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 🧵
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@annehargreaves@ioc.exchange 2026-10-18 14:42
@minouette@spore.social Great thread! TIL!