Today I came across an obituary of Lynn Conway, computer pioneer in the field of VLSI(along with Carver Mead) and also in one called dynamic instruction scheduling(used in supercomputing world). More to the point Conway was transgender and suffered for this, an almost forgotten pioneer in the microcomputing and supercomputing fields. Also, as a researcher at IBM and Xerox Parc where she contributed to the first years of microcomputing, the GUI and Ethernet protocol development. Eventually the IEEE recognized her contributions as did IBM - better late than never!
Murray 🙂
