Chieko Asakawa is a Japanese computer scientist from Osaka who lost her sight after a childhood swimming accident and became completely blind by age fourteen. After earning a degree in English literature and training in computer programming, she joined IBM in 1984 and later earned a doctorate in engineering from the University of Tokyo in 2004. At IBM Research Tokyo she developed the IBM Home Page Reader, a Netscape browser plug-in released in 1997 that became the most widely used web-to-speech system within five years, and she has continued research on Braille word processors, digital libraries and navigation aids for blind users. She was named an IBM Fellow in 2009 and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2017.
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