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Kathleen Booth, computer pioneer who made a major breakthrough in programming –...
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Kathleen Booth, computer pioneer who made a major breakthrough in programming – obituary
With her husband she co-designed one of the the first operational computers and wrote an ‘assembly language’ to make programming easier
25 October 2022 • 1:00pm
Kathleen Booth in the 1950s loading a program into the Apexc computer that she co-designed with her husband Andrew
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Kathleen Booth, who has died aged 100, co-designed of one of the world’s first operational computers and wrote two of the earliest books on computer design and programming; she was also credited with the invention of the first “assembly language”, a programming language designed to be readable by users....
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