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Pat Ambler
Ann Patricia "Pat" Fothergill (''née'' Waddington, formerly Ambler; 13 February 1936 – 28 January 2017) was a pioneer in robotics and robot control languages in the AI department of the University of Edinburgh. She moved to the University of Aberdeen in 1986 to join the Department of Computing as a senior lecturer, where she remained until her death. Early life and education Pat Fothergill was born in Woodford Wells, Essex, England in 1936 to an English father Leonard and a Welsh mother Sarah (née Kinton). During her early childhood, her family moved to Singapore and then to South Africa to accommodate her father's career as a civil engineer. She attended the Ashcombe School, Dorking County Grammar School, where she was a Prefect and received the Governors' Prize for her academic achievements. She excelled in math and science, studying Pure Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry for her GCE Advanced Level (United Kingdom), A-Level exams. She received distin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woodford Wells
Woodford Wells is a small settlement on the edge of Epping Forest, in Woodford, East London. The area lies about north-east of Charing Cross. The name is shown in the Chapman and Andre 1777 map of Essex, and shortly after on an Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey (OS) is the national mapping agency for Great Britain. The agency's name indicates its original military purpose (see ordnance and surveying), which was to map Scotland in the wake of the Jacobite rising of 1745. There was a ... map of 1805; the name refers refers to mineral water wells. In the 18th century briefly the hamlet was a small spa but by the 1870s the wells had been long neglected and Woodford Wells had become part of a "straggle of hamlets". Among its notable features is the Horse & Well, a 17th-century coaching inn still in operation. Woodford Wells is home to Woodford Wells F.C. Education Bancroft’s School a Secondary school, has been at Woodford Wells since the 1880s. St Aubyn's School ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |