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Lynn Conway was a transgender woman in tech who was underappreciated for decades after helping kickstart the computer revolution

Lynn Conway may hold the record for the longest delay between being unfairly dismissed and receiving an apology for it. In 1968, IBM, a company that now covers its logo with a rainbow flag every June for Pride Month, fired Conway, who died at age 86 on June 9, 2024, when he expressed his intention… Read More »