Janice Richmond "Jan" Lourie is an American computer scientist and graphic artist. In the late 1960s she was a pioneer in CAD/CAM for the textile industry. She is best known for inventing a set of software tools that facilitate the textile production stream from artist to manufacturer. For the Graphical Design Of Textiles process she was granted IBM's first software patent. Other projects, in differing disciplines, share the focus on graphic representation. She returns throughout an ongoing career to the stacked two-dimensional tabular arrays of textiles and computer graphics, and the topological structures of interrelated data.
Janice Lourie, American computer scientist and graphic artist
On July 9, in the year 1930, Janice Lourie, American computer scientist and graphic artist. This event is recorded as a Notable Births event in the history of July 9, a notable event in this corner of history.
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- This event took place on July 9, 1930 (AD era).
- It is categorised as a Notable Births event in recorded history.
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