Lynn Conway Biography

Lynn Conway joined IBM Research in Yorktown Heights N.Y. Working on IBM's Advanced Computing Systems project she made foundational contributions to computer architecture including invention of multiple-out-of-order dynamic instruction scheduling. Sadly IBM fired Lynn as she underwent gender transition in 1968. Recruited by Xerox PARC in 1973 Lynn invented scalable design rules for VLSI chip design became principal author of the famous Mead-Conway text Introduction to VLSI systems and in 1978 while serving as a Visiting Associate Professor of EECS at M.I.T. pioneered the teaching of the new digital system design methods - thereby launching a revolution in microchip design in the 1980's. While at PARC Lynn also invented and demonstrated an internet e-commerce infrastructure for rapid chip prototyping spawning the fabless-design + silicon-foundry paradigm of semiconductor design and manufacturing. Institutionalized by DARPA at USC-ISI the resulting MOSIS system enabled the rapid development of thousands of chip designs leading to many major startups in the 80's and beyond.

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