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词条 Audrey Bates (programmer)
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  2. Personal life

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Marjorie Audrey Bates (Clayton Wallis) (1928-2014) was a British-American computer programmer who, in 1948, wrote the earliest program for lambda calculus calculations on the Manchester Mark I computer.[1]

Career

Bates graduated with a First in Mathematics from University of Manchester in the summer of 1949.[2] She was taken on as a research student by Alan Turing, and shared an office with him and Cicely Popplewell.[3] In 1950 Bates submitted an MSc thesis entitled "The mechanical solution of a problem in Church's Lambda calculus".[4] This thesis documents a successful attempt to carry out higher-order logical reasoning on the extremely primitive Manchester Mark I electronic computer.[3][2]

When the Manchester Mark I was commercialised by the local electronics firm Ferranti, Bates moved to work with them as a programmer. Whilst at Ferranti she composed several sections (some uncredited) of Vivian Bowdon's Faster Than Thought, a popular introduction to electronic computing.[2][5]

In 1952, Bates went to work on the FERUT, the Ferranti Mark I installed at the University of Toronto.[2] In 1955, Bates was pictured supervising the FERUT when it carried out the first automated remote access to a computer.[6]

In 1979, Bates was working as a 'futurist' at a US military think tank.[7]

Personal life

Bates married twice and had four children.[1] Her first husband, Ken Wills, was a fellow Ferranti programmer[8]; her second husband was Leigh Clayton and it was under the name of Clayton that Bates published her later work.

References

1. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.ancestry.co.uk|title=Birth and death dates for Marjorie Audrey Bates/Wallis|last=|first=|date=|website=ancestry.co.uk|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}
2. ^{{Cite book|url=https://www.manturing.net/manufacturing-blog/2019/2/12/women-at-the-console|title=Alan Turing's Manchester.|last=Swinton|first=Jonathan|publisher=Manchester: Infang Publishing. pp. p119.|year=2019|isbn=978-0-9931789-2-4|location=Manchester|pages=|asin=0993178928}}
3. ^{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/890394618|title=The Alan Turing : the enigma|last=Andrew,|first=Hodges,|isbn=9781784700089|location=London|oclc=890394618}}
4. ^{{Cite thesis|publisher=University of Manchester|last=Bates|first=Audrey|title=The mechanical solution of a problem in Church's Lambda calculus|date=1950}}
5. ^{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/FasterThanThought|title=Faster Than Thought|last=Bowdon|first=|publisher=Pitman|year=1953|isbn=|location=|pages=}}
6. ^{{Cite web|url=https://magazine.utoronto.ca/campus/history/paving-the-way-for-the-information-highway-calvin-gotlieb-j-n-patterson-hume-beatrice-worsley/|title=Paving the Way for the Information Highway|last=Pedwell|first=Susan|date=2013|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}
7. ^{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/DTIC_ADA083756#page/n63/mode/2up|title=|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}
8. ^Lavington, Simon, Stardust: tales from the early days of computing. Talk to the Computer Conservation Society, Manchester, 19 February 2019.
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