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Lynn Conway
Lynn Ann Conway was an American computer scientist, electrical engineer, and transgender rights activist.
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science · American computer scientist and electrical engineer (1938–2024) · computer scientist · inventor · electrical engineer · university teacher · also Lynn Conway, Lynn A. Conway, Lynn Ann Conway, Conway
Born 2 January 1938 · Died 9 June 2024 · Q11490
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2026· 1 entry
2024· 8 entries
The Washington Post: Lynn Conway, microchip pioneer and trans rights advocate, dies at 86
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Phys.org: Lynn Conway was a trans woman in tech—and underappreciated for decades after she helped launch the computing revolution
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Awarded honorary doctor of Syracuse University (2024).
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The Boston Globe: Lynn Conway, microchip pioneer who overcame transgender discrimination, dies at 86
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LGBTQ Nation: Lynn Conway, revolutionary trans computer scientist & activist, dies at 86
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Yahoo: Lynn Conway, pioneering transgender computer scientist and activist, dies at 86
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AOL: Lynn Conway, leading computer scientist and transgender pioneer, dies at 86
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Died 2024-06-09.
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2023· 2 entries
Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (2023).
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Lynn Conway collaborated with Jim Boulton to create Lines in the Sand, a short comic book that tells the story of the invention VLSI
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2020· 2 entries
National Academy of Engineering President John L
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IBM publicly apologized to Conway for firing her at a public event with Diane Gherson, then IBM's senior vice president of human relations
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2019· 1 entry
Awarded NCWIT Pioneer in Tech Award (2019).
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2016· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2016).
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2015· 2 entries
Awarded IEEE Maxwell Award (2015).
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Was selected for inclusion in "The Trans100" and was interviewed in 2020 for inclusion in the Trans Activism Oral History Project
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2014· 3 entries
Awarded Computer History Museum Fellow (2014).
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Time Magazine named Conway as one of "21 Transgender People Who Influenced American Culture"
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The University of Michigan's The Michigan Engineer alumni magazine documented the connections between Conway's engineering explorations and her personal life
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2013· 1 entry
With support from many tech industry leaders, Conway and Leandra Vicci of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill lobbied the directors of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for transgender inc
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2012· 1 entry
Published “Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC” in Physics Letters B — cited 6,668 times.
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2009· 2 entries
Awarded Computer Pioneer Award (2009).
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Conway was named one of the "Stonewall 40 trans heroes" on the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots by the International Court System and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
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2007· 1 entry
Published “Genome-wide association study of 14,000 cases of seven common diseases and 3,000 shared controls” in Nature — cited 7,940 times.
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2004· 1 entry
And appeared in a Logo documentary film about that event entitled Beautiful Daughters
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2000· 2 entries
In profiles in Scientific American and the Los Angeles Times
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It became the transgender barrier I was breaking
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1999· 2 entries
And was a transgender rights activist until her death in 2024
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To friends and colleagues about her gender transition, using her website to tell her story
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1990· 1 entry
Awarded Society of Women Engineers Achievement Award (1990).
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1987· 1 entry
Conway met her husband Charles "Charlie" Rogers, a professional engineer who shared her interest in the outdoors, including whitewater canoeing and motocross racing
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1985· 2 entries
Won John Price Wetherill Medal (1985).
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As professor of electrical engineering and computer science and associate dean of engineering
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1984· 1 entry
Awarded Harold Pender Award (1984).
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1983· 1 entry
Conway left Xerox to join DARPA, where she was a key architect of the United States Department of Defense's Strategic Computing Initiative
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1980· 1 entry
By PARC anthropologist Lucy Suchman, who published her interviews with Conway in 2021
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1978· 1 entry
Conway served as a visiting associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, teaching a now-famous VLSI design course based on a Mead–Conway text draft
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1973· 1 entry
Where she led the "LSI Systems" group under Bert Sutherland
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1968· 4 entries
After she revealed her intention to undergo a gender transition, which the company apologized for in 2020
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After she revealed her intention to transition
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Conway was denied access to their children
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Conway took a new name and identity and restarted her career in stealth-mode as a contract programmer at Computer Applications, Inc
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1964· 1 entry
And was soon selected to join the architecture team designing an advanced supercomputer, working alongside John Cocke, Brian Randell, Herbert Schorr, Ed Sussenguth, Fran Allen and other IBM researchers on the Advanced Co
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1958· 1 entry
Studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1955–1958).
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1955· 1 entry
Conway entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and began an attempted gender transition in 1957
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1945· 1 entry
Conway and her younger brother, Blair Savage (1941–2022), were raised by their mother
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1938· 2 entries
Born 1938-01-02.
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To Christine Alice (née Burney) Savage (1904–1977) and Rufus Savage (1904–1966)
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