Matt Blaze on Nostr: Lynn Conway, pioneer in VLSI design and computer architecture, passed away on June ...
Lynn Conway, pioneer in VLSI design and computer architecture, passed away on June 9th at the age of 86. Her impact on modern computing was enormous, and a generation of computer scientists (myself included) learned the foundations of hardware from her book.
She was badly mistreated by IBM, which fired her when she came out as trans.
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