During the games themselves, she was on the volleyball results team. A native of Murrayville, Illinois, Chapman started working as a programmer after graduating and migrated later to project management of software development. She was one of at least 500 IBM personnel at the games. ACOG was able to reuse some of the software developed for the Barcelona games, but in four years, the technology had changed significantly. Competition information, statistics, and results are stored on a mainframe, then sent to the outside, including the kiosk and press agencies.
Accreditation starts when an athlete arrives at the airport or the village and gets a badge.
The badge authorizes him or her to compete in specific events and grants individual access to restricted areas. Results involved much more than keeping track of who won which competition. Info'96 was the name for the electronic kiosk system inside the Olympic village. About 150,000 credited individuals, including athletes, media, and judges, could use this touch screen system for things like sending and viewing e-mail, competition schedules, and competition results. The results were available approximately two minutes after the real thing.