Lynn Ann Conway was born on January 2,1938 and is an American computer scientist, electrical engineer and transgender activist.
21 Facts About Lynn Conway
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Lynn Conway worked at IBM in the 1960s and invented generalized dynamic instruction handling, a key advance used in out-of-order execution, used by most modern computer processors to improve performance.
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Lynn Conway became fascinated by astronomy and did well in math and science in high school.
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Lynn Conway was recruited by IBM Research in Yorktown Heights, New York in 1964, and was 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 Computing Systems project, inventing multiple-issue out-of-order dynamic instruction scheduling while working there.
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Lynn Conway joined Xerox PARC in 1973, where she led the "LSI Systems" group under Bert Sutherland.
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Two years into its success, Mead and Lynn Conway received Electronics magazine's annual award of achievement.
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Lynn Conway joined the University of Michigan in 1985 as professor of electrical engineering and computer science, and associate dean of engineering.
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Lynn Conway retired from active teaching and research in 1998, as professor emerita at Michigan.
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Subsequently the scope of Lynn Conway's contributions gained wider retrospective attention.
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When nearing retirement, Lynn Conway learned that the story of her early work at IBM might soon be revealed through the investigations of Mark Smotherman that were being prepared for a 2001 publication.
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Lynn Conway began quietly coming out in 1999 to friends and colleagues about her past gender transition, using her personal website to tell the story in her own words.
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Lynn Conway's story was then more widely reported in 2000 in profiles in Scientific American and the Los Angeles Times.
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Lynn Conway has worked to protect and expand the rights of transgender people.
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Lynn Conway has provided direct and indirect assistance to numerous other transgender women going through transition and maintains a website providing medical resources and emotional advice.
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Lynn Conway maintained a listing of many successful post-transition transgender people, to, in her words "provide role models for individuals who are facing gender transition".
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Lynn Conway has advocated for equal opportunities and employment protections for transgender people in high-technology industry, and for elimination of the pathologization of transgender people by the psychiatric community.
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Lynn Conway has been a critic of the Blanchard, Bailey, and Lawrence theory of male-to-female transsexualism that all trans women are motivated either by feminine homosexuality or autogynephilia.
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Lynn Conway was a key person in the campaign against J Michael Bailey's book about the theory, The Man Who Would Be Queen.
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Lynn Conway was a cast member in the first all-transgender performance of The Vagina Monologues in Los Angeles in 2004, and appeared in a LOGO-Channel documentary film about that event entitled Beautiful Daughters.
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In 2009, Lynn Conway was named one of the "Stonewall 40 trans heroes" on the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots by the International Court System, one of the oldest and largest predominantly gay organizations in the world, and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.
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In 1987, Lynn Conway met her husband Charles "Charlie" Rogers, a professional engineer who shares her interest in the outdoors, including whitewater canoeing and motocross racing.