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Old 04-15-2019, 08:14 AM   #2171
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Originally Posted by BigRedChief View Post
Glad to see. I’ve seen a lot of very smart women develop algorithms not get their due.
Technically, Katie Bouman was only one scientist out of many hundreds that worked on that project. She's getting all the credit because of an incorrect tweet claiming she "Single handedly" wrote the algorithm. But that couldn't be further from the case. Out of the ~900,000 lines of code for the algorithm, Katie only wrote about 2,000 lines. She just happened to be featured in a photo and the media has run with it.

Also... somebody tell Nancy it's "STEM" not "STEAM."
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