Michael Woodger (March 28, 1923 to July 14, 2025) was an English pioneering computer scientist who spent most of his career at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, London. Beginning as an assistant to Alan Turing in 1946, he played an important role in developing the Pilot ACE and full ACE computers, and later contributed to the design and documentation of the ALGOL 60 and Ada programming languages; in 2023, on his 100th birthday, he was named an Honorary Fellow of The National Museum of Computing.
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What did Mike Woodger do on the ACE computer project?
He worked with Turing on the ACE and wrote the mathematical routines that made Pilot ACE practical to use.
Woodger worked closely with Alan Turing on the ACE, the computer Turing designed and the National Physical Laboratory built. He wrote a suite of mathematical routines for Pilot ACE, one of Britain's first digital computers. Those routines let application programmers code for the problem they wanted to solve, which helped them work faster and more efficiently.
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Michael Woodger (28 March 1923 - 14 July 2025) was an English pioneering computer scientist who spent most of his career at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in Teddington, London.
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on 28 March 1923
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March 28, 1923
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He died on 14 July 2025
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July 14, 2025
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British
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Pilot ACE ALGOL 60 Ada (programming language)
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