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.
Read more about he life and work here from the Centre for Computing History and in The Guardian here.
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.
Happy Ada Lovelace Day! Today, in honor of Ada Lovelace, the world celebrates all of the accomplishments of women in science, art, design, technology, engineering, and math. Each year, Adafruit highlights a number of women who are pioneering their fields and inspiring women of all ages to make their voices heard. Today we will be sharing the stories of women that we think are modern day “Adas” alongside historical women that have made impacts in science and math.
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