CBE FRS FREng DistFBCS[5][4] (born June 1957) is an English computer scientist, who helped design the BBC Micro and ARM architecture.
Wilson first designed a microcomputer during a break from studies at Selwyn College, Cambridge. She subsequently joined Acorn Computers and was instrumental in designing the BBC Micro, including the BBC BASIC programming language whose development she led for the next 15 years. She first began designing the ARM reduced instruction set computer (RISC) in 1983, which entered production two years later. It became popular in embedded systems and is now the most widely used processor architecture in smartphones. Wilson is currently a director at the technology conglomerate Broadcom Inc.[6][7] In 2011, she was listed in Maximum PC as number 8 in an article titled "The 15 Most Important Women in Tech History".[8] She was made a Commander of the British Empire in 2019. Early life and education[edit] Career[edit] Alan Turing. English computer scientist (1912–1954) Alan Mathison Turing (; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist.[5] He was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general-purpose computer.[6][7][8] Turing is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science.[9] In 1952, Turing was prosecuted for homosexual acts.
He accepted hormone treatment, a procedure commonly referred to as chemical castration, as an alternative to prison. Turing died on 7 June 1954, aged 41, from cyanide poisoning. Turing left an extensive legacy in mathematics and computing which today is recognised more widely, with statues and many things named after him, including an annual award for computing innovation. Early life and education Family School.