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==Description==
 
==Description==
  
Award winning transgender computer scientist and electrical engineer.  Retired Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of Michigan.  Notable for a number of pioneering achievements, including the Mead & Conway revolution in VLSI design, which incubated an emerging electronic design automation industry, and invention of dimensionless, scalable design rules that greatly simplified chip design and design tools, and invention of a new form of internet-based infrastructure for rapid-prototyping and short-run fabrication of large numbers of chip designs.  LGBTQ activist.  Member, National Academy of Engineering.
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Award winning transgender computer scientist and electrical engineer.  Retired Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of Michigan.  Notable for a number of pioneering achievements, including: the Mead & Conway revolution in VLSI design, which incubated an emerging electronic design automation industry: the invention of dimensionless, scalable design rules that greatly simplified chip design and design tools; and the invention of a new form of internet-based infrastructure for rapid-prototyping and short-run fabrication of large numbers of chip designs.  LGBTQ activist.  Member, National Academy of Engineering.
  
 
==See Also==
 
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* [[Transgender Activists]]
 
* [[Transgender Activists]]
 
* [[LGBTQ Engineers]]
 
* [[LGBTQ Engineers]]
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* [[Transgender Academics]]
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* [[LGBTQ Inventors]]
  
 
==Further Reading/Research==
 
==Further Reading/Research==

Latest revision as of 21:41, 17 July 2023

Lynn Conway

Country

United States

Birth - Death

1938 -

Occupation

Scientist

Description

Award winning transgender computer scientist and electrical engineer. Retired Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of Michigan. Notable for a number of pioneering achievements, including: the Mead & Conway revolution in VLSI design, which incubated an emerging electronic design automation industry: the invention of dimensionless, scalable design rules that greatly simplified chip design and design tools; and the invention of a new form of internet-based infrastructure for rapid-prototyping and short-run fabrication of large numbers of chip designs. LGBTQ activist. Member, National Academy of Engineering.

See Also

Further Reading/Research