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Lynn Conway

American computer scientist and electrical engineer · ai.eecs.umich.edu
Lynn Ann Conway is an American computer scientist, electrical engineer and transgender activist. She worked at IBM in the 1960s and invented generalized dynamic instruction handling, a key advance used in out-of-order execution, used by most... Wikipedia
Born: 1938 (age 86 years), Mount Vernon, NY
Known for: Mead–Conway VLSI chip design revolution; transgender activism
Full name: Lynn Ann Conway