Lorinda Cherry was an American computer scientist and programmer.
19 Facts About Lorinda Cherry
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Lorinda Cherry started as a Technical Assistant at Bell Labs in 1966, initially working in Acoustics and Speech Research on vocal tract simulation.
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Lorinda Cherry received her Masters in computer science from Stevens Institute of Technology in 1969.
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At Bell Labs, Cherry was involved in projects with Ken Knowlton and James L Flanagan related to computer graphics that resulted in the computer animation language BEFLIX, and the Atoms program for creating images of three-dimensional stick-and-ball molecular models.
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Lorinda Cherry worked with Manfred Schroeder to produce computer graphics for a show at the Brooklyn Museum.
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Lorinda Cherry's time spent writing FORTRAN programs for others' projects convinced Cherry that her own interests lay in pursuing systems work.
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In 1971 Lorinda Cherry joined the Computing Science Research Center, where her work focused on graphics, word processing, and language design.
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Lorinda Cherry was introduced to the system by Douglas McIlroy.
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Lorinda Cherry participated in several projects that involved the statistical analysis of text.
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Lorinda Cherry was promoted to a Member of the Technical Staff in 1976, giving her more freedom to pursue her own projects.
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Lorinda Cherry made several contributions to the development of electronic typesetting, many related to.
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Lorinda Cherry personally authored, which strips all commands from the input.
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Lorinda Cherry programmed a video display so that typeset documents could be previewed on a screen rather than having to create a photographic print.
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Lorinda Cherry developed a method to identify the topic being discussed in a selected passage of text, which she used to create the first index for the Unix Manual.
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Lorinda Cherry created a pocket command reference called the "Purple Card" to accompany the sixth and seventh editions of the Unix Programmers Manual.
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Lorinda Cherry was involved in development of Bell Labs's Writer's Workbench writing toolsuite, to the extent that she considered herself the project's "grandmother".
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Macdonald contacted Lorinda Cherry to ask permission to use for Writer's Workbench.
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Lorinda Cherry, who lived in the Gillette, New Jersey, section of Long Hill Township, New Jersey, joined the Northern New Jersey Region chapter of the Sports Car Club of America in July 1967.
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Lorinda Cherry raced cars, served as marshal, and handled administrative duties.