Kathleen Booth

Kathleen Booth
Born
Kathleen Hylda Valerie Britten

(1922-07-09)9 July 1922
Died29 September 2022(2022-09-29) (aged 100)
Alma materUniversity of London
Known forInvented the first assembly language for her University's computer
Spouse
(m. 1950; died 2009)
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
InstitutionsBirkbeck 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.

  1. ^ Booth, Kathleen HV, "Machine language for Automatic Relay Computer", Birkbeck College Computation Laboratory, University of London

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