Mary Ann Horton
Mary Ann Horton ( born November 21, 1955 in Richland, Washington as Mark R. Horton ) is an IT specialist and IT trainer and is committed to transgender issues. It is one of the pioneers of Usenet and the Internet. Horton worked at Berkeley BSD UNIX with, especially at the vi editor and the terminfo database and was instrumental in the growth of Usenet in the 1980s.
Training
Horton grew up on the U.S. Pacific coast in the northwestern United States. 1970 Horton took interest in computer programming, moved in 1971 to San Diego County and remained in California. Horton graduated in 1973 at the San Dieguito High School in 1976 and received a Bachelor of Computer Science at the University of Southern California. Subsequently, Horton the Master of Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin succeeded. In 1978 she moved to the University of California at Berkeley, where in 1981 the Ph.D. achieved in computer science.
In Wisconsin Horton UNIX learned and programmed a UNIX text editor. At Berkeley, she worked on the development of the Berkeley UNIX, in particular the VI text editor. In her thesis she presented a syntax-directed language editor before with a text-based input mask. This technology was used ( computer -aided software engineering CASE) later in the field of computer-aided software development.
In 1980, Horton Usenet O messaging system to Berkeley and took care of its growth from an initially complete only 10 sites network at over 5000 locations in 1987. On Access to UUCP, they gave access to Berknet and the military ARPANET and put the first gateways between some popular ARPANET mailing lists and usenet "fa" newsgroups. In 1981, she created together with the student Matt Glickman as part of a Spring Break project B News which the more significant growth of Usenet was possible.
Working with UNIX and the Internet
1981 Horton was a member of the technical department of Bell Labs in Columbus, Ohio. At Bell Labs, they ported Berkeley UNIX to UNIX System V and worked in 1987 at Bell Labs data center on providing Bell Labs with Usenet and email services. Horton led the first moderated newsgroups one, including talk.origins and distinguished them by name tag like " mod" or " announce ".
The initially very complex Usenet addresses have been simplified with the introduction of Internet domains in 1983, Horton's publication "What is a domain? " contributed to its dissemination.
In 1984, Horton some volunteers to collaborate on the UUCP Mapping Project together, which was advancing regional, geographical distinctions with. These included the mid-80s, the early domain name. ARPA. UUCP. CSNET, and. BITNET as overarching domains. 1986 Horton UUCP represented at a conference in Berlin. The proposal by Ken Harren stone of ARPANET, as top level domains COM, EDU, ORG, NET, GOV and MIL introduce, was adopted here and is considered a forerunner of ICANN. Horton took over and implemented the name changes in the UUCP area.
Horton successfully published in 1990 a book on C programming in a portable version. and was involved in early firewall and messenger systems. In 2000, she was with Avaya executives in the area of in-house mail system and in 2002 to Bank One. In 2007, she took a job at Sempra Energy in San Diego in her adopted home California.
Transsexualism
Horton is a transsexual. In 1987 she was called Mary Ann. Horton founded in 1989 Columbus' first transgender support group, the Crystal Club. 1997 Horton member of EQUAL, the LGBT employee initiative was. To occur in the workplace open, she held a substantial progress and economic advantage and has been done by management about the Equal Opportunity ( EO) directive at Lucent support. Previously, no big company Transgender had recognized.
At that time, Horton identified as a crossdresser and sometimes pretended to be Mark and sometimes as Mary Ann. When the EO firms determination was published, Horton worked primarily as Mark, but occasionally also as Mary Ann. She was the first known crossdresser, which was successfully employed in a large company and was involved in the recognition of their gender identity in the regulations of all companies in which they worked.
Presence
Horton has two sons from a previous relationship and currently resides in Poway, California with her partner Ramona Nash.