Lynn Conway

Lynn Conway
Lynn Conway
	Conway in 2006
Born	January 2, 1938; Mount Vernon, New York, U.S.
Alma mater	Columbia University
Known for	Mead–Conway VLSI chip design revolution; transgender activism;
Spouse	Charles Rogers (m. 2002)
Awards	Harold Pender Award (1984); John Price Wetherill Medal (1985); Secretary of Defense Meritorious Civilian Service Award (1985); National Academy of Engineering (1989); Computer Pioneer Award (2009); Computer History Museum Fellow (2014); IEEE/RSE James Clerk Maxwell Medal (2015); National Inventors Hall of Fame (2023);
	Scientific career
Fields	Computer science; Electrical engineering;
Institutions	IBM Advanced Computing Systems (1964–68), Memorex, Xerox PARC (1970s), DARPA, University of Michigan

Lynn Ann Conway (born January 2, 1938) 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. She initiated the Mead–Conway VLSI chip design revolution in very large scale integrated (VLSI) microchip design. That revolution spread rapidly through the research universities and computing industries during the 1980s, incubating an emerging electronic design automation industry, spawning the modern 'foundry' infrastructure for chip design and production, and triggering a rush of impactful high-tech startups in the 1980s and 1990s.

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