Beatrice Worsley

Beatrice Worsley
Beatrice Worsley
Born	18 October 1921; Querétaro City, Mexico
Died	8 May 1972 (aged 50); Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Resting place	Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto, Canada
Nationality	Canadian
Alma mater	University of Toronto; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; University of Cambridge;
Known for	First PhD in computing, first program run on EDSAC
	Scientific career
Fields	Computer science
Thesis	Serial Programming for Real and Idealised Digital Calculating Machines (submitted 1952, awarded 1954)
Doctoral advisor	Alan Turing; Douglas Hartree;

Beatrice Helen Worsley (18 October 1921 – 8 May 1972) was the first female Canadian computer scientist. 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.

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