Beatrice Worsley

Beatrice Worsley
Born(1921-10-18)18 October 1921[a]
Querétaro City, Mexico
Died8 May 1972(1972-05-08) (aged 50)
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Resting placeMount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto, Canada
NationalityCanadian
Alma mater
Known forFirst PhD in computing, first program run on EDSAC
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
ThesisSerial Programming for Real and Idealised Digital Calculating Machines (submitted 1952, awarded 1954)
Doctoral advisor

Beatrice Helen Worsley (18 October 1921[a] – 8 May 1972) was a Canadian computer scientist, the first woman in the country to work in that profession. She received her Ph.D. degree from the University of Cambridge with Maurice Wilkes as adviser, the first Ph.D. granted in what would today be known as computer science. She wrote the first program to run on EDSAC, co-wrote the first compiler for Toronto's Ferranti Mark 1, wrote numerous papers in computer science, and taught computers and engineering at Queen's University and the University of Toronto for over 20 years before her death at the age of 50.[2]

  1. ^ Bowen, Jonathan P. (2019). "The Impact of Alan Turing: Formal Methods and Beyond". In Bowen, Jonathan P.; Liu, Zhiming; Zhang, Zili (eds.). Engineering Trustworthy Software Systems. SETSS 2018 (PDF). Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 11430. Cham: Springer. pp. 202–235. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-17601-3_5. ISBN 978-3-030-17600-6. S2CID 121295850. Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 October 2022.
  2. ^ Campbell 2003.


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