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    Lynn Conway, leading computer scientist and transgender pioneer, dies at 86

    Lynn Conway was the bravest person I ever knew. It wasn't merely her struggle to make her way in the male-dominated computer engineering world of the 1960s and 1970s. It was that she did so, with spectacular success, while contending with her own psyche, her family and her bosses at IBM to complete her transgender transition. Conway died Sunday, according to her husband, Charles Rogers, at ...
    by Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times Jun 12, 2024 5 minutes
    Lynn Conway answers a question from the audience at the Own It Leading Inclusion: Gender In Engineering keynote event on Nov. 18, 2014. Conway died on June 9. She was 86 years old.

    Lynn Conway was the bravest person I ever knew.

    It wasn't merely her struggle to make her way in the male-dominated computer engineering world of the 1960s and 1970s. It was that she did so, with spectacular success, while contending with her own psyche, her family and her bosses at IBM to complete her transgender transition.

    Conway died Sunday, according to her husband, Charles Rogers, at home in Jackson, Michigan, of a heart condition.

    As I recounted in 2020, I first met Conway when I was working on my 1999 book about Xerox PARC, for which she was a uniquely valuable source. In 2000, when she decided to come out as transgender, she allowed me to chronicle her life in a cover story for the Los Angeles Times Magazine titled

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