COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Kathleen Booth

1922 - 2022

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Kathleen Hylda Valerie Booth (née Britten, 9 July 1922 – 29 September 2022) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kathleen Booth is the 159th most popular computer scientist (down from 153rd in 2019), the 4,756th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,548th in 2019) and the 14th most popular British Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Kathleen Booth ranks 159 out of 245. Before her are Raj Reddy, Bertrand Meyer, Hal Abelson, Kent Beck, Elizabeth J. Feinler, and Annie Easley. After her are Needleman–Wunsch algorithm, Silvio Micali, Henriette Avram, Liu Gang, Yoshua Bengio, and James H. Clark.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Kathleen Booth ranks 380. Before her are Rosendo Hernández, Regina Resnik, Raffaele La Capria, Marjorie Gestring, José Hierro, and Ekaterina Kalinchuk. After her are Jeanne Sauvé, Haskell Wexler, José Juncosa, Miloslava Misáková, Roberto Lovera, and Ali Akbar Khan. Among people deceased in 2022, Kathleen Booth ranks 514. Before her are Evert Gunnarsson, Bernhard Germeshausen, Julee Cruise, Richard Baawobr, Roberto Maroni, and Isaac Berger. After her are Georgi Yartsev, Galina Shamrai, Alfredo Torres, Amos Sawyer, Ernest Shonekan, and Henry Plumb, Baron Plumb.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Kathleen Booth ranks 4,757 out of 8,785. Before her are Jimmy Dickinson (1925), Simon Baron-Cohen (1958), Grahame Clark (1907), Paul McGuigan (1963), Simon West (1961), and David Prain (1857). After her are Allan Jay (1931), Martin Kelly (1990), Alfred Domett (1811), Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading (1860), Oliver Bearman (2005), and Jordan Henderson (1990).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United Kingdom

Among computer scientists born in United Kingdom, Kathleen Booth ranks 14. Before her are Martin Fowler (1963), Robin Milner (1934), Alan Cox (1968), Stephen Wolfram (1959), Karen Spärck Jones (1935), and Demis Hassabis (1976). After her are David Marr (1945), Richard Garriott (1961), Gary McKinnon (1966), Andrew Morton (1959), Sophie Wilson (1957), and Stuart J. Russell (1962).

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