An Unexpected Woman: The Inside Story Behind the VLSI RevolutionLynn Conway
An Unexpected Woman:
The Inside Story Behind the VLSI Revolution*
Lynn Conway, Professor of EECS, Emerita
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
In 2015, US CTO Megan Smith raised profound questions about women’s contributions in science, engineering and math being erased from history.
In this talk we explore a case study of such erasure, and surface a counter-intuitive conjecture about the underlying causes and effects.
*Keynote Lecture, LGBT Pride Month, Rackspace Inc., Windcrest, TX, June 28, 2016;
Based on a Lecture at the National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, June 10, 2015.
http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/Memoirs/Talks/Rackspace/2016_Rackspace_Pride_Talk.pptx
A presentation given at the conference on international media at Fachhochschule St Pölten in Austria on 25 March 2013. It's inspired by and based on this RSA Animate video of a talk by Manuel Lima:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJmGrNdJ5Gw
Flupa UX Days 2018 | Sara Wachter-Boettcher (EN)Flupa
DESIGNING INCLUSIVE PRODUCTS
Conférence de Sara Wachter-Boettcher
Même si nos projets commencent toujours avec de très bonnes intentions, on se retrouve souvent avec des produits pilotés par des stéréotypes toxiques qui sont véhiculés dans la culture tech : des balances connectées qui déduisent que tout le monde veut perdre du poids, des formulaires qui ne correspondent pas aux personnes transgenres, des bots lecteurs de curriculum qui désavantagent les femmes,les systèmes de reconnaissance faciale qui n’arrivent pas à identifier les personnes de couleur…
Aujourd’hui, la technologie a pris une place centrale dans le quotidien de nos utilisateurs jusqu’à aller dans le moindre recoin de leur intimité, nous avons notre part de responsabilité par nos décisions lorsque ces produits incluent ou rejettent des utilisateurs. Durant cette keynote, Sara Wachter-Boettcher expliquera comment la culture de l’industrie tech est en train de créer des produits qui exploitent des préjugés, manipulent et blessent des utilisateurs, mais nuisent également à la démocratie. Elle nous présentera également le comportement à adopter pour éviter de créer ce type de produit : comment concevoir des hypothèses dans notre processus de travail, vérifier que les décisions prises autour du produit soient correctes auprès de différents utilisateurs et différentes situations, avoir des discussions avec ses équipes et les entreprises et poursuivre une démarche de conception plus éthique et inclusive pour notre industrie.
Plus d'infos sur : uxday.flupa.eu/designing-inclusive-products
Crazy Futures aka Rx for Leadership Scotomas (why plausibility is maladaptive)Wendy Schultz
Short slidedeck on overcoming mental boundaries and expanding conceptual horizons in considering what possible futures may emerge, as a means to avoiding decision blindspots and black elephants / black swans.
Future Outlook on Urban CompetitivenessWendy Schultz
The narrative of my 22 June 2010 presentation to the Global Innovation Forum in Seoul, sponsored by the Korea Economic Daily. Please refer to PDF of slidedeck, above.
Crazy Futures I an exploration on the necessity of pushing your thinking past...Wendy Schultz
Don't merely consider what you think is plausible - recognise that you may not have the whole story on emerging changes, and that what's emerging may shatter the bounds of what's currently 'plausible'. Get creative, test assumptions, test values and worldviews.
An Unexpected Woman: The Inside Story Behind the VLSI RevolutionLynn Conway
An Unexpected Woman:
The Inside Story Behind the VLSI Revolution*
Lynn Conway, Professor of EECS, Emerita
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
In 2015, US CTO Megan Smith raised profound questions about women’s contributions in science, engineering and math being erased from history.
In this talk we explore a case study of such erasure, and surface a counter-intuitive conjecture about the underlying causes and effects.
*Keynote Lecture, LGBT Pride Month, Rackspace Inc., Windcrest, TX, June 28, 2016;
Based on a Lecture at the National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, June 10, 2015.
http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/Memoirs/Talks/Rackspace/2016_Rackspace_Pride_Talk.pptx
A presentation given at the conference on international media at Fachhochschule St Pölten in Austria on 25 March 2013. It's inspired by and based on this RSA Animate video of a talk by Manuel Lima:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJmGrNdJ5Gw
Flupa UX Days 2018 | Sara Wachter-Boettcher (EN)Flupa
DESIGNING INCLUSIVE PRODUCTS
Conférence de Sara Wachter-Boettcher
Même si nos projets commencent toujours avec de très bonnes intentions, on se retrouve souvent avec des produits pilotés par des stéréotypes toxiques qui sont véhiculés dans la culture tech : des balances connectées qui déduisent que tout le monde veut perdre du poids, des formulaires qui ne correspondent pas aux personnes transgenres, des bots lecteurs de curriculum qui désavantagent les femmes,les systèmes de reconnaissance faciale qui n’arrivent pas à identifier les personnes de couleur…
Aujourd’hui, la technologie a pris une place centrale dans le quotidien de nos utilisateurs jusqu’à aller dans le moindre recoin de leur intimité, nous avons notre part de responsabilité par nos décisions lorsque ces produits incluent ou rejettent des utilisateurs. Durant cette keynote, Sara Wachter-Boettcher expliquera comment la culture de l’industrie tech est en train de créer des produits qui exploitent des préjugés, manipulent et blessent des utilisateurs, mais nuisent également à la démocratie. Elle nous présentera également le comportement à adopter pour éviter de créer ce type de produit : comment concevoir des hypothèses dans notre processus de travail, vérifier que les décisions prises autour du produit soient correctes auprès de différents utilisateurs et différentes situations, avoir des discussions avec ses équipes et les entreprises et poursuivre une démarche de conception plus éthique et inclusive pour notre industrie.
Plus d'infos sur : uxday.flupa.eu/designing-inclusive-products
Crazy Futures aka Rx for Leadership Scotomas (why plausibility is maladaptive)Wendy Schultz
Short slidedeck on overcoming mental boundaries and expanding conceptual horizons in considering what possible futures may emerge, as a means to avoiding decision blindspots and black elephants / black swans.
