Kathleen Booth was born in Worcestershire, England on July 9th September 1922 and died on September 29th, 2022. While world war 2 was going on, she was attending at Royal Holloway a University in London, where she got her bachelor’s degree in computer science in mathematics, as well as a PhD in Applied Mathematics. Booth created an assembly language as well as helped develop and design some of the first operational computers in the world. The assembly language is any low-level computer programming language that has a strong correspondence between the code instructions and the machines code. This is significant because it makes programming much easier, as well as more efficient, and uses less memory. Being a part of and helping with the creation of some of the first operational computers in the world is significant because it was a large steppingstone towards the advancements in technology and computer science. She also published books on computer science and helped spread more information.
Alan Turing was born June 23rd, 1912; he graduated from King’s College, Cambridge, in 1934 with a degree in mathematics. He obtained his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1938 and he also published a paper on computability and the Entscheidungsproblem in 1936, introduced the concept ofTuring machine, and laid the foundations of theoretical computer science by allowing any computerized algorithm to be run. He then worked at Bletchley Park during WorldWar II, where he helped to break the German Enigma code and devised several techniques for speeding up cryptanalysis, which contributed to the development of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence by providing a formalization of the concepts of algorithm and computation and designed the Automatic Computing Engine (ACE), one of the first designs for a stored-program computer, which anticipated many features of modern computers, such as high-speed memory, parallel processing, and subroutines.
Ada Lovelace was born in London, United Kingdom, on December 10, 1815. Regrettably, she passed away on November 27, 1852, in Marylebone, London, United Kingdom, at the age of 36. At 25 years old, Ada expressed her desire to rejoin the scientific community. In 1841, she was given the task of translating a lecture by Charles Babbage into English. This lecture discussed Babbage's innovative Analytical Engine, an extension of his earlier work on the Difference Engine. Ada Lovelace, an English mathematician and collaborator of Charles Babbage, is credited with creating a program for Babbage's digital computer prototype. She is often recognized as the pioneer of computer programming. Ada Lovelace holds the distinction of being the inaugural computer programmer. Despite the fact that she wrote about the Analytical Engine, a computer that was never constructed, she recognized the concept of using a set of simple instructions, known as a program, to execute complex calculations.