Mary Lee Woods is remembered in technology for work that changed what came after it.
The record lists Mary Lee Woods as British mathematician and computer programmer (1924-2017).
Mary Lee Woods was born at Birmingham in 1924. Her recorded nationality is the United Kingdom. She was educated at University of Birmingham and Yardleys School.
The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.
The record gives her occupations as mathematician, computer scientist and programmer.
Her affiliations include Telecommunications Research Establishment, Mount Stromlo Observatory and Ferranti.
Technical work compounds - each layer makes the next one cheaper to attempt.
Working from the United Kingdom shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have her, the language the work first appeared in.
Mary Lee Woods died in 2017 at the age of 93. The work outlived the arguments around it.
Achievements
- Affiliated with Telecommunications Research Establishment, Mount Stromlo Observatory and Ferranti
- Educated at University of Birmingham and Yardleys School
- Worked as mathematician, computer scientist and programmer
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