Future Outlook on Urban CompetitivenessWendy Schultz
The narrative of my 22 June 2010 presentation to the Global Innovation Forum in Seoul, sponsored by the Korea Economic Daily. Please refer to PDF of slidedeck, above.
Crazy Futures I an exploration on the necessity of pushing your thinking past...Wendy Schultz
Don't merely consider what you think is plausible - recognise that you may not have the whole story on emerging changes, and that what's emerging may shatter the bounds of what's currently 'plausible'. Get creative, test assumptions, test values and worldviews.
Luke Robert Mason delivering a talk on using virtual persons as tools for understanding the social layer of the web 2.0.
LSEsu AMP
The Annual AMP Conference: Surviving in a Digital World
Tuesday March 6th 2012
Weavrs are virtual bodies of information, which re-purpose and remix social media streams in order to generate their own personae from the digital detritus of our online lives. Using Web APIs and a custom filter design (a mix of narrative techniques and statistical probability) these autonomous, semi-intelligent software agents have become useful collaborators for market researchers, writers and advertising agencies. By giving brand managers and researchers the ability to create quick, virtual embodiments of their target demographics, Weavrs offer a unique method via which to navigate and author the narratives that emerge on the social web. When all marketing has ever asked of user experience is to make people into users. Phactory ask if, “Surely it’s easier just to make some users?”
Presentation at the Quantified Self Europe Conference 2014 in Amsterdam:
How does the practice of tracking, sharing, and using data for personal meaning challenge our ideas about human connection, ideas traditionally framed as oppositions between between "individuals" and "society."
Slides from a series of talks for the IET's IoT India Congress and some associated events - SRM Chennai, PES Bengaluru, Srishti Bengaluru. I used different subsets of the slides in each talk - this is the whole deck.
ARC 211: American Diversity and Design: Jackie NgJackie Ng
Responses to the online discussion questions in the Spring 2017 version of ARC 211 American Diversity and Design at the University at Buffalo – State University of New York
The information network created by Sir Tim Berners-Lee in 1990 to connect people to knowledge has become an important place to navigate who and what we know, as well as who we think we are. But how much of a revolution is it? This lecture will trace some of the most important developments in social uses of information technologies in order to ultimately argue that the Web does offer unprecedented opportunities to access information and galvanise communities of practice, but that the impact of this new medium will reflect an evolution rather than a revolution of communication practices.
And Then There Were None Essay. And Then There Were None Essay Free Essay Exa...Donna Baun
And Then There Were None Essay Free Essay Example. And Then There Were None (1945) - Movie Review / Film Essay. And Then There Were None. And Then There Were None Essay Sample | Blog. And then there were none essay prompts. and then there were none guilt essay. Chapter 2 And Then There Were None - YouTube. And Then There Were None Contemporary Classics Study Questions - Study .... And Then There Were None, by Agatha Christie - GCSE English - Marked by .... And Then There Were None Literary Analysis. And Then There Were None.. And Then There Were None Intro Presentation with Author Biography. And Then There Were None Essay – Telegraph. (PDF) “246247596248914102516… And Then There Were None”. "And Then There Were None" Book Review. Blore and then there were none descriptive essay. And Then There Were None Study Questions Answers - Study Poster. English 7 Essay And Then There Were None. 1000+ images about And then There were None on Pinterest | Lesson plans .... And Then There Were None Comprehension Guide by Teresa Buonomo | TpT. And then there were none essay questions - studyclix.web.fc2.com. And Then There Were None Chapters 1 and 2. And Then There Were None Study Guide. And Then There Were None | PDF | Leisure And Then There Were None Essay And Then There Were None Essay. And Then There Were None Essay Free Essay Example
ARC 211: American Diversity and Design: Ryan PhillipsRyan Phillips
The following presentation documents my responses to the online discussion questions in the Spring 2017 version of ARC 211 American Diversity and Design at the University at Buffalo – State University of New York
A summary of highlights from the CHI2011 conference (Computer Human Interaction) in Vancouver, Canada. This recap focuses on explorations in tangible interaction. The presentation was given internally at Smart Design on 5/30/2011. Enjoy!
Author: Mirko Presser
The Alexandra Institute
Contributors
Srdjan Krco (Dunavnet)
Tobias Kowatsch (University of St. Gallen)
Stefan Fischer (University of Luebeck)
Wolfgang Maas (Saarland University)
Sebastian Lange (Deloitte)
Francois Carrez (University of Surrey)
Bernard Hun (University of Surrey)
Richard Egan (Thales UK, Research and Technology)
Jan Höller (Ericsson AB)
Alessandro Bassi (Alessandro Bassi Consulting)
Stephan Haller (Vigience AG)
Martin Fiedler (Fraunhofer IML)
Luis Muñoz (University of Cantabria)
Louise Lønborg Rustrup (The Alexandra Institute)
João Fernandes (The Alexandra Institute)
Production Team:
Tine Kaag Raun (The Alexandra Institute)
Michael Skotting (Raaskot Visuel Kommunikation)
Mirko Presser (The Alexandra Institute)
Stig Andersen (Thingvalla Kommunikation)
Bente Kjølby Larsen (The Alexandra Institute)
Susanne Brøndberg (The Alexandra Institute)
Lene Holst Mortensen (The Alexandra Institute)
Interviews by Stig Andersen
The Internet of Things Comic Book is a publication of
the Internet of Things International Forum and is powered
by the Alexandra Institute and partially funded by
the
FP7 ICT ‘Internet of Things Initiative’ Coordination
Action,
contract number 257565
Comic Book scenes sponsored by Smart Aarhus
www.smartaarhus.dk
<a><img src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/4.0/88x31.png" /></a><br />Quest'opera è distribuita con Licenza <a>Creative Commons Attribuzione - Non commerciale - Condividi allo stesso modo 4.0 Internazionale</a>.
111What Is the Elephant in the Digital RoomAny hi.docxmoggdede
11
1
What Is the Elephant in the Digital Room?
Any history of the past three decades will give prominent, if not preeminent,
attention to the emergence of the Internet and the broader digital revolu-
tion. In the second decade of the twenty-first century, signs point to its being
a globally defining feature of human civilization going forward, until it even-
tually becomes so natural, so much a part of the social central nervous sys-
tem, as to defy recognition as something new or distinct to our being, like
speech itself.
