Born: 1940s (circa), Australia (assumed)
Died: Unknown
Country most active: Australia
Also known as: Kay Sullivan
The following is excerpted from Infinite Women creator Allison Tyra’s book Uncredited: Women’s Overlooked, Misattributed, and Stolen Work.
A technical assistant could be asked to do anything right from the top to the bottom, said Kay Thorne, who held that title when she worked on Australia’s first digital stored-program computer, CSIRAC. “And because we were a very small team, that meant that I literally did do a bit of everything.”