James Nairn Patterson "Pat" Hume CM FRSC (17 March 1923 – 9 May 2013) was a Canadian professor and science educator who has been called "Canada's pioneer of computer programming".
[11] In collaboration with his colleague Donald Ivey, he helped to steer the teaching of physics in a new direction through the use of educational television programs and movies.
Short films for the PSSC such as Frames of Reference and the CBC TV show The Nature of Things used humour and creative camerawork to make physics accessible to a wider range of students.
[12] In 1958 with Calvin Gotlieb he published High-speed Data Processing,[13] the first book on using computers in business[14] which was "recognized by The Oxford English Dictionary in twelve computer-related entries: block, character, datum, generator, housekeeping, in-line, interpreter, keyboard, logical, loop, matrix and simulate".
[19] He was an active member of The Arts and Letters Club of Toronto and for many years collaborated with Jack Yokom[20] to produce the Annual Spring Review.