Worsley Beatrice Horoscope

Related Articles

Worsley Beatrice Biography

Mexican-born Canadian computer scientist, nicknamed "Trixie," she is noted as the first female computer scientist in Canada. She received her PhD degree from the University of Cambridge with Alan Turing and Douglas Hartree as advisers, the first PhD 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 Torontos Ferranti Mark 1, wrote numerous papers in computer science, and taught computers and engineering at Queens University and the University of Toronto for over 20 years before her death from a heart attack on 8 May 1972 at the age of 50. In 2014, Worsley was posthumously awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award in Computer Science by the Canadian Association of Computer Science. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less