While at UCLA between 1978 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989 1989] she developed a computer system in conjunction with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM IBM] later used by the Smithsonian National Zoo [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_and_Research_Center|Smithsonian National Zoo] to teach language to [[orangutan]]s [http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/ThinkTank/ResearchProjects/OLP/default.cfm], and organized and directed the world's first [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/orangutan orangutan] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/language language] study. With the aid of a [[computer]], she taught an ape [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ape] named Bulan sign [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/sign language] and a method she devised for spelling in a phonetic alphabet [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/phonetic alphabet]. [[Directory:Encyclopedia Britannica|Encyclopedia Britannica]] first listed her language program in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988 1988] [http://www.orangutanlanguage.com/cv.html]. | While at UCLA between 1978 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989 1989] she developed a computer system in conjunction with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM IBM] later used by the Smithsonian National Zoo [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_and_Research_Center|Smithsonian National Zoo] to teach language to [[orangutan]]s [http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/ThinkTank/ResearchProjects/OLP/default.cfm], and organized and directed the world's first [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/orangutan orangutan] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/language language] study. With the aid of a [[computer]], she taught an ape [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ape] named Bulan sign [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/sign language] and a method she devised for spelling in a phonetic alphabet [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/phonetic alphabet]. [[Directory:Encyclopedia Britannica|Encyclopedia Britannica]] first listed her language program in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988 1988] [http://www.orangutanlanguage.com/cv.html]. |