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Kathleen Booth, computer pioneer – obituary (telegraph.co.uk)
1 point by mikro2nd on Oct 29, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



From the Telegraph obituary: '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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