American computer scientist and Usenet pioneer (born 1955)
Mary Ann Horton
Born
(1955-11-21) November 21, 1955 (age 68)
Richland, Washington
Website
maryannhorton.com
Mary Ann Horton (born Mark R. Horton, on November 21, 1955), is a Usenet and Internet pioneer. Horton contributed to Berkeley UNIX (BSD), including the vi editor and terminfo database,[1][2] created the first email binary attachment tool uuencode, and led the growth of Usenet in the 1980s.[3]
Horton successfully requested the first transgender-inclusive language added to the Equal Employment Policy in a large American company, and championed the language and insurance coverage of transgender health benefits at other companies.[4]
Horton is a computer scientist and a transgender educator and activist.
^"Interview with Bill Joy". Archived from the original on 10 February 2012. Retrieved 3 June 2017.
^Joy, Bill. "vi Reference Manual" (roff source). 4.4 BSD (encumbered, not Lite). CSRG, UC Berkeley. (see Acknowlegments section at end of file)
^On the Early Days of Usenet: The Roots of the Cooperative Online Culture
^"Lucent Technologies Protects Transgendered Employees" (Press release). Columbus: It's Time, Ohio!. December 19, 1997. Archived from the original on 2000-09-14.
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programs to use display terminals in a device-independent manner. MaryAnnHorton implemented the first terminfo library in 1981–1982 as an improvement...
through UC Berkeley, which had connections to both Usenet and ARPANET. MaryAnnHorton, the graduate student who set up the connection, began "feeding mailing...
developed at the University of California, Berkeley by Matt Glickman and MaryAnnHorton as a replacement for A News. It was used on Unix systems from 1981...
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first accomplished in 1980 by manually encoding 8-bit files using MaryAnnHorton's uuencode, and later using BinHex or xxencode and pasting the resulting...
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