To some extent, the revolution can be chronicled in the sheer amount
of information being generated and shared. In 1989, which seems like a
century ago, Richard Saul Wurman wrote of “information anxiety” created
by overload because there were a thousand books published every day world-
wide and nearly ten thousand periodicals then being published in the united
States.1 Google’s Eric Schmidt estimates that if one digitally recorded all
extant human cultural artifacts and information created from the dawn of
time until 2003, one would need 5 billion gigabytes of storage space. by
2010 people created that much data every two days.2 by 2012 the amount of
video being uploaded to youTube had doubled since 2010, to the equivalent
of 180,000 feature-length movies per week.3 Put another way, in less than
a week, youTube generates more content than all the films and television
programs hollywood has produced in its entire history.
Another way to grasp the digital revolution is by the amount of time
people immerse themselves in media. An extensive 2009 study found that
most Americans, regardless of their age, spend at least eight and a half hours
per day looking at a television, computer screen, or mobile phone screen,
frequently using two or three screens simultaneously.4 Another 2009 study,
by the Global Information Industry Center, determined that the average
2 digital disconnect
American consumes “information” for 11.4 hours per day, up from 7.4 hours
in 1980.5 A 2011 study of twenty thousand schoolchildren throughout Mas-
sachusetts determined that 20 percent of third graders had cell phones and
over 90 percent were going online. Forty percent of fifth graders and nearly
85 percent of middle schoolers had cell phones, generally smartphones with
Internet access.6 The Internet has long since stopped being optional.
In the united States, Europe, and much of the rest of the world, one need
not have a teenage child to understand that “social networks have become
ubiquitous, necessary, and addictive.” 7 To the students I teach, life without
mobile Internet access is unthinkable. When I describe my college years in
the early 1970s, they have trouble grasping how people managed to com-
municate, how anything could get done, how limited the options seemed to
be, how life could even be led. It would be akin to my great-grandparents
from 1860 Nova Scotia or eastern Kentucky returning to describe their ...
Journalism, data and storytelling: navigating the battlefieldPaul Bradshaw
Data journalism promises to offer a more factual, objective picture of the world — but to what extent can we fulfil that promise? How can storytelling techniques be useful in engaging audiences with factual data — and what risks do they hold? Drawing on a decade’s experiences as a data journalist, academic and author, Paul Bradshaw will discuss the decisions that data journalists take when telling stories with data, and how an awareness of narrative techniques and critical issues in the field can create better journalism.
Keynote at University of Cambridge - Cambridge Digital Humanities Data School June 2019
Luke Robert Mason delivering a talk on using virtual persons as tools for understanding the social layer of the web 2.0.
LSEsu AMP
The Annual AMP Conference: Surviving in a Digital World
Tuesday March 6th 2012
Weavrs are virtual bodies of information, which re-purpose and remix social media streams in order to generate their own personae from the digital detritus of our online lives. Using Web APIs and a custom filter design (a mix of narrative techniques and statistical probability) these autonomous, semi-intelligent software agents have become useful collaborators for market researchers, writers and advertising agencies. By giving brand managers and researchers the ability to create quick, virtual embodiments of their target demographics, Weavrs offer a unique method via which to navigate and author the narratives that emerge on the social web. When all marketing has ever asked of user experience is to make people into users. Phactory ask if, “Surely it’s easier just to make some users?”
Presentation at the Quantified Self Europe Conference 2014 in Amsterdam:
How does the practice of tracking, sharing, and using data for personal meaning challenge our ideas about human connection, ideas traditionally framed as oppositions between between "individuals" and "society."
Slides from a series of talks for the IET's IoT India Congress and some associated events - SRM Chennai, PES Bengaluru, Srishti Bengaluru. I used different subsets of the slides in each talk - this is the whole deck.
ARC 211: American Diversity and Design: Jackie NgJackie Ng
Responses to the online discussion questions in the Spring 2017 version of ARC 211 American Diversity and Design at the University at Buffalo – State University of New York
The information network created by Sir Tim Berners-Lee in 1990 to connect people to knowledge has become an important place to navigate who and what we know, as well as who we think we are. But how much of a revolution is it? This lecture will trace some of the most important developments in social uses of information technologies in order to ultimately argue that the Web does offer unprecedented opportunities to access information and galvanise communities of practice, but that the impact of this new medium will reflect an evolution rather than a revolution of communication practices.
And Then There Were None Essay. And Then There Were None Essay Free Essay Exa...Donna Baun
And Then There Were None Essay Free Essay Example. And Then There Were None (1945) - Movie Review / Film Essay. And Then There Were None. And Then There Were None Essay Sample | Blog. And then there were none essay prompts. and then there were none guilt essay. Chapter 2 And Then There Were None - YouTube. And Then There Were None Contemporary Classics Study Questions - Study .... And Then There Were None, by Agatha Christie - GCSE English - Marked by .... And Then There Were None Literary Analysis. And Then There Were None.. And Then There Were None Intro Presentation with Author Biography. And Then There Were None Essay – Telegraph. (PDF) “246247596248914102516… And Then There Were None”. "And Then There Were None" Book Review. Blore and then there were none descriptive essay. And Then There Were None Study Questions Answers - Study Poster. English 7 Essay And Then There Were None. 1000+ images about And then There were None on Pinterest | Lesson plans .... And Then There Were None Comprehension Guide by Teresa Buonomo | TpT. And then there were none essay questions - studyclix.web.fc2.com. And Then There Were None Chapters 1 and 2. And Then There Were None Study Guide. And Then There Were None | PDF | Leisure And Then There Were None Essay And Then There Were None Essay. And Then There Were None Essay Free Essay Example
ARC 211: American Diversity and Design: Ryan PhillipsRyan Phillips
The following presentation documents my responses to the online discussion questions in the Spring 2017 version of ARC 211 American Diversity and Design at the University at Buffalo – State University of New York
A summary of highlights from the CHI2011 conference (Computer Human Interaction) in Vancouver, Canada. This recap focuses on explorations in tangible interaction. The presentation was given internally at Smart Design on 5/30/2011. Enjoy!
