Lynn Conway
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| Gender | Female |
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| Age | 87 |
| 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.