Diana Merry

Diana Merry-Shapiro was a computer programmer for the Learning Research Group of Xerox PARC in the 1970s and 1980s, after having originally been hired as a secretary.^[1] As one of the original developers of the Smalltalk programming language, she wrote the first system for overlapping display windows.^[2] Merry was also one of the co-inventors of the BitBLT ('bit block transfer') routines for Smalltalk,^[3][4] subroutines for performing computer graphics operations quickly which were pivotal in the evolution of user interfaces from text-based computing to graphical user interfaces.

As of 2003, Merry-Shapiro was still using Smalltalk as an employee of Suite LLC, a financial consulting firm.^[5]

References

1. ^ Moggridge, Bill (2006), "The Mouse and the Desktop: Interviews with Doug Engelbart, Stu Card, Tim Mott, and Larry Tesler", Designing Interactions, MIT Press, p. 69, ISBN 9780262134743, http://www.designinginteractions.com/downloads/DesigningInteractions_1.pdf .
2. ^ Kay, Alan (1993), "IV. 1972-76--The first real Smalltalk (-72), its birth, applications, and improvements", The Early History Of Smalltalk, http://www.smalltalk.org/smalltalk/TheEarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk_IV.html .
3. ^ Ingalls, Dan (November 19, 1975), Bit BLT, Xerox Inter-Office Memorandum, http://bitsavers.org/pdf/xerox/alto/BitBLT_Nov1975.pdf .
4. ^ Guibas, L. J.; Stolfi, J. (1982), "A language for bitmap manipulation", ACM Transactions on Graphics 1 (3): 191–214, doi:10.1145/357306.357308 .
5. ^ Babcock, Charles (April 28, 2003), "Smalltalk Gets Developers Talking: Interest in decades-old programming language grows as developers use it for Web applications", InformationWeek, http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/development/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=9400315 .

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