Her husband's thesis:
https://core.ac.uk/display/4692241
"Adaptive lapped transforms with applications to image coding"
Topics: Data compression (Telecommunication), Image processing Digital techniques, Coding theory
Written in 1997.
Because the thesis is locked, I included two slides from OTHER authors, to give you an idea of the kind of universe Lori's widow was in with this image processing and coding: in essence, trying to find the most efficient ways to store pixel data and then read it back, both as quickly and, more importantly, as accurately as possible.
Seems like the kind of stuff you'd want to know if you were to, say, superimpose things into video and have the corresponding result look as convincing as possible (back in 1997 and onward.)
I mean, Lori's obituary revealed that Timothy was a "prominent" member of the USAF.
(https://heavy.com/news/2020/05/lori-klausutis-joe-scarborough/) (Heavy, I know, but whatever.) Maybe, given his knowledge and apparent high rank, was aware that a CGI simulation would be used to sleepwalk people into a surveillance state. Maybe he blew the whistle to his wife, knowing she could pass it onto her congressman boss Joe (mistaken placement of trust) and…
Just speculating out loud here.