Sheryl Handler (born 1955) is an American businesswoman recognized as one of the founders of Thinking Machines and the founder and CEO of Ab Initio. She attended Case Western Reserve University for interior design and received a master's degree in landscape architecture from Harvard University. She had taken part in the start-up of the Genetics Institute at Harvard and was pursuing a doctorate in city planning at MIT when she met Danny Hillis, who was working on parallel computing. She helped found the Thinking Machines Corporation, where she served as CEO until 1992, and after it went bankrupt in 1995 she and several former employees founded Ab Initio Software.
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