Honorary Doctorate, Illinois Institute of Technology, 2014 Steinmetz Memorial Lecture, (Invitational), IEEE/Union College, 2015. IEEE/RSE James Clerk Maxwell Medal, 2015 Magill Lecture in Science, Technology and the Arts (Invited), Columbia University, 2016 Honorary Doctorate, University of Victoria, 2016 Fellow Award, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2016 Honorary Doctorate and Commencement Address, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2018 Pioneer in Tech Award, National Center for Women in Technology (NCWIT), 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award, IBM Corporation, 2020 Selected for Induction into the National Inventors Hall of Fame (NIHF), 2023 IBM's apology In 2020, 52 years after IBM fired her for being transgender, IBM officially and publicly apologized to Conway; IBM held a public event "Tech Trailblazer and Transgender Pioneer Lynn Conway in conversation with Diane Gherson" (IBM's senior VP of HR); IBM's Director of Research Dario Gil said "Lynn was recently awarded the rare IBM Lifetime Achievement Award, given to individuals who have changed the world through technology inventions. Lynn's extraordinary technical achievements helped define the modern computing industry. She paved the way for how we design and make computing chips today – and forever changed microelectronics, devices, and people's lives." Selected works Patents References Further reading External links 1938 births Living people 20th-century American inventors American computer scientists American women academics American women computer scientists Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni Computer hardware engineers IBM employees LGBT mathematicians LGBT people from Michigan American LGBT scientists Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni People from Ann Arbor, Michigan People from White Plains, New York Scientists at PARC (company) Scientists from New York (state) Transgender academics Transgender rights activists Transgender scientists Transgender women University of Michigan faculty Women inventors