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The first person in the world to earn a PhD in the #ComputerScience, was a Canadian woman.
Beatrice “Trixie” Worsley went to the University of Toronto, before serving Canada in #WWII. She then got a Master’s in #math and #physics from MIT, followed by her PhD at Cambridge in 1952.
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