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Kathleen Booth | |
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| Born | Kathleen Hylda Valerie Britten 9 July 1922 Stourbridge, Worcestershire, England |
| Died | 29 September 2022 (aged 100) |
| Alma mater | University of London |
| Known for | Invented the first assembly language for her University's computer |
| Spouse | |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions | Birkbeck College |
Kathleen Hylda Valerie Booth (née Britten, 9 July 1922 – 29 September 2022) was a British computer scientist and mathematician who wrote the first assembly language and designed the assembler and autocode for the first computer systems at Birkbeck College, University of London.[1] She helped design three different machines including the ARC (Automatic Relay Calculator), SEC (Simple Electronic Computer), and APE(X)C.
- ^ Booth, Kathleen HV, "Machine language for Automatic Relay Computer", Birkbeck College Computation Laboratory, University of London