Author: Mirko Presser
The Alexandra Institute
Contributors
Srdjan Krco (Dunavnet)
Tobias Kowatsch (University of St. Gallen)
Stefan Fischer (University of Luebeck)
Wolfgang Maas (Saarland University)
Sebastian Lange (Deloitte)
Francois Carrez (University of Surrey)
Bernard Hun (University of Surrey)
Richard Egan (Thales UK, Research and Technology)
Jan Höller (Ericsson AB)
Alessandro Bassi (Alessandro Bassi Consulting)
Stephan Haller (Vigience AG)
Martin Fiedler (Fraunhofer IML)
Luis Muñoz (University of Cantabria)
Louise Lønborg Rustrup (The Alexandra Institute)
João Fernandes (The Alexandra Institute)
Production Team:
Tine Kaag Raun (The Alexandra Institute)
Michael Skotting (Raaskot Visuel Kommunikation)
Mirko Presser (The Alexandra Institute)
Stig Andersen (Thingvalla Kommunikation)
Bente Kjølby Larsen (The Alexandra Institute)
Susanne Brøndberg (The Alexandra Institute)
Lene Holst Mortensen (The Alexandra Institute)
Interviews by Stig Andersen
The Internet of Things Comic Book is a publication of
the Internet of Things International Forum and is powered
by the Alexandra Institute and partially funded by
the
FP7 ICT ‘Internet of Things Initiative’ Coordination
Action,
contract number 257565
Comic Book scenes sponsored by Smart Aarhus
www.smartaarhus.dk
<a><img src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/4.0/88x31.png" /></a><br />Quest'opera è distribuita con Licenza <a>Creative Commons Attribuzione - Non commerciale - Condividi allo stesso modo 4.0 Internazionale</a>.
111What Is the Elephant in the Digital RoomAny hi.docxmoggdede
11
1
What Is the Elephant in the Digital Room?
Any history of the past three decades will give prominent, if not preeminent,
attention to the emergence of the Internet and the broader digital revolu-
tion. In the second decade of the twenty-first century, signs point to its being
a globally defining feature of human civilization going forward, until it even-
tually becomes so natural, so much a part of the social central nervous sys-
tem, as to defy recognition as something new or distinct to our being, like
speech itself.
To some extent, the revolution can be chronicled in the sheer amount
of information being generated and shared. In 1989, which seems like a
century ago, Richard Saul Wurman wrote of “information anxiety” created
by overload because there were a thousand books published every day world-
wide and nearly ten thousand periodicals then being published in the united
States.1 Google’s Eric Schmidt estimates that if one digitally recorded all
extant human cultural artifacts and information created from the dawn of
time until 2003, one would need 5 billion gigabytes of storage space. by
2010 people created that much data every two days.2 by 2012 the amount of
video being uploaded to youTube had doubled since 2010, to the equivalent
of 180,000 feature-length movies per week.3 Put another way, in less than
a week, youTube generates more content than all the films and television
programs hollywood has produced in its entire history.
Another way to grasp the digital revolution is by the amount of time
people immerse themselves in media. An extensive 2009 study found that
most Americans, regardless of their age, spend at least eight and a half hours
per day looking at a television, computer screen, or mobile phone screen,
frequently using two or three screens simultaneously.4 Another 2009 study,
by the Global Information Industry Center, determined that the average
2 digital disconnect
American consumes “information” for 11.4 hours per day, up from 7.4 hours
in 1980.5 A 2011 study of twenty thousand schoolchildren throughout Mas-
sachusetts determined that 20 percent of third graders had cell phones and
over 90 percent were going online. Forty percent of fifth graders and nearly
85 percent of middle schoolers had cell phones, generally smartphones with
Internet access.6 The Internet has long since stopped being optional.
In the united States, Europe, and much of the rest of the world, one need
not have a teenage child to understand that “social networks have become
ubiquitous, necessary, and addictive.” 7 To the students I teach, life without
mobile Internet access is unthinkable. When I describe my college years in
the early 1970s, they have trouble grasping how people managed to com-
municate, how anything could get done, how limited the options seemed to
be, how life could even be led. It would be akin to my great-grandparents
from 1860 Nova Scotia or eastern Kentucky returning to describe their ...
Journalism, data and storytelling: navigating the battlefieldPaul Bradshaw
Data journalism promises to offer a more factual, objective picture of the world — but to what extent can we fulfil that promise? How can storytelling techniques be useful in engaging audiences with factual data — and what risks do they hold? Drawing on a decade’s experiences as a data journalist, academic and author, Paul Bradshaw will discuss the decisions that data journalists take when telling stories with data, and how an awareness of narrative techniques and critical issues in the field can create better journalism.
Keynote at University of Cambridge - Cambridge Digital Humanities Data School June 2019
Culture seems to be a bucket for everything and nothing. Let's talk about one of the most intangible and funkiest buzzwords in business. I'll share hands on examples how we tackle culture at Mimi in order actively shape and consciously develop it day by day.
Klaus Jäger_Development and future of (solar) energy technologiesUNICORNS IN TECH
This presentation covers some astonishing aspects about solar energy, comparing with other sources of energy. The talks was given at the UNICORNS IN TECH Get-Together hosted by hub:raum
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...sonjaschweigert1
Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navy’s DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
- Reduction in onboarding time from 5 weeks to 1 day
- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
Development teams can ship efficiently and ensure applications are cyber ready for Navy Authorizing Officials (AOs). In this webinar, Sigma Defense and Anchore will give attendees a look behind the scenes and demo secure pipeline automation and security artifacts that speed up application ATO and time to production.
We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
Enhancing Performance with Globus and the Science DMZGlobus
ESnet has led the way in helping national facilities—and many other institutions in the research community—configure Science DMZs and troubleshoot network issues to maximize data transfer performance. In this talk we will present a summary of approaches and tips for getting the most out of your network infrastructure using Globus Connect Server.
Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to ProductionAggregage
Join Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, in this new session where he'll share a practical framework to transform Gen AI prototypes into impactful products! He'll delve into the complexities of data collection and management, model selection and optimization, and ensuring security, scalability, and responsible use.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Pushing the limits of ePRTC: 100ns holdover for 100 daysAdtran
At WSTS 2024, Alon Stern explored the topic of parametric holdover and explained how recent research findings can be implemented in real-world PNT networks to achieve 100 nanoseconds of accuracy for up to 100 days.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
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An Invisible Woman - Lynn Conway
1. An Invisible Woman: The Inside Story Behind the
Microelectronic Computing Revolution in Silicon Valley1,2,3
Lynn Conway, Professor of EECS Emerita, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Opening Keynote: #UNIT 2017, Berlin, Germany, May 6, 2017
In 2015, US CTO Megan Smith raised profound questions about women’s
contributions in science, engineering and math being erased from history.
In this talk we explore a case study of such erasure, and surface a very
counter-intuitive conjecture about the underlying causes and effects.
1. In remembrance of pioneering novelist Ralph Ellison, author of Invisible Man, 1952.
2. Based on a Pride Keynote at the National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, June 10, 2015.
3. Posted online: http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/Memoirs/Talks/UNIT_2017/Inside_Story_Talk.pptx and .pdf
2. Framing the Story:
Reflecting on the 2013 LGBT Pride Celebration at the White House
Visualizing Erasures of Women’s Contributions in STEM:
Past US-CTO Megan Smith Describes the Phenomenon (VIDEO)
Example Case Study: The Inside Story Behind the VLSI Revolution
An Explanatory Conjecture:
It’s because of “The Conway Effect”!
Q/A and Discussion:
Including Thought-Experiments re the ‘Propagation of Innovations’
3. Reflections on the White House Reception
Celebrating of LGBT Pride Month, June 13, 2013:
The Many Shades of ‘Out’, by Lynn Conway
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lynn-conway/the-many-shades-of-out_b_3591764.html
4. The Many Shades of ‘Out’, by Lynn Conway:
On a sultry June afternoon, as my husband and I walked towards the
White House, I reflected back on my gender transition in 1968.
Shamed as a social outcast, I'd lost my family, friends and social
support. Fired by IBM, I’d lost a promising research career. In many
cities I could’ve been arrested, or worse yet, institutionalized.
Evading those fates, I completed my transition, took on a secret new
identity, and started all over as a contract programmer. Any 'outing'
and I'd have become unemployable . . . Fear channeled me into
'stealth-mode‘. For over 30 years I covered my past, living as if I was a
spy in my own country.
But it was now June 13, 2013 . . . My husband Charlie and I were
joining many other advocates at the President's White House
Reception for LGBT Pride Month. The air was full of joy, and as we
awaited the President I reflected further.
I’d been 'out' for 15 years . . . or so I'd thought: out on the Internet to
reveal my past to colleagues, out as an trans advocate and an activist
against psychiatry’s pathologization of gender variance.
When I was hidden in the back-rooms of Xerox Palo Alto Research
Center decades before, launching innovations as the hidden-hand
behind the VLSI microelectronics revolution, I didn't mind being
invisible in my field back then or that no one had a clue what I was
doing . . . I was thrilled to even have a job.
But 'out' has many shades of grey -- and even in recent years I kept
on shyly holding back, covering in the darker shadows. Although
times had changed, I'd clung to old habits.
Down through the decades no one could explain how the VLSI
revolution actually happened. The results were simply taken for
granted. Although I'd gained vital knowledge about generating such
paradigm shifts, I feared my personal history would loom large in
folk's minds and obscure any attempt at explanation. It wasn't till
2012 that I got up the nerve to publish a memoir to begin revealing
how the VLSI revolution came about.
As the president entered the room, I glanced around and took in the
joyful vibes. As he began to speak, I grasped how far we'd come.
Times had more than changed: a fresh wind was sweeping through
our society, especially amongst younger generations.
Then I thought of the millions of other LGBT people out there. I
tried to envision their lifelong struggles against ostracism, their
losses of families and employment, their oppression by having to
'cover', while not being known for who they were, what they'd
done, who they loved or who loved them.
In a flash, I saw the vastness of the suffering . . . Then it hit me:
we've come so far so fast that many others could now begin
uncovering too! After all, freedom isn't just an external concept
framed by our laws. It's a gift of the spirit that we must give
ourselves, by going towards brighter shades of 'out'.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lynn-conway/the-many-shades-of-out_b_3591764.html
5. With that as a backdrop, let’s now examine
history’s treatment of women’s contributions in STEM
Link
6. First, listen to former U. S. Chief Technology Officer Megan Smith
revealing how women in STEM are erased from history . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHyRdAyqV5c&t=0m1s
http://boingboing.net/2015/05/08/cto-megan-smith-explains-how-w.html
http://www.charlierose.com/watch/60554078 (4-28-15)
7. There were four women on the
Macintosh team in the 1980s, but not a
single one was cast in the 2013 biopic
Jobs. Even worse, all seven men on the
project had speaking roles in the film.
It’s not just harder for women to break into STEM
fields, but the many contributions they do make aren’t
celebrated. “It's debilitating to our young women to
have their history almost erased,” Smith explains.
8. For more about Katherine Johnson, the NASA mathematician whose
story was discussed by Megan Smith, see the 2016 book and movie:
Hidden Figures: The Story of the
African-American Women Who
Helped Win the Space Race,
Margot Lee Shetterly (2016)
Katherine Johnson at her
NASA Langley desk, 1960
Katherine Johnson, age 98
Photo by Annie Leibovitz for
Vanity Fair, 2016
Fortunately, she’s lived long-
enough to see her story told!
9. This effect is seen throughout the history of women in science, as reported by
science historian Margaret Rossiter in Women Scientists in America (V 1-3):
10. Margaret Rossiter coined the term “Matilda effect” in 1993 for the systemic
repression and denial of contributions of women scientists, whose work is
often attributed to male colleagues.
This is similar to the term "Matthew effect“ that sociologist Robert Merton
coined in 1968, describing how eminent scientists get more credit than lesser-
known researchers, even if their work is similar.
For example: a prize will usually awarded to the most senior researcher in a
project, even if a grad student did all the work.
