A photo of Lynn Conway on a while background which has the text “DEMOCRATS ABROAD
LYNN CONWAY
Revolutionized microchip design.
A transgender computer scientist whose work in VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration)
transformed computer chip design, paving the way for modern computing.She was fired by IBM in the 1960s for being trans, but later became a respected professor and advocate.
Photo by Charles Rogers.”
Fired in 1968 for being transgender, Lynn Conway didn’t just rebuild her career—she revolutionized computing. After completing her transition in an era of brutal discrimination, she co-invented VLSI chip design (the foundation of modern tech) and became a […]
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