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Lynn Conway

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Lynn Ann Conway (born January 2, 1938) is an American computer scientist, electrical engineer, inventor, and transgender activist. [1]

49 relations: ACS-1, Andrea James, Andy Bechtolsheim, Bert Sutherland, Blanchard's transsexualism typology, Carver Mead, CMOS, Computer History Museum, Computer Pioneer Award, Conway (surname), Douglas Ousterhout, Electronic design automation, Galileo's Middle Finger, Harold Pender Award, History of transgender people in the United States, IEEE/RSE James Clerk Maxwell Medal, Index of electrical engineering articles, Index of women scientists articles, J. Michael Bailey, January 2, John Price Wetherill Medal, LGBT culture in Metro Detroit, LGBT history in Michigan, List of electrical engineers, List of LGBT rights activists, List of members of the National Academy of Engineering (Computer science), List of people associated with PARC, List of pioneers in computer science, List of transgender people, List of University of Michigan faculty and staff, List of women innovators and inventors by country, List of women inventors, Marek Kohn, Mead & Conway revolution, Metastability (electronics), Michael Wellman, Microcomputer revolution, MOSIS, Multi-project wafer service, The Man Who Would Be Queen, Trans woman, Transsexual, Very-large-scale integration, VLSI Project, VLSI Technology, Washing out mouth with soap, White Plains, New York, Xerox Alto, 1938 in science.

ACS-1

The ACS-1 and ACS-360 are two related supercomputers designed by IBM as part of the IBM Advanced Computing Systems project from 1961 to 1969.

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Andrea James

Andrea Jean James (born January 16, 1967) is an American transgender rights activist, film producer, and blogger.

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Andy Bechtolsheim

Andreas Maria Maximilian Freiherr von Mauchenheim genannt Bechtolsheim (born 30 September 1955), known as Andy Bechtolsheim, is a German electrical engineer, entrepreneur, investor, and self-made billionaire.

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Bert Sutherland

William Robert "Bert" Sutherland (born May 10, 1936), older brother of Ivan Sutherland, was the longtime manager of three prominent research labs, including Sun Microsystems Laboratories (1992–1998), the Systems Science Laboratory at Xerox PARC (1975–1981), and the Computer Science Division of Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Inc.

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Blanchard's transsexualism typology

Blanchard's transsexualism typology, also Blanchard autogynephilia theory and Blanchard's taxonomy, is a psychological typology of male-to-female (MtF) transsexualism created by Ray Blanchard through the 1980s and 1990s, building on the work of his colleague, Kurt Freund.

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Carver Mead

Carver Andress Mead (born 1 May 1934) is an American scientist and engineer.

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CMOS

Complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor, abbreviated as CMOS, is a technology for constructing integrated circuits.

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Computer History Museum

The Computer History Museum (CHM) is a museum established in 1996 in Mountain View, California, US.

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Computer Pioneer Award

The Computer Pioneer Award was established in 1981 by the Board of Governors of the IEEE Computer Society to recognize and honor the vision of those people whose efforts resulted in the creation and continued vitality of the computer industry.

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Conway (surname)

Conway is a Welsh, Irish & Scottish surname, It is not clear where the name originated.

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Douglas Ousterhout

Douglas K. Ousterhout, MD, DDS, is a retired craniofacial surgeon who practiced in San Francisco, CA, United States.

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Electronic design automation

Electronic design automation (EDA), also referred to as electronic computer-aided design (ECAD), is a category of software tools for designing electronic systems such as integrated circuits and printed circuit boards.

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Galileo's Middle Finger

Galileo's Middle Finger is a 2015 book about the ethics of medical research by Alice Dreger, an American bioethicist and author.

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Harold Pender Award

The Harold Pender Award, initiated in 1972 and named after founding Dean Harold Pender, is given by the Faculty of the School of Engineering and Applied Science of the University of Pennsylvania to an outstanding member of the engineering profession who has achieved distinction by significant contributions to society.

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History of transgender people in the United States

This article addresses the history of transgender people in the United States from prior to western contact until the present.

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IEEE/RSE James Clerk Maxwell Medal

The IEEE/RSE James Clerk Maxwell Medal is an award given by the IEEE and Royal Society of Edinburgh, UK in recognition of "groundbreaking contributions that have had an exceptional impact on the development of electronics and electrical engineering, or related fields".

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Index of electrical engineering articles

This is an alphabetical list of articles pertaining specifically to electrical and electronics engineering.

