Mary Allen Wilkes
Born: September 25, 1937 A former computer programmer and hardware engineer, most known for her work with the LINC computer. In 1975, she left computer science and became an attorney. She is a graduate of Wellesley College, class of 1959. Wilkes is a well-known computer scientist, famous for being the first person to use a home computer that she built herself. She is also one of the few computer engineers who made her mark in what was a very male-dominated field in the 1950s and 60s. Wilkes was the first person to design and work on a computer privately at home in 1965 and is regarded as the first home computer user. She is remembered for developing the assembler-linker model used in modern programming compilers. |
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