Through this period, the University of Toronto had been setting plans to open a computing department, both as a research facility at the university and as a service bureau, renting time on the machines to commercial and government users.
One of her first jobs at the Centre was a contract with Atomic Energy of Canada (AECL) to provide computational support, along with staff advisor Kelly Gotlieb and J. Perham Stanley, another assistant hired at the same time as Worsley.