Lynn Conway
Transgender Pioneer
January 2, 1938 – June 9, 2024
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2024-06-11/lynn-conwa...
Lynn Conway, leading computer scientist and transgender pioneer, dies at 86
"It wasn’t merely her struggle to make her way in the male-dominated computer engineering world of the 1960s and 1970s. It was that she did so, with spectacular success, while contending with her own psyche, her family and her bosses at IBM to complete her transgender transition.
Conway died Sunday, according to her husband, Charles Rogers, at home in Jackson, Mich., of a heart condition."
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Thank you
Great woman, did more than most would ever know.
Unfortunately
Ms. Conway will just be a footnote in the mainstream histories. I wish she could get proper recognition for what she did for our community.
Multi-Dimensional
Her help and support in the trans community was something much later in life. She lived most of her early part in stealth having been treated so badly by IBM. Yet her work there and then later was so important in setting to how modern computers process instructions and then later at Xerox for microprocessor design. Perhaps others would have done that work later, but it is her name on the text.
To me, her biggest gift was to show the even if you were treated like shit, you can move on and still shine. She was fired, went stealth and had no references, yet she started again and rose to do what she did at Xerox. Yeah, that takes a lot of guts and self determination.