An e-mail correspondence with Dr. John Jones answered my question. The following is his reply:

"The first female faculty member in ENSC was Dr. Diane Ingraham, who was hired in 1985, in the first few years of the School's existence. Diane was a founding member of the 'Automation' option, which has since become 'Systems'. She developed the earliest versions of what is now ENSC 370: initially as a course called EGGLARS, in which students had to develop methods to allow an uncooked egg to survive various traumatic adventures, such as being dropped from the top of the AQ. In subsequent offerings of this course, she and the students decided they'd rather focus on something more useful to humans, and they worked for several years on developing MIDI-based systems that would allow paraplegics and quadraplegics to play musical instruments. Diane also had research interests in, among other things, neural nets. The process of neural net learning was then, and remains, poorly understood; there are various techniques for training nets, but no systematic way of finding the fastest training scheme. Diane experimented with expressing the strengths of inter-neural connections as musical notes. I remember her playing a tape of a neural net being trained to implement an XOR circuit; there was a definite progression to the sounds, hinting at some underlying structure to the process. Subsequently I collaborated with her in representing the same process as bit-mapped pictures; these too had a definite structure, suggesting hidden patterns."

"Diane left the School in 1990, after a prolonged period of illness."