Kathleen Hylda Valerie Booth 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.
11 Facts About Kathleen Booth
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Kathleen Booth helped design three different machines including the ARC, SEC, and APEC.
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Kathleen Booth obtained a BSc in mathematics from Royal Holloway, University of London in 1944 and went on to get a PhD in Applied Mathematics in 1950 from King's College London.
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Kathleen Booth married her colleague Andrew Donald Booth in 1950 and had two children.
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Kathleen Booth travelled to the United States as Andrew Booth's research assistant in 1947, visiting with John von Neumann at Princeton.
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Kathleen Booth regularly published papers concerning her work on the ARC and APEC systems and co-wrote "Automatic Digital Calculators" which illustrated the 'Planning and Coding' programming style.
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In 1958, Kathleen Booth wrote one of the first books describing how to program APEC computers.
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From 1946 to 1962, Kathleen Booth was a Research Scientist at British Rubber Producers' Research Association and for ten years from 1952 to 1962 she was Research Fellow and Lecturer at Birkbeck College, University of London.
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Kathleen Booth continued her research into automated translation, becoming the director of a Canadian national project on machine translation in 1965.
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In 1962, after leaving Birkbeck College the Kathleen Booth family moved to Canada to where she became a Research Fellow, Lecturer and Associate Professor at the University of Saskatchewan until 1972.
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Kathleen Booth died on 29 September 2022, at the age of 100.