Andrew Donald Booth was born on February 11, 1918, in East Molesy, Surrey, UK.[4] He was the son of Sidney Booth (died 1955) and a cousin of Sir Felix Booth.
After World War II, he worked on crystallographic problems research at Birkbeck College and constructed a fourier synthesis device. He was then introduced to the work of Alan Turing and John von Neumann on logical automata by Douglas Hartree.[4]
Booth married mathematician and computer engineer Kathleen Britten in 1950, and had two children, Amanda and Ian;[10] between 1947 and 1953, together they produced three computing machines.
Booth, A.D. and Britten, K.H.V. (1948) The accuracy of atomic co-ordinates derived from Fourier series in X-ray crystallography Part V, Proc. Roy. Soc. Vol A 193 pp305–310
The Electronic Principles of Digital Computers, Electronics Forum (1948);
Booth, A.D (1949) A Magnetic Digital Storage System, Electronic Engineering
Booth, A.D. (1950) The Physical Realization of An Electronic Digital Computer, Electronic Engineering
Booth, A.D. (1952) On Optimum Relations Between Circuit Elements and Logical Symbols in the Design of Electronic Calculators, Journal of British Institution of Radio Engineers
Booth, A.D. and Booth K.H.V. (1953) Automatic Digital Calculators, Butterworth-Heinmann (Academic Press) London
References
^ abInternational Biographical Dictionary of Computer Pioneers. John A.N. Lee. November 1995. p. 115. ISBN1-884964-47-8. Born February 11 1918, East Molesy, Surrey, UK; early computer developer at the University of London who worked with John von Neumann; with Warren Weaver in 1946, first conceived of machine translations, and manufactured magnetic drum memories for many early computers.
^"Archived copy". Archived from the original on 6 May 2011. Retrieved 2 January 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Computer Science at Birkbeck College
^"Pioneer of the hard drive". Susan Lazaruk. 3 January 2010. Retrieved 28 March 2021 – via PressReader. Booth and his wife raised two children, Amanda, a veterinarian, and Ian, a physicist.