11. CASE STUDY:
The revolution in Very Large Scale Integrated (VLSI) silicon
microchip design and manufacturing, beginning in 1976.
Link
12. The stage was set by the emergence of integrated circuit technology in the 1960’s,
enabling modest numbers of transistors and wiring to be ‘printed’ onto chips of silicon . . .
Some early
integrated
circuits:
Snip from Goggle images
13. Rapid advances in lithography enabled
the printing of ever-finer features,
enabling ever-increasing the numbers of
transistors to be printed on single chips.
A watershed was crossed in 1971
with the introduction of the Intel 4004,
the first single-chip “microprocessor”:
a “computer processor on a chip” . . .
It contained 2300 transistors . . .
Source
Source
14. Intel’s Gordon Moore observed that the
number of transistors reliably printable on chips
was roughly doubling every two years . . .
N(t)/N(0) = 2^(t/2)
Moore’s Law (as of 1976)
An exponential function,
graphed on a vertical log scale
.
Carver Mead named this “Moore’s Law”
(clever career move, eh?) and his student Bruce
Hoeneisen showed there were no physical limits
to densities up to several million transistors/cm2.
In 1976 this triggered a research effort at
Xerox PARC and Caltech to explore how to
enable such complex chips to be designed.
Looking ahead it was conceivable that
by ~1990 an entire “supercomputer” could
be printed on a single chip . . .
15. The stage was further set by seminal innovations in personal computing & networking:
The innovation of the interactive-display, mouse-controlled “personal computer”,
the “Ethernet” local-area network, and the “laser printer” at Xerox PARC) . . .
Wiki commons
Xerox Alto, 1973 Metcalfe’s original
Ethernet sketch, 1973
And by the Dept. of Defense’s “Arpanet” (the early internet), at DARPA . . .
Arpanet map, 1971
Laser
printer,
1971
Source
Source
16. A sudden disruptive breakout was triggered by a cluster of abstract innovations
by Lynn Conway at PARC . . .
Link
Included in them was a set of
scalable VLSI chip-layout
digital design-rules, encoded
as ratioed (i.e. dimensionless)
inequality equations
These enabled digital chip
designs to be numerically
encoded, scaled, and reused
as Moore’s law advanced . . .
They also enabled chip
design modules to be scaled
and open-source shared . . .
17. The driving meta-architectural techno-social innovation:
As chip lithography scales-down according to Moore’s Law, and ever-more ever-faster
transistors can be printed on individual chips as time passes, we visualize launching the
following “techno-social scripted-process”:
STEP (i):
Use design tools on current computers to Design chip-sets for more powerful computers.
Print the more powerful chip-sets using foundries’ next-denser fabrication processes.
Use some of those chip-sets to Update current computer-design computers & design tools.
REPEAT (as STEP (i+1))
If ever-more engineers and design-tool builders did this (on an expanding number of
increasingly powerful computers), the iterating techno-social expansion-process could
exploratorily and innovatively-generate ever-more, ever-more-powerful, digital systems . . .
I.e., that techno-social process could exponentiate! (until Moore’s Law saturates . . . )
18. In 1977, to help spread the ideas, I began documenting the innovative new
VLSI chip design methods in an evolving computer-edited textbook . . .
Link
But there was a big problem: Where would all these engineers/programmers
come from, and how would they learn to do all this?
19. The computer-edited evolving book,
printed on PARC laser printers, became
the draft of the seminal textbook . . .
Introduction to VLSI Systems
by Mead and Conway, 1980.
Using Alto computers not only to help
mechanize the evolution of chip designs,
but also to help mechanize the evolution
of the design-knowledge itself . . .
(later called “the book that
changed everything” . . . )
20. Following the ‘script’ Charles Steinmetz used to
propagate his revolutionary AC electricity methods at
Union College in 1912, I introduced the new chip design
methods in a special VLSI design course at MIT in 1978.
Link
Link
Link
21. Students learned chip design in the
1st half course, and did project-chip
designs in the 2nd half . . . which were
fabricated at HP right after the course.
Among many amazing results was
a complete Lisp microprocessor
designed by Guy Steele . . .
22. Map and photomicrograph
of the 19 student projects on
the MIT’78 ‘MultiProject’ Chip
For more about the MIT’78 course, see Lynn’s “MIT Reminiscences”
23. The MIT’78 course stunned various top folks across Silicon Valley . . .
Until then chip design had been mysterious, only grasped by a few computer engineers
working for chip manufacturers . . thus having inside access to the “printing plants” . . .
Many other top research universities wanted to offer “MIT-like” courses. But how?
After intensive pondering, I grasped the answer: Rerun the MIT’78 course at a dozen
research universities . . . using my MIT lecture notes to keep everything in sync.
But how to “print” all the student project chips?
I suddenly envisioned the idea of (what’s now called) an “e-commerce system” enabling
student design files to be remotely submitted via the Arpanet to a “server” at PARC .
That server would run software to pack designs into multi-project chips (like composing
the print-files for a magazine, using remotely-submitted articles) . . .
We’d then “print” the MPC’s again at HP Labs (where my colleague Pat Castro had
prototyped the first “silicon foundry”), and quickly return the chips to students.
24. In the fall of 1979, I orchestrated a huge “happening” (MPC79)* . . . It involved 129
budding VLSI designers taking Mead-Conway courses at 12 research universities…
*The MPC Adventures: Experiences with the Generation of VLSI Design
and Implementation Methodologies, L. Conway, Xerox PARC, 1981 (PDF)
25. MPC79 provided a large-scale “demonstration-
operation-validation” of the design methods, design
courses, design tools and e-commerce digital-
prototyping infrastructure . . .
It also triggered ‘cyclic gain’ in and exponentiation of
the budding VLSI design techno-social ecosystem
From The MPC Adventures* (Lynn Conway, 1981, p. 16)
By 1982-83, Mead-Conway VLSI design courses were
being offered at 113 universities all around the world
It was an early interactive experimental-exploration
of emergent techno-social system-dynamics in an
adventure in what’s now becoming known as
“social physics”
Figure 8. The Joint Evolution of the Multi-Level Cluster
of (Techno-Social) Systems
26. 1976
1978
1979
’79: Launching the VLSI courses via MPC79!!