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Index of women scientists articles

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J. Michael Bailey

John Michael Bailey (born July 2, 1957) is an American psychologist and professor at Northwestern University.

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January 2

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John Price Wetherill Medal

The John Price Wetherill Medal was an award of the Franklin Institute.

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LGBT culture in Metro Detroit

The LGBT community in Metro Detroit is centered in Ferndale, Michigan, as of 2007.

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LGBT history in Michigan

From 1660 to 1763, Michigan was part of the Royal Province of New France, which included France's laws making sodomy a capital offense.

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List of electrical engineers

This is a list of electrical engineers (by no means exhaustive), people who have made notable contributions to electrical engineering or computer engineering.

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List of LGBT rights activists

A list of notable LGBT rights activists who have worked to advance LGBT rights by political change, legal action or publication.

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List of members of the National Academy of Engineering (Computer science)

This list is a subsection of the List of members of the National Academy of Engineering, which includes over 2,000 current members of the United States National Academy of Engineering, each of whom is affiliated with one of 12 disciplinary sections.

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List of people associated with PARC

Many notable computer scientists and others have been associated with PARC (Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated, formerly Xerox PARC).

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List of pioneers in computer science

This article presents a list of individuals who made transformative breakthroughs in the creation, development and imagining of what computers and electronics could do.

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List of transgender people

This list consists of many notable people who identify as transgender.

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List of University of Michigan faculty and staff

The University of Michigan has 6,200 faculty members and roughly 38,000 employees which include National Academy members, and Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners.

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List of women innovators and inventors by country

This is a list of notable women innovators and inventors displayed by country.

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List of women inventors

This is an alphabetical list of women inventors.

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Marek Kohn

Marek Kohn is a British science writer on evolution, biology and society.

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Mead & Conway revolution

The Mead & Conway revolution was a very-large-scale integration (VLSI) design revolution which resulted in a worldwide restructuring of academic education, and was paramount for the development of industries based on the application of microelectronics.

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Metastability (electronics)

Metastability in electronics is the ability of a digital electronics system to persist for an unbounded time in an unstable equilibrium or metastable state.

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Michael Wellman

Michael Paul Wellman (born March 27, 1961) is the Lynn A. Conway Collegiate Professor of Computer Science & Engineering and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs for the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

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Microcomputer revolution

The microcomputer revolution (or personal computer revolution or digital revolution) is a phrase used to describe the rapid advances of microprocessor-based computers from esoteric hobby projects to a commonplace fixture of homes in industrial societies during the 1970s and 1980s.

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MOSIS

MOSIS (Metal Oxide Semiconductor Implementation Service) provides chip design tools and related services that enable universities, government agencies, research institutes and businesses to prototype chips efficiently and cost-effectively.

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Multi-project wafer service

Multi-project chip (MPC), also known as multi-project wafer (MPW), services integrate onto microelectronics wafers a number of different integrated circuit designs from various teams including designs from private firms, students and researchers from universities.

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The Man Who Would Be Queen

The Man Who Would Be Queen: The Science of Gender-Bending and Transsexualism is a 2003 book by the psychologist J. Michael Bailey, published by Joseph Henry Press.

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Trans woman

A trans woman (sometimes trans-woman or transwoman) is a woman who was assigned male at birth.

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Transsexual

Transsexual people experience a gender identity that is inconsistent with, or not culturally associated with, their assigned sex, and desire to permanently transition to the gender with which they identify, usually seeking medical assistance (including hormone replacement therapy and other sex reassignment therapies) to help them align their body with their identified sex or gender.

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Very-large-scale integration

Very-large-scale integration (VLSI) is the process of creating an integrated circuit (IC) by combining hundreds of thousands of transistors or devices into a single chip.

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VLSI Project

DARPA's VLSI (very-large-scale integration) Project provided research funding to a wide variety of university-based teams in an effort to improve the state of the art in microprocessor design, then known as VLSI.

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VLSI Technology

VLSI Technology, Inc., was a company which designed and manufactured custom and semi-custom Integrated circuits (ICs).

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Washing out mouth with soap

Washing out mouth with soap is a traditional form of physical punishment that consists in placing soap, or a similar cleansing agent, inside a person's mouth so that the person will taste it, inducing what most people consider an unpleasant experience.

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White Plains, New York

White Plains is a city in Westchester County, New York, United States.

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Xerox Alto

The Xerox Alto is the first computer designed from its inception to support an operating system based on a graphical user interface (GUI), later using the desktop metaphor.

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1938 in science

The year 1938 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Conway

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