Catherine Booth, the mother of assembly language, dies at the age of 100

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen Xiao Zhan for the clue delivery! Kathleen Booth, the mother of assembly language and one of the early British computer pioneers, died last month at the age of 100, CTOnews.com reported.

Katherine Booth, the last of Britain's early computer pioneers, wrote the first assembly language at Berbeck College at the University of London and designed an assembler and automatic code for the first computer system, qubit reported. Later, Catherine turned to natural language processing and neural networks.

CTOnews.com learned that the original program was written in machine code (binary: 1ap0) and that the computer had to be rewired to program. In order to make it easier to understand, Catherine converted the above instructions into human-readable symbols and invented contract notation, which makes the whole process easier, which is called assembly language.