COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Lynn Conway

1938 - 2024

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Lynn Ann Conway (January 2, 1938 – June 9, 2024) was an American computer scientist, electrical engineer, and transgender activist. Conway worked at IBM in the 1960s and invented generalized dynamic instruction handling, a key advancement used in out-of-order execution, used by most modern computer processors to improve performance. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lynn Conway has received more than 1,069,171 page views. Her biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Lynn Conway is the 118th most popular computer scientist (up from 305th in 2019), the 6,360th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,999th in 2019) and the 69th most popular American Computer Scientist.

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  • 48.45

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.89

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Lynn Conway ranks 118 out of 245. Before her are Liu Gang, Rasmus Lerdorf, Scott Fahlman, Peter Norton, Kenneth E. Iverson, and Kateryna Yushchenko. After her are Shafi Goldwasser, Robert Fano, Bram Moolenaar, Robert C. Martin, Jack Dongarra, and Arthur Samuel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Lynn Conway ranks 375. Before her are Theodoros Pangalos, Heidi Schmid, Norbert Ratsirahonana, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Viktor Zhdanovich, and Luiz of Orléans-Braganza. After her are Victor Buono, Diana Muldaur, Carmela Corren, Carlos Lapetra, Jô Soares, and Fred Williamson. Among people deceased in 2024, Lynn Conway ranks 266. Before her are Piedad Córdoba, Elias Khoury, Józef Szmidt, Eugenio Dal Corso, Kagney Linn Karter, and Ben Vautier. After her are Eliyahu Rips, Anatoliy Konkov, Brian Lumley, Lou Donaldson, Robert Towne, and Imre Komora.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lynn Conway ranks 6,360 out of 20,380. Before her are Michael Lerner (1941), Mary McCarthy (1912), Priscilla Lane (1915), Masten Gregory (1932), Bernard Nathanson (1926), and Michael Kremer (1964). After her are Jane Greer (1924), Wendell Willkie (1892), Barbara La Marr (1896), Harold D. Babcock (1882), Hunter Tylo (1962), and Bobby Womack (1944).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Lynn Conway ranks 69. Before her are Robert W. Floyd (1936), John Hopcroft (1939), Robert Taylor (1932), David A. Huffman (1925), Scott Fahlman (1948), and Peter Norton (1943). After her are Shafi Goldwasser (1958), Jack Dongarra (1950), Arthur Samuel (1901), Bill Joy (1954), Andy Rubin (1963), and Phil Zimmermann (1954).

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