Jill Hoare Explained

Jill Hoare
Birth Name:Jill Pym
Birth Date:15 October 1933
Spouse:Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare
Children:3
Occupation:Computer Scientist
Parents:John Pym
Diana Gough

Jill, Lady Hoare (born 15 October 1933) is a British computer scientist and one of the primary developers on the initial compiler for the ALGOL 60 language, developed for Elliott Brothers in 1963.[1]

Early life and family

Hoare was born Jill Pym on 15 October 1933. She is the daughter of Lieutenant Colonel John Pym and Diana Gough.[2] She married Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare on 13 January 1962. The couple had three children.[3]

Career

Pym was one of the primary developers on the initial compiler for the ALGOL 60 language, developed for Elliott Brothers in 1963. She worked at Stanford University in 1973. After working on ALGOL, Hoare worked on hospital computer systems for the British National Health Service (NHS) Oxfordshire.[4] [5]

She was interviewed on her career and experiences of coding and programming, work at Stanford University in 1973 and working on hospital systems for NHS Oxfordshire by the Oxford Women in Computing Oral History programme in 2020.

Notes and References

  1. Book: Hoare . C. A. R. . Jones . C. B. . Essays in computing science . 1989 . Prentice Hall . New York . 9780132840279 . 5 . 17 January 2023.
  2. Book: Mosley . Charles . Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage . 2003 . Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd . Wilmington, Delaware . 9780971196629 . 3232 . 107.
  3. Book: Perruso, Alison . Who's Who in the World 2013 . Marquis Who's Who . Internet Archive . 17 December 2012 . 9780837911502 . 17 January 2023.
  4. Book: Lavington, Simon. Moving Targets: Elliott-Automation and the Dawn of the Computer Age in Britain, 1947 – 67 . Springer . Internet Archive . 14 January 2022 . 17 January 2023.
  5. Web site: Interview with Jill Hoare, former programmer for Elliott Brothers and the NHS . University of Oxford Podcasts . 6 October 2018 . 17 January 2023.