{"id":823325,"date":"2024-06-18T10:18:34","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T04:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=823325"},"modified":"2024-06-18T10:29:16","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T04:59:16","slug":"lynn-conway-computing-pioneer-and-transgender-advocate-dies-at-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/06\/18\/lynn-conway-computing-pioneer-and-transgender-advocate-dies-at-86\/","title":{"rendered":"Lynn Conway, computing pioneer and transgender advocate, dies at 86"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Her husband, Charles Rogers, said she died in a hospital from complications of two recent heart attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-823325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}