Editing Lynn Conway (section)

==Computer science legacy==
The [[Mead–Conway VLSI chip design revolution]] quickly spread through [[research universities]] and the computing industry during the 1980s. It fostered the growth of the [[electronic design automation]] industry, established the [[foundry model]] for chip design and manufacturing, and spurred a wave of influential technology startups throughout the 1980s and 1990s.<ref name=smoth01/><ref name=comsocpioneeraward>{{cite web |title=Lynn Conway: 2009 Computer Pioneer Award Recipient |url=http://www.computer.org/portal/web/awards/conway |website=IEEE Computer Society |access-date=January 20, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150103172210/http://www.computer.org/portal/web/awards/conway |archive-date=January 3, 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=comsocpioneersawardvideo>{{Cite AV media |title=Lynn Conway receives 2009 IEEE Computer Society Computer Pioneer Award |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4Txvjia3p0 |date=July 30, 2010 |publisher=IEEE Computer Society |via=YouTube |access-date=June 8, 2024 |archive-date=May 8, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210508110318/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4Txvjia3p0 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=superproj60b>{{cite web |title=CHM Events: IBM ACS System: A Pioneering Supercomputer Project of the 1960's |url=https://computerhistory.org/events/ibm-acs-system-pioneering-supercomputer/ |website=Computer History Museum |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100420225250/http://www.computerhistory.org/events/index.php?id=1264112339 |date=February 18, 2010 |archive-date=April 20, 2010 |language=en |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=IBMsmotherman>{{cite journal |last1=Smotherman |first1=Mark |last2=Spicer |first2=Dag |title=IBM's single-processor supercomputer efforts |journal=[[Communications of the ACM]] |date=December 2010 |volume=53 |issue=12 |pages=28–30 |doi=10.1145/1859204.1859216 |url=https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/ibms-single-processor-supercomputer-efforts/ |access-date=June 7, 2024 |archive-date=June 7, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240607190134/https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/ibms-single-processor-supercomputer-efforts/ |url-status=live |url-access=subscription }}</ref>

