<Tr> <Td> 1972 1973 </Td> <Td> André Truong Trong Thi and François Gernelle </Td> <Td> Invention of the Micral N, the earliest commercial, non-kit personal computer based on a microprocessor </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 1926 </Td> <Td> Grete Hermann </Td> <Td> Published foundational paper for computerized algebra titled "The Question of Finitely Many Steps in Polynomial Ideal Theory", and published in Mathematische Annalen . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 1960 1978 </Td> <Td> C.A.R. Hoare </Td> <Td> Developed the formal language communicating sequential processes (CSP) and Quicksort . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 1968 </Td> <Td> Betty Holberton </Td> <Td> Wrote the first mainframe sort merge on the Univac </Td> </Tr>

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