Lorinda Cherry
[6][7] Cherry started as a Technical Assistant (TA) at Bell Labs in 1966, initially working in Acoustics and Speech Research on vocal tract simulation.[11][12] Her time spent writing FORTRAN programs for others' projects convinced Cherry that her own interests lay in pursuing systems work.[6] This change necessitated her relocating to Bell's Whippany, New Jersey, facility, as well as spending time at the test site located on the Kwajalein Atoll, where her husband had earlier been posted.[13] Prior to her departure to Whippany, she confirmed with Samuel Pope Morgan Jr., then director of computing science research at Bell, that she would be able to return to her previous position.[8] In 1971 Cherry joined the Computing Science Research Center, where her work focused on graphics, word processing, and language design.[8] After McIlroy had written speak program for the Votrax speech synthesizer, work to add intonation was taken on by another researcher, possibly Brenda Baker.[16][20] Another part of the same research used trigram compression and the Brown Corpus created by Kučera and Francis to analyze specific vocabulary for use in Bell System Practice.[26][6] 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.[27][28] Cherry also created a pocket command reference called the "Purple Card" to accompany the sixth and seventh editions of the Unix Programmers Manual.[16] Cherry was involved in development of Bell Labs's Writer's Workbench (wwb) writing toolsuite, to the extent that she considered herself the project's "grandmother".[34] One of the last projects Cherry did was an analysis of transcriptions of calls to AT&T Trouble Centers, searching these inconsistently formatted texts for evidence of systemic problems.