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Kathleen Booth

British computer scientist (1922–2022)

Life
1922 – 2022
Born
July 9, 1922
Died
September 29, 2022
Nationality
United Kingdom

Kathleen Hylda Valerie Booth was a British computer scientist and mathematician who co-wrote the first assembly language and co-designed the assembler and autocode for the first computer systems at Birkbeck College, University of London. She helped design three different machines including the ARC, SEC, and APE(X)C.

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