Lucy Gilbert is an

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and

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. She worked for

Atari, Inc. Atari, Inc. was an American video game developer and home computer company founded in 1972 by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney. Atari was a key player in the formation of the video arcade and video game industry. Based primarily around the Sunny ...

via

General Computer Corporation General Computer Corporation (GCC), later GCC Technologies, was an American hardware and software company formed in 1981 by Doug Macrae, John Tylko, and Kevin Curran. The company began as a video game developer and created the arcade games ''Ms. ...

and developed computer graphics software for Autographix.

Education

Gilbert went to

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and graduated with two degrees. Her master's thesis was about distributed computing using

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Career

Gilbert was hired by

(GCC) right out of college in 1983. There she became interested in computer graphics. She was let go a year later and hired by Autographix, where she went on font rendering, as well as a large-scale presentation system for multiple screens. In 1986, while working for Autographix, Gilbert co-authored the paper ''Limitations of Synchronous Communication with Static Process Structure in Languages for Distributed Computing''. The paper explores the idea of a programming language for distributed programs, using a specific combination of communication principles and process structures. It suggests using either synchronous communication ''or'' a static process structure, but not both, in order to improve concurrency. Gilbert was laid off after having her second child, but returned to work in 2008 with her own web design company.

Personal life

Gilbert has six children, all of them working in or being educated in subjects related to

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References

External links

Lucy Gilbert's story at Atari Women
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