Audrey Tang
| Audrey Tang | |
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| 唐鳳 | |
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| Minister without Portfolio | |
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Assumed office 1 October 2016 |
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| Premier | Lin Chuan |
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| Born | 18 April 1981 (age 35) |
| Nationality |
 Republic of China
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| Political party | Independent |
| Audrey Tang | |||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 唐鳳 | ||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 唐凤 | ||||||||
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| Original name | |||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 唐宗漢 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 唐宗汉 | ||||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Táng Fèng |
| Wade–Giles | T'ang2 Fêng4 |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Táng Zōnghàn |
| Wade–Giles | T'ang2 Tsung1-han4 |
Audrey Tang (born April 18, 1981; formerly known as Autrijus Tang) is a Taiwanese free software programmer, who has been described as one of the "ten greats of Taiwanese computing." In August 2016, she was invited to join the Taiwan Executive Yuan as a minister without portfolio, making her the first transgender official in the top executive cabinet.
Tang's parents are Tang Kuang-hua and Lee Ya-ching. Tang showed an early interest in computers, beginning to learn Perl programming at age 12. Two years later, she dropped out of high school, unable to adapt to student life. By the year 2000, at the age of 19, Tang had already held positions in software companies, and worked in California's Silicon Valley as an entrepreneur.
In late 2005, Tang began transitioning to female, including changing her English and Chinese names, citing a need to reconcile her outward appearance with her self-image. When her gender transition is brought up, Tang has said, ″I've been shutting reality off and lived almost exclusively on the net for many years, because my brain knows for sure that I am a woman, but the social expectations demand otherwise″
The Television news channel of Republic of China, ETToday, reports that she has an IQ of 180. She is a vocal proponent for autodidacticism and individualist anarchism.
Tang is better known for initiating and leading the Pugs project, a joint effort from the Haskell and Perl communities to implement the Perl 6 language; she has also made contributions to internationalization and localization efforts for several Free Software programs, including SVK (for which she also wrote a large portion of the code), Request Tracker, and Slash, as well as heading Traditional Chinese translation efforts for various open source-related books.
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