1977
’76: How to cope with VLSI complexity?
’77: Inventing scalable VLSI design rules.
’78: Launching the VLSI methods at MIT!
Visualizing the exponentiating
wave of VLSI innovation . . .
27. Starting with several thousand in
1971, the number of transistors on
a chip passed one million by 1991,
and passed several billion by 2011!
Over the past 40 years or so,
Moore’s Law stayed on track
all the way:
N(t)/N(0) = 2^(t/2)
N
N(0), t(0)
(exponential function
with t in years)
(exponential function
graphed on log scale)
29. For more about PARC and the
amazing things done there, see
Michael Hiltzik’s Dealers of Lightning:
For a wider sociological perspective
on the internet’s emergence, see
Thomas Streeter’s The Net Effect
For insights into the role of
gov’t in VLSI’s emergence,
see this book from the NRC:
30. Let’s now go back and follow the high-tech community’s reactions
to the “Mead-Conway” innovations over the ensuing decades:
Link
31. By ’81 key people sensed ‘something significant’
had happened, and Mead & Conway began
receiving major recognition during the 1980s:
Electronics Award for Achievement ‘81
Pender Award, Moore School ‘84
Wetherill Medal, Franklin Institute ’85
NAE, Mead ‘84
NAE, Conway ‘89. . .
32. However, from ‘89 on through the 00s, Mead received increasingly
major recognitions, while Conway’s role was erased*:
NAS ‘89
American Academy of Arts and Sciences ‘91
EDAC Phil Kaufman Award ‘96
IEEE John Von Neuman Medal ‘96
ACM Allen Newell Award ‘97
MIT Lemelson Award ‘99 ($500,000)
Fellow Award, Computer History Museum ‘02
National Medal of Technology ‘02
NAE Founders Award ‘03
Inventors Hall of Fame, at Computer History Museum Gala ‘09
*Most of these awards were for innovations that were solely Conway’s
33. Chip inventors getting their due at Hall of Fame induction
By Mike Cassidy, San Jose Mercury News
Apr. 30, 2009 --The 50th birthday celebration of the integrated circuit kicks off in Silicon Valley
this weekend, and frankly, I'm a little overwhelmed . . .
On Saturday night, the National Inventors Hall of Fame is inducting this year's class. The sold-
out ceremony (at the Computer History Museum) is in Silicon Valley for the first time, because
the Ohio-based hall is honoring 15 who are responsible for breakthroughs in semiconductor
technology -- the technology that put the "silicon" in Silicon Valley . . . In a way, it's as if the
valley's founding fathers are coming together to be honored in person and posthumously.
Inductees Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel and namesake of Moore's Law, and Carver
Mead, chip design pioneer and all-around brainiac, will be at the ceremony. So will lifetime
achievement honoree Andy Grove, Intel's former CEO . . .
As a result, by 2009 the erasure was complete:
34. San Jose Mercury News April 30, 2009
With Andy Grove, Gordon Moore and Carver Mead taking center stage:
BTW, not only was Lynn Conway not invited, she didn’t even know it was happening!
Hmm. Reminds us of the Apple Macintosh story, eh?
35. My recent investigations into and reporting on what happened,
hoping to regain some of my legacy along the way . . .
Link
36. And all that led me to write and publish my
“Reminiscences of the VLSI Revolution” in the
Fall 2012 IEEE Solid State Circuits Magazine.
The story of my recent investigations is
quite a saga, yet to be fully told . . .
It was the first time in decades that
I’d stepped forward to tell the story . . .
But to make it short, along the way
I uncovered all sorts of fascinating
data and evidence.
37. Here are links regarding my investigation to understand
what happened and to reclaim my life-legacy:
Compilation of the VLSI Archive, 2009-2012
Publication of my IBM-ACS Reminiscences, 2011
Publication of my VLSI Reminiscences, 2012
Publication of The Many Shades of ‘Out’, 2013
Publication of my MIT Reminiscences, 2014
Here’s evidence that “the paradigm is shifting”:
Hall of Fellows, Computer History Museum, 2014
Honorary Doctorate, Illinois Institute of Technology, 2014
IEEE & Royal Society of Edinburgh, James Clerk Maxwell Medal, 2015
Honorary Doctorate, University of Victoria, Nov. 9, 2016
38. Link
And now a Counter-Intuitive Explanatory-Conjecture for
the Mathew Effect, Matilda Effect and ‘Conway Effect’!
39. Throughout this case-study we “appear to observe” the following effects:
(i) the “Matilda effect” (repression of women scientists’ contributions)
(ii) the "Matthew effect“ (eminent scientists get more credit)
These effects involve “self-fulfilling prophecies”, which Merton describes as:
“. . . a false definition of the situation evoking a new behavior which makes the
original false conception come true. This specious validity of the self-fulfilling
prophecy perpetuates a reign of error. For the prophet will cite the actual
course of events as proof that he was right from the very beginning.”
But is that all that’s happening? Or are other, deeper forces in play?
40. On closer investigation, I realized that something far more subliminal and
fundamental was happening at a social level . . . something that involves no
errors, no conspiracies, no repressions and no ‘bad guys’:
CONJECTURE: Almost all people are blind to innovations, especially ones
made by ‘others’ whom they do not expect to make innovations.
Since for most people, ‘others’ = ‘almost all people’, few people ever witness
or visualize innovations, even ones made right in front of their eyes, even
including some made by themselves!
Instead, when constructing internal-orientations towards ‘novelties’ they
stumble upon, they look for cues by others . . . not just whether or not to
accept or reject a novelty . . . but even whether to notice it in the first place!
From this perspective, the Mathew Effect and Matilda Effect are derivatives
of the conjectured “Conway Effect”, which covers ‘all outsiders’.
Link
41. Visualizing the Conway Effect in action:
Most students in MIT’78 thought they were learning “how chips were
designed in Silicon Valley” (the course was, in effect, a giant MIT hack!).
They “did it” without realizing they were learning radical new methods.
