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Kathy Humphry, born in Liverpool in 1944, attended the University of St Andrews, and after graduating she worked as a telephone switching technician for Standard Telephones and Cables; she worked on the same machine at Blue Cross/Blue Shield after a move to the USA. She then moved back to the UK to work firstly at the Open University and then the University of Edinburgh. She then moved to Xilinx.

Kathy was involved in using the University of Edinburgh's high-level language, Edinburgh IMP.

When asked by Janet Abbate, who was studying the changing participation of women in computing, about her move into computing from a degree in Psychology and Economics, Kathy mentioned she was surprised that employers used aptitude tests rather than base their decisions on her degree subject.

Kathy is married to Professor Malcolm Atkinson.