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 189,309 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Kathleen Booth is the 152nd most popular computer scientist (up from 177th in 2019), the 4,547th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 5,346th in 2019) and the 13th most popular British Computer Scientist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 190k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 44.91

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.01

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.27

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Kathleen Booths by language

Over the past year Kathleen Booth has had the most page views in the with 32,351 views, followed by Russian (2,339), and German (2,184). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Catalan (678.33%), Basque (129.79%), and Egyptian Arabic (41.01%)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Kathleen Booth ranks 152 out of 245. Before her are Kent Beck, Paul Graham, Rudolf Bayer, Vitalik Buterin, E. Allen Emerson, and David Marr. After her are Randy Pausch, Raj Reddy, Martin Fowler, James H. Clark, Bertrand Meyer, and Tim Paterson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Kathleen Booth ranks 373. Before her are Rauf Hajiyev, Fritz Riess, José Hierro, Les Baxter, Regina Resnik, and Raffaele La Capria. After her are Rosendo Hernández, Antoine Blondin, Miron Białoszewski, Börje Tapper, Cécile DeWitt-Morette, and Turhan Bey. Among people deceased in 2022, Kathleen Booth ranks 484. Before her are Gianni Celati, John Powell, Roberto Maroni, Raffaele La Capria, Keto Losaberidze, and Douglas Trumbull. After her are Kiril Dojčinovski, Viacheslav Semenov, Fabián O'Neill, Wolfgang Fahrian, Jürgen Nöldner, and Naomi Judd.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Kathleen Booth ranks 4,547 out of 8,785. Before her are Robert Edmond Grant (1793), Simon Blackburn (1944), William Shanks (1812), David Marr (1945), Richard K. Morgan (1965), and James Whitbread Lee Glaisher (1848). After her are Dennis Poore (1916), Dave Edmunds (1944), James Herbert (1943), Susan Hampshire (1937), Harry Blackstaffe (1868), and John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton (1896).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United Kingdom

Among computer scientists born in United Kingdom, Kathleen Booth ranks 13. Before her are Robin Milner (1934), Karen Spärck Jones (1935), Stephen Wolfram (1959), Richard Garriott (1961), Paul Graham (1964), and David Marr (1945). After her are Martin Fowler (1963), Gary McKinnon (1966), Andrew Morton (1959), Alan Cox (1968), Sophie Wilson (1957), and Stuart J. Russell (1962).

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