Lynn Conway – Computer Scientist

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Lynn Conway – Computer Scientist – United States

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Text: Sean Dunnington, "LGBTQ History of Geography & Computers” Project)

Lynn Conway is a pioneer of microelectronics chip design with an extraordinary life story. She attended both MIT and Columbia University, and in 1964 was recruited by IBM to work on a team building an advanced supercomputer. While at IBM she transitioned from male to female, and was subsequently fired by the company in 1968 after revealing her intention to live as a woman. Conway then began living with a new name and a new identity, and was forced to rebuild her career from scratch, going on to do important work at organizations including Memorex, Xerox PARC, and DARPA. In 2014 Time magazine named her one of the “21 Transgender People Who Influenced American Culture.”  Since the early 2000's, Lynn has maintained an international website in over a dozen languages devoted to gender & trans resources:

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