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2026-10-18 11:54 UTC

Happy birthday to trailblazing programmer & computer scientist, Beatrice “Trixie” Worsley (1921-1972). My #linocut shows Worsley seated at the first computer in Canada, the FERUT (which she named) & a flow diagram of one of her programs.⁠ ⁠ Trixie Worsley earned one of the first doctorates in computer science anywhere, & was supervised by Douglas Hartree and Alan Turing at Cambridge. Amongst the first computer scientists in 🧵 https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/595780026 #WomenInSTEM #printmaking #sciart #histsci

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