In the fall of 2012, the [[IEEE]] published a special issue of the ''[[IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine]]'' devoted to Conway's career,<ref name="Lanzerotti2012">{{cite journal |editor-last=Lanzerotti |editor-first=Mary |year=2012 |title=Editor's Note |journal=IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine |publisher=IEEE |volume=4 |pages=1 |doi=10.1109/MSSC.2012.2214274 |url=http://www.eecs.umich.edu/eecs/about/articles/2013/VLSI_Reminiscences.pdf |access-date=June 22, 2013 |archive-date=November 29, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151129211529/http://www.eecs.umich.edu/eecs/about/articles/2013/VLSI_Reminiscences.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="eecsnews2013">[http://www.eecs.umich.edu/eecs/about/articles/2013/Conway_VLSI_memoir.html "Solid-State Circuits Publishes Special Issue with Lynn Conway's Memoir of the VLSI Revolution"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140502000158/http://www.eecs.umich.edu/eecs/about/articles/2013/Conway_VLSI_memoir.html |date=May 2, 2014 }}, Michigan EECS News, January 31, 2013.</ref> including a career memoir by Conway<ref name=Conway2012/> and peer commentaries by Chuck House,<ref name="House2012">{{cite journal |last=House |first=Chuck |year=2012 |title=A Paradigm Shift Was Happening All Around Us |journal=IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine |publisher=IEEE |volume=4 |issue=4 |pages=32–35 |issn=1943-0582 |doi=10.1109/MSSC.2012.2215759 |s2cid=8738682 |url=https://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/Memoirs/VLSI/Commentaries/A_Paradigm_Shift_Was_Happening_by_Chuck_House.pdf |access-date=February 17, 2023 |archive-date=May 8, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230508141729/http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/Memoirs/VLSI/Commentaries/A_Paradigm_Shift_Was_Happening_by_Chuck_House.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> former Director of Engineering at HP, [[Séquin|Carlo Séquin]],<ref name="Sequin2012">{{cite journal |last=Sequin |first=Carlo |year=2012 |title=Witnessing the Birth of VLSI Design |journal=IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine |publisher=IEEE |volume=4 |issue=4 |pages=36–39 |issn=1943-0582 |doi=10.1109/MSSC.2012.2215758 |s2cid=20280958 |url=http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~sequin/PAPERS/2012_SSCM_VLSI.pdf |access-date=June 24, 2013 |archive-date=November 5, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105061230/http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~sequin/PAPERS/2012_SSCM_VLSI.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> and [[Kenneth L Shepard]].<ref name="Shepard2012">{{cite journal |last=Shepard |first=Ken |year=2012 |title="Covering": How We Missed the Inside-Story of the VLSI Revolution |journal=IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine |publisher=IEEE |volume=4 |issue=4 |pages=40–42 |issn=1943-0582 |doi=10.1109/MSSC.2012.2215757 |s2cid=25240158 |url=https://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/Memoirs/VLSI/Commentaries/Covering_by_Ken_Shepard.pdf |access-date=February 17, 2023 |archive-date=March 25, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230325220825/http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/Memoirs/VLSI/Commentaries/Covering_by_Ken_Shepard.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="House2012" /> [[James F. Gibbons]] stated in his tribute that Conway, from his perspective, "was the singular force behind the entire '[[Foundry model|foundry]]' development that emerged."<ref name="House2012" /><ref name="Shepard2012" /><ref>{{cite web |last=ACM News |date=October 12, 2018 |title=Lynn Conway and the VLSI Revolution in Microchip Design |url=https://cacm.acm.org/news/231829-lynn-conway-and-the-vlsi-revolution-in-microchip-design/fulltext |website=Communications of the ACM |access-date=August 8, 2020 |archive-date=April 18, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210418014046/https://cacm.acm.org/news/231829-lynn-conway-and-the-vlsi-revolution-in-microchip-design/fulltext |url-status=live }}</ref> Subsequently the scope of Conway's contributions gained wider retrospective attention. "Since I didn't [[I Look Like an Engineer|#LookLikeanEngineer]], few people caught on to what I was really doing back in the 70s and 80s," Conway later said.<ref name=":1" />

In 2020, [[National Academy of Engineering]] President [[John L. Anderson]] stated that "Lynn Conway is not only a revolutionary pioneer in the design of VLSI systems ... But just as important, Lynn has been very brave in telling her own story, and her perseverance has been a reminder to society that it should not be blind to the innovations of women, people of color, or others who don't fit long outdated – but unfortunately, persistent – perceptions of what an engineer looks like."<ref name=":1" />

Conway named the phenomenon of women and people of color being overlooked in historical accounts of innovations "the Conway Effect."<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=CSDL {{!}} IEEE Computer Society |url=https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/co/2018/10/mco2018100066/17D45WXIkDI |access-date=June 12, 2024 |website=www.computer.org |archive-date=December 8, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201208031250/https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/co/2018/10/mco2018100066/17D45WXIkDI |url-status=live }}</ref> She described it in the [[IEEE Computer Society]]'s ''Computer'' magazine: "This is seldom deliberate—rather, it's a result of the accumulation of advantage by those who are expected to innovate."<ref name=":2" />

In 2023, Lynn Conway collaborated with Jim Boulton to create ''Lines in the Sand'',<ref>{{Cite book |last=Boulton |first=Jim |title=Lines in the Sand, The Lynn Conway Story (Unsung Heroes of the Information Age) |publisher=Unsung Heroes |year=2024 |publication-date=February 21, 2024 |asin=B0CW1LNGFD}}</ref> a short comic book that tells the story of the invention VLSI. The launch event<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw2jAZmnIqU |title=Lynn Conway – If you want to change the future, start living as if you're already there |date=April 26, 2024 |last=The Centre for Computing History |access-date=June 6, 2024 |via=YouTube |archive-date=June 6, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240606130617/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw2jAZmnIqU |url-status=live }}</ref> took place at the [[Centre for Computing History]] on November 23, 2023.