We thank Miss Mary Tsingou (2020)
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Imagine drafting mathematicians instead of sending them to the national security science laboratory at Los Almos!
> Upon being hired, Tsingou was flatly informed that she and the other young women would be paid less than men with the same skills and qualifications because “men were breadwinners and women were just supplementary.”
Imagine that being the standard.
> By today’s standards in the scientific community, Mary Tsingou would have been an author on the paper— she might have even been the first author, the person who contributed the most to the project. Among those who agree with the renaming of the problem is David Campbell, Professor of Physics, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Materials Science and Engineering at Boston University and former director of the Center for Nonlinear Studies at Los Alamos.
It's good to see programmers given this recognition. In my experience these days most programmers can expect an author credit on a paper they wrote software for. Not sure about being first author though!
You must have cognitive dissonance because it is the standard for children. Maybe in 100 years children will have the same rights as adults and people will feel exactly the same about us as you do about those olden days people.
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Tsingou is 93, and it's great that she's lived to see this belated acknowledgement, and the progress (albeit slow) towards gender equality.
> And then, as I said, the Cray computers came along. They started with 150K of memory, or something like that, and everybody thought, “Boy, those are really [advanced]!” But even those, a lot of times, had problems on weekends. We’d have people run our problems, and we’d sign up for four or five hours for the problem to run, to get some results. Probably it wouldn’t even finish, and they dumped the data onto a tape, and the next weekend—because a lot of times long problems would not be run except on weekends—you would pick it up. Also, for your own sake, when you were running your problem, after an hour or two you would dump it—because in case the machine went down, you lost [your interim results]