Mary D'Imperio

Mary D'Imperio is an American cryptographer. She was introduced to the problem of the Voynich Manuscript by John Tiltman in 1975. She has written several books and journal articles about the manuscript. These include 'The Voynich Manuscript: An Elegant Enigma', 'The Voynich Manuscript: A Scholarly Mystery', and 'An Application of Cluster Analysis and Multiple Scaling to the Question of "Hands" and "Languages" in the Voynich Manuscript'.

D'Imperio has degrees in comparative philology and classics from Radcliffe College, and structural linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania. According to a 1976 introduction by Vera Filby: "Her career has been with the government since 1951. She is a linguist and cryptanalyst, but thinks of herself mainly as a computer programmer".[1]

Between 1960 and 1962, D'Imperio created the TEMAC (Text Macro Compiler) language for processing text.[2] From 1987 to 2006, she was a frequent contributor to North American Breeding Bird Survey reports.[3]

Selected works

  • D'Imperio, Mary E. (1951). A phonematic analysis of the Etruscan mummy-wrapping text (A.B., Honors in Comparative Philology). Radcliffe College.
  • D'Imperio, Mary Evelyn (1955). A survey of decipherment (M.A. in Linguistics). Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania.
  • D'Imperio, Mary E. (1956). Tamil Grammar Notes. Washington, D.C.: Foreign Service Institute, Department of State.
  • D'Imperio, M. E. (1965). "TEMAC (Text Macro Compiler): A Machine Language for Processing Text". NSA Technical Journal. X (3).
  • D'Imperio, M. E. (1969). "Data Structures and their representation in storage". Annual Review in Automatic Programming. 5: 1–75.
  • D'Imperio, M. E. (1969). "Information structures: Tools in problem solving". ACM SIGMOD Record. 1 (2): 25–51.
  • D'Imperio, M. E. (1976). New research on the Voynich manuscript : proceedings of a seminar 30 November 1976 (PDF).
  • D'Imperio, M. E. (1977–1978). "The Voynich Manuscript: A Scholarly Mystery". Manuscripts. OCLC 28211922.
  • D'Imperio, M. E. (1978). The Voynich Manuscript: An Elegant Enigma (PDF). Fort George G. Meade, MD: National Security Agency/Central Security Service. OCLC 50929259.
  • D'Imperio, Mary E. (1978). "An Application of Cluster Analysis and Multiple Scaling to the Question of "Hands" and "Languages" in the Voynich Manuscript" (PDF). NSA Technical Journal. XXIII (3).
  • D'Imperio, M. E. (1978). "The Joys of Unix" (PDF). Cryptolog. 42: 15–18.
  • D'Imperio, Mary E. (1979). "An Application of PTAH to the Voynich Manuscript" (PDF). NSA Technical Journal. XXIV (2).

References

  1. ↑ "New Research on the Voynich Manuscript - Proceedings of a Seminar," 30 November 1976, Washington, DC. Transcribed by M. E. D'Imperio.
  2. ↑ An evaluation of the utility and cost of computerized library catalogs. Final Report.
  3. ↑ Breeding bird census
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