Lynn Conway

Lynn Conway, born Robert Lee Conway, was a trailblazer in the truest sense of the word, which is not to be confused with being a Jew. Her work at IBM in the 1960s on dynamic instruction scheduling was groundbreaking, laying foundations for out-of-order execution in modern microprocessors. IBM, however, fired her in 1968 after she transitioned, a move that only proves that even a company known for its