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Lynn Conway

1938 - Today

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Lynn Ann Conway (born January 2, 1938) is an American computer scientist, electrical engineer and transgender activist. She worked at IBM in the 1960s and invented generalized dynamic instruction handling, a key advance used in out-of-order execution, used by most modern computer processors to improve performance. She initiated the Mead–Conway VLSI chip design revolution in very large scale integrated (VLSI) microchip design. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lynn Conway has received more than 588,647 page views. Her biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Lynn Conway is the 305th most popular inventor (up from 310th in 2019), the 6,011th most popular biography from United States (up from 6,531st in 2019) and the 77th most popular American Inventor.

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  • 590k

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  • 47.57

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.19

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Lynn Conway ranks 305 out of 354. Before her are Henry J. Kaiser, Whitcomb L. Judson, David Dunbar Buick, Jacob Ellehammer, Ivan Polzunov, and Sidney Gilchrist Thomas. After her are George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., John Fitch, Jay Miner, William Friese-Greene, Isaac Pitman, and Oleg Losev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Lynn Conway ranks 342. Before her are Ron Ely, Richard Benjamin, Barry Newman, Nani Bregvadze, Henk Groot, and Toini Gustafsson. After her are Frans van der Lugt, Gordon Lightfoot, Tura Satana, Theo-Ben Gurirab, Aristide Guarneri, and Charles Lloyd.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lynn Conway ranks 6,011 out of 18,182. Before her are Alvin M. Weinberg (1915), Joan Feynman (1927), Rachel Bilson (1981), Larry Fine (1902), Saoirse Ronan (1994), and Chaim Potok (1929). After her are Joe Lando (1961), Bob Sapp (1973), Morris Louis (1912), Estelle Parsons (1927), Dave Alexander (1947), and Caleb Bradham (1867).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Lynn Conway ranks 77. Before her are Ralph Hartley (1888), Tabitha Babbitt (1779), Almon Brown Strowger (1839), Henry M. Leland (1843), Henry J. Kaiser (1882), and Whitcomb L. Judson (1846). After her are George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. (1859), John Fitch (1743), Jay Miner (1932), Robert S. Langer (1948), Marion Donovan (1917), and Norman Joseph Woodland (1921).

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