The astonished reaction amongst Silicon Valley cognoscenti led to intense
interest in reverse engineering “How MIT did this”, and many research
universities immediately wanted to offer similar “MIT VLSI courses”.
The next year, the users of MPC79 took it for granted and just ‘used it’.
No one realized MPC79 was an even larger paradigm-shifting-hackathon
that launched the modern industrial system of “fabless design” + “silicon
foundries” + “internet-based e-commerce infrastructure.”
By analogy with Doug Engelbart’s ‘68 “Mother of All Demos” that framed
the emergence of PARC PC’s: MPC79 was “The Godmother of All Demos”
42. What might MPC79 participants been thinking?
Since MPC79 used the ARPANET, many thought DoD’s DARPA had “innovated it.”
When DARPA later funded the transfer of the MPC79 technology to USC’s Info. Sci. Inst.,
many high-tech’ers and future users thought “MOSIS” had been “innovated by DARPA”!
Government-sponsored MOSIS-like services even sprang up in other countries too!
Thus the VLSI revolution swept through the high-tech community without anyone realizing
it had been deliberately generated, much less how that was done, or who did it.
Although the VLSI Book by ‘Mead’ was iconically-connected with these large-scale
techno-social events, Mead himself was never able to explain what happened . . .
Meanwhile, Conway remained hidden in the shadows until 2012, when she finally
felt able to emerge and explain how it happened . . .
43. The Conway Effect: Almost all people are blind to innovations,
especially those made by folks they don’t expect to make innovations.
• Innovations diffuse via social-processes involving subliminal subgroup noticings,
mimickings, rejections, adoptions, adaptations, tradings and displacements
Meanwhile, credits for innovations as social tokens are separately
subliminally assigned, gained, granted, bartered, seized, etc . . .
• Crediting-processes are modulated by visibility, status, prestige, class, power,
location, credentials, prejudice, popularity, influence, money and accident . . .
The visibility of crediting (vs invisibility of innovations) thus sustains
the crediting-processes and the ongoing-blindness to innovations.
Corollary: It’s possible to trigger large paradigm-shifts right out in
the open, as long as people have no clue what you’re doing!
Distracted by Greed:
Covert Visioneering!
Link
45. Q/A and Discussion:
Questions for you to ponder!
Have you noticed an innovation this week?
Have you made an innovation this week?
What is an innovation???
Meta: How to think abstractly about such things?
Gaining insights from the evolution of culture in animals . . .
Glimpses into Emerging Techno-Social Dynamical-Systems . . .
46. t1
t2
t3
t4
John Tyler Bonner, The Evolution of Culture in Animals,
Princeton University Press, 1980, p.183-4.
Thought Experiment!*
*As unfolded by Lynn to mystified audiences decades ago
in her spirited keynotes at Spring Compcon ’83 and DAC ‘84.
Visualizing the
diffusion of an
‘innovation’,
1921-1949
Mapping
an example
space-time
diffusion
process
47. Thought experiment!**
“The most remarkable of such examples comes from the work of the Japanese Monkey Center
where macaques were isolated in groups on small islands, and differences in the behavior
patterns of different island populations arose by cultural evolution . . .
The greatest achievement is that of Imo, the female genius among the macaques.
At the age of two she invented washing the sand off sweet potatoes before eating them, and at a
later date she found a way of separating wheat from sand by throwing the mixture in the water
and skimming off the wheat from the surface.
These discoveries spread slowly through the colony, although in general the older individuals
were the last to acquire the new tricks.”***
***John Tyler Bonner, The Evolution of Culture in Animals,
Princeton University Press, 1980, p.184. Source
**As unfolded by Lynn to mystified audiences decades ago
in her spirited keynotes at Spring Compcon ’83 and DAC ‘84.
48. Thought Experiment: Inside Rackspace's Headquarters (video of “The Castle”)
Just imagine what’s going on inside “1 Fanatical Place, Windcrest, TX”,
and similar high-technology exploration-grounds all around the world!
49. For glimpses into Techno-Social Systems in the emerging Social Age see:
http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/Memoirs/Talks/UVIC/Techno_Social_Talk.pptx
http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/Memoirs/Talks/UVIC/Techno_Social_Talk.pdf
50. Readings:
Ken Shepard, “Covering”: How We Missed the Inside-Story of the VLSI Revolution”, IEEE Solid State Circuits Magazine, FALL 2012, pp. 40-42.
(more)
Chuck House, “A Paradigm Shift Was Happening All Around Us”, IEEE Solid State Circuits Magazine, FALL 2012, pp. 32-35. (more)
Lynn Conway, “Reminiscences of the VLSI Revolution: How a series of failures triggered a paradigm shift in digital design”, IEEE Solid State
Circuits Magazine, FALL 2012, p. 8-31. (more)
Lynn Conway, “The Many Shades of Out”, Huffington Post, July 24, 2013.
Paul Penfield, "The VLSI Revolution at MIT", 2014 MIT EECS Connector, Spring 2014, pp. 11-13.
Lynn Conway, "MIT Reminiscences: Student years to VLSI revolution", lynnconway.com, March 11, 2014.
Computer History Museum: “Lynn Conway, 2014 Fellow, For her work in developing and disseminating new methods of integrated circuit
design”, April 2014.
Nicole Casal Moore, “Life, Engineered: How Lynn Conway reinvented her world and ours”, The Michigan Engineer, FALL 2014, pp. 42-49.
Catharine June, “Lynn Conway to receive 2015 IEEE/RSE James Clerk Maxwell Medal”, Michigan Engineering News, December, 15, 2014.
IEEE and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, “James Clerk Maxwell Medal ceremony at the Royal Society of Edinburgh”, YouTube, Nov. 12, 2015.
IEEE/RSE Maxwell Medal Presentation at the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Citation by Barry Shoop, President-Elect of the IEEE, Nov. 12, 2015.
Magnus Linklater, “‘Life in stealth’ of microchip genius who migrated to a new identity: Lynn Conway beat transgender bias and began a
revolution”, The Times (UK), Nov. 14, 2015.
University of Victoria, “Professor Lynn Conway’s Citation for the Degree Doctor of Engineering, Honoris Causa, Univ. of Victoria”, Nov 9, 2016.