D’Imperio, cousin of Mary, for sharing the passing of Mary D’Imperio. From 1987 to 2006, she was a frequent contributor to North American Breeding Bird Survey reports.Ī special thanks to Robert G. She is a linguist and cryptanalyst, but thinks of herself mainly as a computer programmer”.īetween 19, D’Imperio created the TEMAC (Text Macro Compiler) language for processing text. According to a 1976 introduction by Vera Filby: “Her career has been with the government since 1951. She was elected a member of Phi Beta Kappa at Radcliffe in 1950. 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’.ĭ’Imperio has degrees in comparative philology and classics from Radcliffe College, where she graduated magna cum laude, and structural linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania. She has written several books and journal articles about the manuscript. She was introduced to the problem of the Voynich Manuscript by John Tiltman in 1975. Mary D’Imperio was an American cryptographer. "An Application of PTAH to the Voynich Manuscript" (PDF). "An Application of Cluster Analysis and Multiple Scaling to the Question of "Hands" and "Languages" in the Voynich Manuscript" (PDF).
Meade, MD: National Security Agency/Central Security Service. These people included code breakers from the United States and Great Britain who had served in both World War I and II, and even the National Security Agency (NSA) attempted to decipher the Voynich Manuscript, which resulted in a document entitled The Voynich Manuscript: An Elegant Enigma published in 1978 which is available to read entirely on. The Voynich Manuscript: An Elegant Enigma (PDF). "The Voynich Manuscript: A Scholarly Mystery". New research on the Voynich manuscript : proceedings of a seminar 30 November 1976 (PDF). "Information structures: Tools in problem solving". "Data Structures and their representation in storage". "TEMAC (Text Macro Compiler): A Machine Language for Processing Text". Washington, D.C.: Foreign Service Institute, Department of State. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania. A phonematic analysis of the Etruscan mummy-wrapping text (A.B., Honors in Comparative Philology). She was a linguist and cryptanalyst, but thought of herself mainly as a computer programmer". 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.Īccording to a 1976 introduction by Vera Filby: "Her career has been with the government since 1951. She wrote several books and journal articles about the manuscript. From 1987 to 2006, she was a frequent contributor to North American Breeding Bird Survey reports. īetween 19, D'Imperio created the TEMAC (Text Macro Compiler) language for processing text. ĭ'Imperio received degrees in comparative philology and classics from Radcliffe College from which she graduated magna cum laude, and structural linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania. Her father was the Philadelphia sculptor, Dominic D'Imperio. Mary D'Imperio was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, January 13, 1930. Mary D'Imperio (Januin Germantown, Pennsylvania – in Springfield, Virginia) was an American cryptographer.