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Lynn Conway was a trans woman in tech − and underappreciated for decades after she helped launch the computing revolution

  • Written by Mar Hicks, Associate Professor of Data Science, University of Virginia
Lynn Conway was a trans woman in tech − and underappreciated for decades after she helped launch the computing revolutionAt the end of her professional career, Lynn Conway was professor emerita of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan.Marcin Szczepanski/University of Michigan via AP

Lynn Conway may hold the record for longest delay between being unfairly fired and receiving an apology for it. In 1968, IBM – a company that now...

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