The Computer History Museum inducted Conway as a 2014 Fellow for her development and dissemination of new IC design methods.
On April 26, 2014, the Computer History Museum formally inducted Lynn Conway as a Fellow, one of the highest honors the institution bestows, recognizing her "for her work in developing and disseminating new methods of integrated circuit design."
This induction celebrated Conway's central role in the Mead–Conway VLSI design revolution, which transformed integrated circuit design from a niche, highly specialized skill into an accessible discipline taught in universities worldwide. The honor placed her alongside other towering figures in computing history who have shaped the technologies underlying the modern digital world.
The recognition came fifteen years after Conway had publicly disclosed her gender history in 1999, and it reflected a broader arc of recognition catching up with the historical record—acknowledging both her early IBM-era architectural innovations and her subsequent, more publicly credited VLSI design contributions from Xerox PARC and MIT/Michigan academia.
Her Fellow induction at the Computer History Museum stands as an important milestone not only in celebrating her technical legacy but in the broader effort to ensure that LGBTQ+ scientists and engineers receive full and accurate recognition for their contributions to science and technology, free from the erasure or marginalization that had characterized much of the 20th century.