Kathleen Booth

Kathleen Booth, 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. She helped design three different machines including the ARC (Automatic Relay Calculator), SEC (Simple Electronic Computer), and APE(X)C.
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Kathleen Hylda Valerie Booth (née Britten, 9 July 1922 – 29 September 2022)
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--According to Kathleen, the machine first worked on 12 May 1948, making it the first example of the new type of “stored-program” computer to operate, although it was not electronic, and was built using electromechanical relays rather than vacuum tubes.
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The Birkbeck computer group had also been partially funded by the Rockefeller Foundation for research into the machine translation of natural language. To fulfil this obligation Kathleen wrote a translation program, first demonstrated in 1955, by translating a passage of French into English.
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* Kathleen Booth obituary | Computing | The Guardian
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* coder; machine operator; machine user; designer; engineer; scholar; computerist; 
* assembly; assembly (computer language)
* coding; matching; mixing; combining; programming; programming language;