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发表于 8-8-2023 15:34:12 | 只看该作者 回帖奖励 |倒序浏览 |阅读模式
Full name: Lynn Ann Conway. But this is not her birth name, which I can not find. She was born as a male, and as an adult, received gender-reassignment surgery, and lives as a woman with (biologically male) husband.

(1) Lynn Conway
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Conway
(1938- )

Quote: "Conway entered MIT in 1955, earning high grades but ultimately leaving in despair after an attempted gender transition, from male to female in 1957–58, failed * * * After working as an electronics technician for several years, Conway resumed education at Columbia University's School of Engineering and Applied Science, earning BS and MSEE degrees in 1962 and 1963/ * * * Conway was recruited by IBM Research in Yorktown Heights, New York in 1964 * * * Although she had hoped to be allowed to transition on the job, IBM fired Conway in 1968 after she revealed her intention to transition. IBM apologized for this in 2020. * * * Conway joined Xerox PARC in 1973, where she led the "LSI Systems" group under Bert Sutherland. * * * In 1978, Conway served as visiting associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, teaching a now famous VLSI design course * * * In the early 1980s, Conway left Xerox to join DARPA * * * Conway joined the University of Michigan in 1985 as professor of electrical engineering and computer science, and associate dean of engineering. * * * She retired from active teaching and research in 1998, as professor emerita at Michigan.


(2) Lynn Conway, Lynn's Story. undated; four pages.
https://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/LynnsStory.html

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