Lynn Conway, computing pioneer and transgender advocate, dies at 86

Lynn Conway, a pioneering computer scientist who was fired by IBM in the 1960s after telling managers that she was transgender, despite her significant technological innovations, and who received a rare formal apology from the company 52 years later, died June 9 in Jackson, Michigan. She was 86.

Her husband, Charles Rogers, said she died in a hospital from complications of two recent heart attacks.