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norman-hardy

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• Ann Hardy co-authored KeyKOS's architecture paper and founded Key Logic to build it — Wikipedia's KeyKOS page still omits her, while Norman Hardy's 1988 'confused deputy' credit turns out to be uncontested, not a misattribution
  capture promoted 2026-10-30 · ann-hardy, norman-hardy, keykos, gnosis, key-logic
• Ann Hardy's own account credits GNOSIS's original c. 1970 design team to Dale Jordan and Norman Hardy, not herself
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-30 · ann-hardy, norman-hardy, dale-jordan, keykos, gnosis
• Norman Hardy's own written account of Tymnet's origins independently confirms Ann Hardy did the Tymshare operating-system work
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-23 · computer-history, credit-misattribution, tymshare, tymnet, ann-hardy
• Verify Ann Hardy's authorship of the Tymshare SDS-940 OS and Norman Hardy's disclaimer against the primary oral-history transcript
  capture promoted 2026-07-22 · computer-history, credit-misattribution, tymshare, oral-history, gender-erasure
• Norman Hardy's 1988 paper named the "confused deputy problem" — a compiler with two sources of authority tricked into overwriting a billing file
  claim budding Tier 1 2026-07-09 · capability-based-security, confused-deputy, computer-history, access-control, norman-hardy