In honor of Ada Lovelace Day, today we celebrate the work of British computer scientist Kathleen Booth. After earning her BA in Maths from University of London, Kathleen worked at Birkbeck College and was involved with the team that designed and built the ARC (Automatic Relay Computer), the SEC (Simple Electronic Computer), and more. Her most famous credit is for writing the first assembly language.
Kathleen’s husband, Andrew Booth, often built the machines and Kathleen programmed them. After returning from a visit to the United States in 1947 where Kathleen and Andrew met John von Neumann, she authored a paper detailing changes to the ARC using von Neumann architecture, to create the ARC2. She is credited with writing the first assembly language.
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