Janice Lourie, Date of Birth

Janice Lourie

American computer scientist

Date of Birth: 09-Jul-1930

Profession: computer scientist, artist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Janice Richmond "Jan" Lourie (born July 9, 1930) is a computer scientist and graphic artist.
In the late 1960s she was a pioneer in CAD/CAM (computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacture) 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.