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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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kathleen Booth has received more than 191,986 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Kathleen Booth is the 177th most popular computer scientist, the 5,358th most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 16th most popular British Computer Scientist.

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  • 190k

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  • 38.71

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.20

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Kathleen Booth ranks 177 out of 201Before her are Pat Hanrahan, Leslie Valiant, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, Ian Murdock, Jon Hall, and Geir Ivarsøy. After her are Erich Gamma, Theo de Raadt, Phil Katz, Bassel Khartabil, Douglas Crockford, and Luis von Ahn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Kathleen Booth ranks 389Before her are Mavis Gallant, Edwin Thompson Jaynes, Eugenie Clark, Audrey Meadows, Jean Porter, and Herb McKenley. After her are Herbert Goldstein, Bill Macy, Joan Caulfield, Bert I. Gordon, Gil Merrick, and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis. Among people deceased in 2022, Kathleen Booth ranks 408Before her are Alexei Panshin, Enrique Rodríguez, Janusz Kupcewicz, Jason David Frank, András Törőcsik, and P. J. O'Rourke. After her are Wilson Kiprugut, John Powell, Mike Hagerty, Leslie Jordan, Billy Bingham, and Bobby Rydell.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Kathleen Booth ranks 5,358 out of 7,765Before her are Reggie Pridmore (1886), Prince Louis of Cambridge (2018), Tom Hopper (1985), Robin Montgomerie-Charrington (1915), Dan Wheldon (1978), and Marc Warren (1967). After her are Ernest Townsend (1880), Les Leston (1920), Douglas Booth (1992), Jeff Rawle (1951), Peter Ebdon (1970), and David Rohl (1950).

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United Kingdom

Among computer scientists born in United Kingdom, Kathleen Booth ranks 16Before her are Gary McKinnon (1966), Richard Garriott (1961), Martin Fowler (1963), Paul Graham (1964), Alan Cox (1968), and Andrew Morton (1959). After her are Sophie Wilson (1957) and Demis Hassabis (1976).