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  2. Lynn Conway - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Lynn Conway, leading computer scientist and transgender ... - AOL

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    Lynn Conway, who died Sunday at 86, was a leader in the development of personal computers and microprocessor technology, and a symbol for generations of transgender individuals.

  4. ‘The bravest person I ever knew’: Transgender computing ...

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    Lynn Conway, the tech pioneer and transgender trailblazer who helped revolutionize the microchip industry, has died at the age of 86. As a gifted computer architect in California’s Silicon ...

  5. ‘I lived a pretty adventurous life’: Meet Lynn Conway, the ...

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    Her ideas launched a global microchip revolution – but for years she was afraid to claim her share of credit. Io Dodds meets the LGBT+ pioneer who helped create the modern world

  6. VLSI Technology - Wikipedia

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    VLSI Technology, Inc., was an American company that designed and manufactured custom and semi-custom integrated circuits (ICs). The company was based in Silicon Valley, with headquarters at 1109 McKay Drive in San Jose.

  7. Direct selling - Wikipedia

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    Direct selling is a business model that involves a party buying products from a parent organization and selling them directly to customers. It can take the form of either single-level marketing (in which a direct seller makes money purely from sales) and multi-level marketing (in which the direct seller may earn money from both direct sales to customers and by sponsoring new direct sellers and ...

  8. IBM apologizes to ‘tech trailblazer’ Lynn Conway for firing ...

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    A brilliant computer scientist whose work helped to shape the internet era is finally getting a public apology from IBM — more than 50 years after she was fired for being trans. Lynn Conway is ...

  9. VLSI Project - Wikipedia

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    The VLSI Project was a DARPA-program initiated by Robert Kahn in 1978 [1] that provided research funding to a wide variety of university-based teams in an effort to improve the state of the art in microprocessor design, then known as Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI).