Mary Ann Horton
American computer scientist and Usenet pioneer (born 1955) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mary Ann Horton (born Mark Randolph 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]
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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.