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Lynn Conway MSEE, age 82. An engineer, she was one of the early pioneers in computer chip design.
In 1968, she was fired by IBM for telling her employer that she planned to undergo sex-reassignment surgery. She was hired by the ground-breaking team at Xerox PARC as a woman and hid her reassignment from her new employer. She later joined DARPA working on US Defense Department supercomputer projects and later in her life, taught at MIT and UMichigan.
In 2000, she came out as a transgender woman. In 2020, IBM formally apologized for firing her 52 years earlier.
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Remembering Lynn Conway, of the Conway Effect, Who Helped Launch the Computing Revolution
Lynn Conway, a trans woman and advocate for LGBTQ rights, was underappreciated and often underrecognized for her work in chip designwww.scientificamerican.com
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