Lynn Conway
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Gender | Female |
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Age | 86 |
Date of birth | January 2,1938 |
Zodiac sign | Capricorn |
Born | Mount Vernon |
New York | |
United States | |
Spouse(s) | Charles Rogers |
Known for | Mead & Conway revolution |
Transgender rights movement | |
Mead-Conway VLSI chip design revolution | |
Job | Inventor |
Computer scientist | |
Electrical engineer | |
Education | Columbia University |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
Awards | Computer Pioneer Award |
Harold Pender Award | |
Official site | ai.eecs.umich.edu |
Full name | Lynn Ann Conway |
Alma mater | Columbia University |
Field | Electrical engineering |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 637632 |
Lynn Conway Life story
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 modern computer processors to improve performance.