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lynn conway

lynn conway -lrb- born january 2 , 1938 -rrb- is an american computer scientist , electrical engineer , inventor , and transgender activist .
conway is notable for a number of pioneering achievements , including the mead & conway revolution in vlsi design , which incubated an emerging electronic design automation industry .
she worked at ibm in the 1960s and is credited with the invention of generalised dynamic instruction handling , a key advance used in out-of-order execution , used by most modern computer processors to improve performance .
