"She certainly was a very forward-looking person in library automation, and an innovator," said Hope Tillman, director of libraries for Babson College... Inmagic co-founder Karen Brothers met Eddison at an MIT conference in the 1970s when Eddison was considering automatic typewriters to print catalogue cards. Brothers proposed a computer program to automate the process. Eddison took the idea and ran with it...."She was unstoppable," Brothers said. "She wasn't a technical person herself, but she would get information from others. She was at the forefront of building databases of textual content...Inmagic Chief Executive Phillip Green said Inmagic, which Brothers and Eddison founded without outside investors, now employs 50 workers and lists 5,000 customers.
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