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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 »

Transgender IT pioneer Lynn Conway dies at 86

Lynn Conway, the technology pioneer and transgender pioneer who helped revolutionize the microchip industry, has died at the age of 86. Conway, a talented computer architect in California’s Silicon Valley in the 1960s and ’70s, invented a new method of microchip design that now powers nearly every digital device in our lives, from smartphones to… Read More »