In 2020, Conway received an unexpected gift: A formal apology from IBM for firing her 52 years earlier as she transitioned.
Lynn Conway answers a question from the audience at the Own It Leading Inclusion: Gender In Engineering keynote event on Nov. 18, 2014. Conway died on June 9. She was 86 years old.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.
As I wrote in 2000, Conway had visualized a nearly seamless transition. IBM was supportive, at least at first. It was willing to change the name on company records and execute a transfer to another lab, giving the employee henceforth known as Lynn Conway a fresh start. The family went on welfare for three months. Conway’s wife barred her from contact with her daughters. She would not see them again for 14 years.
VLSI fostered a revolution in computer microprocessor design that included the Pentium chip, which would power millions of PCs. Conway spread the VLSI gospel by creating a system in which students taking courses at MIT and other technical institutions could get their sample designs rendered in silicon.
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