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Andrew Booth

Also Known As Andrew Donald Booth
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Andrew Donald Booth, who lived from February 11, 1918 to November 29, 2009, was a British electrical engineer, physicist and computer scientist who was an early developer of magnetic drum memory for computers. He is known for Booth's multiplication algorithm, and in his later career in Canada became president of Lakehead University.

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Birth Year
1918 1
Birth Date
1918-02-11 1
Death Year
2009 1
Death Date
2009-11-29 1
Nationality
British 1
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Source Wikipedia: Assembly language
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Andrew Donald Booth (11 February 1918 – 29 November 2009) was a British electrical engineer, physicist and computer scientist who was an early developer of the magnetic drum memory for computers.
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    Andrew Donald Booth (11 February 1918 - 29 November 2009) was a British electrical engineer, physicist and computer scientist who was an early developer of the magnetic drum memory for computers.
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    February 11, 1918
  • infobox Died field
    (2009-11-29) (aged 91)
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The first assembly code in which a language is used to represent machine code instructions is found in Andrew Donald Booth and Kathleen H.V. Britten's 1947 work, Coding for A.R.C.
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Andrew Booth
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