[HN Gopher] A job at Yale in the 1960s set Susan Eggers on a pat... ___________________________________________________________________ A job at Yale in the 1960s set Susan Eggers on a path in computer science Author : jacquesm Score : 68 points Date : 2020-09-15 21:30 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (egc.yale.edu) (TXT) w3m dump (egc.yale.edu) | rhacker wrote: | I wonder if they could have written this a bit more self | trajectory than spoon feed a baby to greatness. They don't write | articles like this for men. | papeda wrote: | I'm confused, what part of her story involves "spoon | feed[ing]"? | emmelaich wrote: | I love this... | | > _Almost immediately after she started to talk, they began to | speak up, so she sprayed them with water and they never cut her | off again._ | | No point in responding with pleas to straight up rudeness. | _wldu wrote: | I think the Einstein picture is from the campus of Georgia Tech. | andrewflnr wrote: | She helped invent hyperthreading. How have I not heard of her | before? https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~eggers/ | ncmncm wrote: | tl;dr Invented hyperthreading, got the Eckert-Mauchly award in | 2018. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-09-16 23:00 UTC)