Born: 8 December 1919, Ukraine
Died: 15 August 2001
Country most active: Ukraine
Also known as: Kateryna Lohvynivna Rvacheva, Катерина Логвинівна Ющенко, Екатерина Логвиновна Ющенк
The following bio was written by Emma Rosen, author of On This Day She Made History: 366 Days With Women Who Shaped the World and This Day In Human Ingenuity & Discovery: 366 Days of Scientific Milestones with Women in the Spotlight, and has been republished with permission.
Kateryna Yushchenko (Катерина Логвинівна Ющенко) was born in 1919 in Chyhyryn, Ukrainian People’s Republic. She was a Soviet Ukrainian computer and information research scientist who developed one of the world’s first high-level programming languages with indirect addressing, called the Address programming language (APL), in 1955.
Yushchenko was behind the establishment of the inaugural Soviet School of Theoretical Programming. Spanning the 1970s to the 1980s, this era witnessed the transformation of theoretical programming into a standalone academic discipline, marked by the creation of algebraic grammar techniques for software synthesis.