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<article>
<header>
<h1>The Big List of Famous Trans* Programmers</h1>
<p>A community-driven, open-source compendium of notable trans* programmers and computer science professionals.</p>
<p>In order to recommend additions, revisions, or raise meta discussions, please <a href="https://github.com/transprogrammer-org/tp-docs/issues/new">open a GitHub issue</a>. If you're interested in becoming a contributor, email us at [email protected] and we'll get back to you as soon as we can.</p>
<p>This article is dedicated to the original poster, an unknown reddit user who <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/transprogrammer/comments/2g0pk9/the_big_list_of_famous_trans_programmers/">submitted the list</a> as a self-post to <a href="https://reddit.com/r/transprogrammer">r/transprogrammer</a> on Saturday, September 13, 2014.</p>
</header>
<section>
<h2>Table of Contents</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="#application-development">Application Development</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#ogborn-anne">Ogborn, Anne</a><li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#design-engineering">Design Engineering</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#conway-lynn">Conway, Lynn</a></li>
<li><a href="#hailey-ashwana">Hailey, Ashwana</li>
<li><a href="#wilson-sophie">Wilson, Sophie</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#game-development">Game Development</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="anthropy-anna">Anthropy, Anna</a></li>
<li><a href="berry-danielle-bunten">Berry, Dainelle Bunten</a></li>
<li><a href="heineman-rebecca">Heineman, Rebecca</a></li>
<li><a href="fenton-jamie-faye">Fenton, Jamie Faye</a></li>
<li><a href="love-christine">Love, Christine</a></li>
<li><a href="mataga-cathryn">Mataga, Cathryn</a></li>
<li><a href="porpetine">Porpetine</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#information-technology">Information Technology</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="craig-wood-katie">Craig-Wood, Kate</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#systems-technology">Systems Technology</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="massalin-alexia">Massalin, Alexia</a></li>
<li><a href="tang-audrey">Tang, Audrey</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#other">Other</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="manning-chelsea">Manning, Chelsea</a></li>
<li><a href="stone-sandy">Stone, Sandy</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h2>Application Development</h2>
<article>
<h3>Anne Ogborn</h3>
<dl>
<dt>pronouns</dt>
<dd>she/her<dd>
<dt>born</dt>
<dd>1959 in Salina, Kansas, U.S.</dd>
<dt>description</dt>
<dd>Worked at a number of well-known software companies, including Ashton-Tate, EA, and Apple. Worked on Apple's localization systems for Mac OS 8. Won awards for writing WingZ, the first spreadsheet to let the user draw on it. Active in the SWI-Prolog project and various virtual world projects. Also famous for her trans activism: among other things, she started the first organized resistance against MWMF's transphobic policies.</dd>
<dt>see also</dt>
<dd><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Ogborn">Wikipedia</a></dd>
<dd><a href="https://github.com/Anniepoo">GitHub</a></dd>
</dl>
</article>
</section>
<section>
<h2>Design Engineering</h2>
<article>
<h3>Lynn Conway</h3>
<dl>
<dt>pronouns</dt>
<dd>she/her<dd>
<dt>born</dt>
<dd>January 2, 1938 in White Plains, New York, U.S.</dd>
<dt>description</dt>
<dd>Most famous for co-launching the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mead_%26_Conway_revolution">Mead & Conway revolution</a> in VLSI design. Also known for her extensive trans activism; among other things, she coined the term FFS and helped popularize its practice.</dd>
<dt>see also</dt>
<dd><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Conway">Wikipedia</a></dd>
</dl>
</article>
<article>
<h3>Ashawna Hailey</h3>
<dl>
<dt>pronouns</dt>
<dd>she/her<dd>
<dt>born</dt>
<dd>October 8, 1949 in Lubbock, Texas, U.S.</dd>
<dt>died</dt>
<dd>October 14, 2011 in San Jose, Califdornia, U.S.</dd>
<dt>description</dt>
<dd>Created the HSPICE program used by much of the semiconductor industry to design chips. Also designed AMD's first microprocessor and EPROM. She spent the later part of her life involved in philanthropy, and she was an outspoken opponent of the war on drugs. RIP. She willed large amounts of money to charitable organizations, and her contribution was partially responsible for Colorado legalizing marijuana.</dd>
<dt>see also</dt>
<dd><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashawna_Hailey">Wikipedia</a></dd>
</dl>
<article>
<article>
<h3>Sophie Wilson</h3>
<dl>
<dt>pronouns</dt>
<dd>she/her</dd>
<dt>born</dt>
<dd>1957 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England</dd>
<dt>description</dt>
<dd>Inventor of the ARM architecture.</dd>
<dt>see also</dt>
<dd><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Wilson">Wikipedia</a></dd>
</dt>
<article>
</section>
<section>
<h2>Game Development</h2>
<article>
<h3>Anna Anthropy</h3>
<dl>
<dt>pronouns</dt>
<dd>she/her</dd>
<dt>description</dt>
<dd></dd>
<dt>see also</dt>
<dd><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Anthropy">Wikipedia</a></dd>
<dd><a href="https://twitter.com/adult_witch">Twitter</a></dd>
</dl>
Created a number of freeware games, including *dys4ia*, a game meant to teach people what it's like to live in her shoes.
### Danielle Bunten Berry
[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danielle_Bunten_Berry)
Pioneered multiplayer gaming. Created *M.U.L.E.* and *Seven Cities of Gold*. The Computer Game Developers Association gave her a lifetime achievement award. RIP. *The Sims* was posthumously dedicated to her, and she was posthumously inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame.
### Rebecca Heineman
[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Heineman)
Created a number of classic adventure games (including *Tass Times in Tonetown* and *The Bard's Tale III: Thief of Fate*), among others (including *Battle Chess*). Also a prolific writer of fan fiction.
### Jamie Faye Fenton
[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Fenton)
Co-creator of what eventually became *Adobe Director* (the ancestor of Flash)
### Christine Love
[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Love_%28visual_novelist%29)
Wrote a number of visual novels, including *Digital: A Love Story* and *Analogue: A Hate Story*.
### Cathryn Mataga
[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathryn_Mataga)
Worked on a large number of games for Synapse Software, Brøderbund Software, and Strategic Simulations, among others. *Shamus* was particularly well-received.
### Porpentine
[Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porpentine_%28game_designer%29)
Designed a number of hypertext games, mostly using the Twine engine. Also active in games journalism.
## Information Technology:
### Kate Craig-Wood
[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Craig-Wood)
Self-taught programmer and IT consultant. Less well-known for her technical skills and more for her entrepreneurship and advocacy for energy efficiency: she co-founded Britain's first carbon-neutral ISP.
## Systems Engineering:
### Alexia Massalin
[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexia_Massalin)
Pioneer of superoptimization, designer of the Synthesis kernel.
### Audrey Tang
[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_Tang)
Created a large number of Perl projects (triple digits, according to CPAN). Set up CPAN's smoke testing and digital signature infrastructure. Created Pugs, the first implementation of Perl 6 to see siginificant progress.
## Other:
### Chelsea Manning
[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea_Manning)
Involved in various local hacker communities before leaking large amounts of classified information to WikiLeaks. Leaked chat transcripts show that she's a skilled programmer.
### Sandy Stone
[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Stone_%28artist%29)
Self-taught programmer, worked as a freelance coder. Much more well-known for her non-programming-related academic work. Wrote a famous rebuttal to notorious TERF Janice Raymond.