She then moved on to serve as Associate Dean of Engineering and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. While working at these many exciting places, Lynn has been fortunate to have known and teamed up with many wonderful and extremely talented people. And because of her medical situation and her firing by IBM, she did this under two totally different identities which almost no one had correlated until very recently. In the past, students and others have often asked Lynn how she got involved in so many diverse, trailblazing projects. It's a good question.
Most people build their careers step by step in an orderly way.
Deep troubles and major disappointments somehow amazingly led her onto paths to great new opportunities. Arcane lessons from one project applied years later to solve important new problems. Sometimes it almost seems as if the hand of fate was guiding her. In the end, Lynn's life has been such an adventure for her, and taken so many unexpected twists and turns, that even she can't possibly explain it. This retrospective simply sketches how it unfolded.