Lynn Conway

Lynn Conway
Lynn Conway
	Conway in 2006
Born	January 2, 1938 (age 86); Mount Vernon, New York, U.S.
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Columbia University
Known for	Mead & Conway revolution, transgender activism
Spouse	Charles Rogers (m. 2002)
Awards	Harold Pender Award (1984); John Price Wetherill Medal (1985); Secretary of Defense Meritorious Civilian Service Award (1985); National Academy of Engineering (1989); Computer Pioneer Award (2009); Computer History Museum Fellow (2014); IEEE/RSE James Clerk Maxwell Medal (2015);
	Scientific career
Fields	Computer science; Electrical engineering
Institutions	IBM Advanced Computing Systems (1964–68), Memorex, Xerox PARC (1970s), DARPA, University of Michigan
Influences	Charles Proteus Steinmetz; Edwin Howard Armstrong; Claude Shannon; John Cocke; Bert Sutherland; Ivan Sutherland; Carver Mead; Bob Kahn;

Lynn Ann Conway (born January 2, 1938)^[3]^[4] is an American computer scientist, electrical engineer, inventor, and transgender activist.^[5]

She worked at IBM in the 1960s. She is known for her invention of generalized dynamic instruction handling. She is also widely-known for the Mead & Conway revolution.^[6]^[7]^[8]^[9]^[10]

Born a male, Conway transitioned into a woman.^[11] After IBM found out about this, she was fired in 1968. In 2020, IBM apologized for firing Conway.^[12]

References[change | change source]

↑ Saari, Peggy; Allison, Stephen; Ellavich, Marie C. (1996). Scientists: A-F. U-X-L. ISBN 978-0-7876-0960-3.
↑ "CHM 2014 Fellow "For her work in developing and disseminating new methods of integrated circuit design"". Computerhistory.org. Archived from the original on July 3, 2016. Retrieved April 10, 2018.
↑ Lee, John A. N. (1995). International Biographical Dictionary of Computer Pioneers. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 1-884964-47-8.
↑ "Computer Pioneers - Lynn Conway". IEEE. Archived from the original on November 10, 2014. Retrieved November 10, 2014.
↑ "21 Transgender People Who Influenced American Culture". Time Magazine. May 29, 2014.
↑ "Lynn Conway: 2009 Computer Pioneer Award Recipient" Archived January 3, 2015, at the Wayback Machine, IEEE Computer Society, January 20, 2010.
↑ "IEEE Computer Society Video: Lynn Conway receives 2009 IEEE Computer Society Computer Pioneer Award" at YouTube, July 30, 2010.
↑ "Event: IBM ACS System: A Pioneering Supercomputer Project of the 1960s", Computer History Museum, February 18, 2010.
↑ "Computer History Museum Events: IBM ACS System: A Pioneering Supercomputer Project of the 1960s" Archived September 28, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, Computer History Museum, February 18, 2010.
↑ "Historical Reflections: IBM's Single-Processor Supercomputer Efforts – Insights on the pioneering IBM Stretch and ACS projects" by M. Smotherman and D. Spicer, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 53, No. 12, December 2010, pp. 28–30.
↑ Conway, Lynn (2012). "Reminiscences of the VLSI revolution: How a series of failures triggered a paradigm shift in digital design" (PDF). IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine. 4 (4). IEEE: 8–31. doi:10.1109/MSSC.2012.2215752. ISSN 1943-0582. S2CID 9286356.
↑ Alicandri, Jeremy. "IBM Apologizes For Firing Computer Pioneer For Being Transgender...52 Years Later". Forbes.

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[1] Saari, Peggy; Allison, Stephen; Ellavich, Marie C. (1996). Scientists: A-F. U-X-L. ISBN 978-0-7876-0960-3.

[2] "CHM 2014 Fellow "For her work in developing and disseminating new methods of integrated circuit design"". Computerhistory.org. Archived from the original on July 3, 2016. Retrieved April 10, 2018.

[Lee1995-3] Lee, John A. N. (1995). International Biographical Dictionary of Computer Pioneers. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 1-884964-47-8.

[4] "Computer Pioneers - Lynn Conway". IEEE. Archived from the original on November 10, 2014. Retrieved November 10, 2014.

[Time21Culture-5] "21 Transgender People Who Influenced American Culture". Time Magazine. May 29, 2014.

[comsocpioneeraward-6] "Lynn Conway: 2009 Computer Pioneer Award Recipient" Archived January 3, 2015, at the Wayback Machine, IEEE Computer Society, January 20, 2010.

[comsocpioneersawardvideo-7] "IEEE Computer Society Video: Lynn Conway receives 2009 IEEE Computer Society Computer Pioneer Award" at YouTube, July 30, 2010.

[superproj60a-8] "Event: IBM ACS System: A Pioneering Supercomputer Project of the 1960s", Computer History Museum, February 18, 2010.

[superproj60b-9] "Computer History Museum Events: IBM ACS System: A Pioneering Supercomputer Project of the 1960s" Archived September 28, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, Computer History Museum, February 18, 2010.

[IBMsmotherman-10] "Historical Reflections: IBM's Single-Processor Supercomputer Efforts – Insights on the pioneering IBM Stretch and ACS projects" by M. Smotherman and D. Spicer, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 53, No. 12, December 2010, pp. 28–30.

[Conway2012-11] Conway, Lynn (2012). "Reminiscences of the VLSI revolution: How a series of failures triggered a paradigm shift in digital design" (PDF). IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine. 4 (4). IEEE: 8–31. doi:10.1109/MSSC.2012.2215752. ISSN 1943-0582. S2CID 9286356.

[12] Alicandri, Jeremy. "IBM Apologizes For Firing Computer Pioneer For Being Transgender...52 Years Later". Forbes.

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