Kathleen Booth was born on July 9, 1922 in Stourbridge, United Kingdom. After graduating high school, she went to the University of London, where she received her bachelors degree in Math. Then in 1950, she earned her PhD in Applied Mathematics. From 1942 to 1962, Booth worked at Birkbeck College. One of her biggest acknowledgements, and what she is famously know for, is creating the assembly language and the design of the assembler for the first ARC computers at Birkbeck college in London. Booth also wrote one of the first books on programming called, "Programming for an Automatic Digital Computer." In, 1950 she and Andrew Booth got married. Booth also taught some of the first courses in computer science in any university. Kathleen Booth, living 100 years, passed away in September 29, 2022.
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Katherine Johnson was born on August 26, 1918, in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. At the age of 13, she started high school, then later at 18 she enrolled at West Virginia State University. In 1932, she received her B.S. degree in French and mathematics. Johnson is famously known for calculating the trajectory for the Friendship 7 orbital flight of John Glenn. She was also one of the women profiled in the book Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly. Johnson even received a Medal of Freedom, awarded by President Barack Obama, in 2015. Within a few months, Katherine took a job teaching and met fellow educator Jimmie Goble, who which she than married, in 1939. A little fun fact is that in 1951 Johnson's house caught fire. After reaching age 101, she passed away in February 24, 2020.
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On September 4, 1927, John McCarthy was born; he passed away on October 23, 2011. He graduated from Princeton University with a PhD in mathematics after earning a BS in the subject from the California Institute of Technology. He established the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in 1965, serving as its first director. He got the National Medal of Science in 1990, the Kyoto Prize in 1988, the ACM Turing Award in 1971, and the Benjamin Franklin Medal in 2003. McCarthy is credited with helping to create the fields of artificial intelligence and timesharing systems, which share computer resources. In 1958 at Stanford University, he created the programming language lisp for symbolic computation. The fact that John McCarthy is credited with creating the term "artificial intelligence" intrigues me.
