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<div>Hi:</div>
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<div>I was delighted to see this news story about Lynn Conway at last receiving an apology from IBM for the way she was treated over her gender transition.</div>
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<div><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeremyalicandri/2020/11/18/ibm-apologizes-for-firing-computer-pioneer/" class="">https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeremyalicandri/2020/11/18/ibm-apologizes-for-firing-computer-pioneer/</a></div>
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<div>Her amazing career is well-summarised in Wikipedia - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Conway" class="">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Conway</a> </div>
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<div>I worked with Lynn in the 1960s in IBM’s ACS Project. I told the story of our collaboration, on Dynamic Instruction Scheduling, and of how I learned of her subsequent career and triumphs over adversity, in an IEEE Annals of the History of Computing paper
- whose text is available at <a href="https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/326580149.pdf" class="">https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/326580149.pdf</a></div>
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<div>Cheers</div>
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<div>Brian Randell<br class="">
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