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