Prior to joining the Mercyhurst faculty in 2011, Dausey was a professor at Carnegie Mellon University and the Senior Director of Health Programs and Initiatives at the H. John Heinz III College. Dausey maintains an honorary faculty position at Carnegie Mellon as a Distinguished Service Professor.
Sumerian language. Sumerian language, language isolate and the oldest written language in existence. First attested about 3100 bc in southern Mesopotamia, it flourished during the 3rd millennium bc. About 2000 bc, Sumerian was replaced as a spoken language by Semitic Akkadian (Assyro-Babylonian) but continued in written usage almost to the end of the life of the Akkadian language, around the beginning of the Christian era.
Source for above three paragraphs: The First Successful High Level Programming Language by Mary Bellis http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa072198.htm The first computer language that was actually used on an electric computing device actually appeared in 1949: http://www.byte.com/art/9509/sec7/art19.htm In your question, the implication is that there was a specific language created in 1952 that was called assembly.