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Lynn Ann Conway (January 2, 1938 – June 9, 2024) was an American computer scientist, electrical engineer, and transgender activist.. In the 1960s, while working at IBM, Conway invented generalized dynamic instruction handling, a key advancement used in out-of-order execution, used by most modern computer processors to improve performance.
Lynn Conway died last Sunday at the age of 86, after a long life at the heart of two revolutions. One was the computer revolution, which she helped accelerate by co-inventing a new method of ...
Lynn Conway (right) with her husband Charles W Rogers in 2006. She has passed away at age 86. (Lynn Conway) After her retirement, she came out publicly and began sharing her story on her personal ...
Lynn Conway was the bravest person I ever knew. It wasn't merely her struggle to make her way in the male-dominated computer engineering world of the 1960s and 1970s.
Roberta Williams and her husband Ken, founded Sierra Online and pioneered the graphic adventure game format in Mystery House and the King's Quest series. The games had a friendly graphical user interface and introduced humor and puzzles. Cited as an important game designer, her influence spread from Sierra to other companies such as LucasArts ...
Andrea Jean James (born January 16, 1967) is an American transgender rights activist, film producer, and blogger.. Herself a transgender woman, James has been a leading figure in protests against the work of sexologists including Ray Blanchard and J. Michael Bailey who she argues engage in the academic exploitation of transgender people.
Lynn Conway with her husband Charles W Rogers in 2006 (Lynn Conway) Wackiness was hardly unusual in early Silicon Valley. After graduating from Columbia University in the early Sixties, Conway had ...
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