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Kathleen Booth, the inventor of assembly language, Dead at 100

November 24, 2022 No Comments

Obit in the Reg: Professor Kathleen Booth, one of the last of the early British computing pioneers, has died. She was 100. […] As well as building the hardware for the first machines, she wrote all the software for the ARC2 and SEC machines, in the process inventing what she called Contracted Notation. This language, […]

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Margaret Hamilton: Pioneer Software Engineer

July 15, 2019July 22, 2019 No Comments

Enjoyable, if brief, interview with Margaret Hamilton, who lead the software team for the Apollo moonshots. I can’t help but notice how few men are ever asked how their lives as parents ever collides with their work. Q: Did your life as a software engineer and a mother ever collide? A: Often in the evening or […]

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February 14, 2016 No Comments

Via http://facebook.com/aliettedebodard

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The Algorithmic Sea

August 28, 2015August 28, 2015 No Comments

Amazing: http://kottke.org/15/03/the-algorithmic-sea

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