Reminiscences
Memories bring life to the Collection
The History of Computing Collection seeks recollections in order to uncover and record Information about technologies and their use, the working experiences of people and their achievements as well as the paths that brought people into computing.
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Noel Cox worked in data processing and saw the transition from mechanical to electronic technologies and was responsible for the transition of data processing the decimalisation.
"By 1971 many large organisations had, of course, already introduced computers for accountancy and commercial applications. The introduction of the new decimal currency at a ratio of 100 pence to 240 meant that all internal values had to be divided by 2.4 and any resultant value below a pound rounded to the nearest whole penny".
"The Simple Code programming language was anything but - all calculations had to pass through the Accumulator which had to be preserved for future usage and loops used implied Greek character notation to control the frequency."
In 1961, Colin Evans was awarded a research grant by the DSIR (Department of Scientific and Industrial Research) to carry out work on electrical discharges for a PhD degree, under the supervision of Professor P M Davidson.
J. Roger Hindley is a prominent British logician best known for the Hindley–Milner type inference algorithm. Since 1998, he has been an Honorary Research Fellow at Swansea University
“In 1968, the Computer Science department did not yet offer degree courses, but David Cooper and I began to teach a full-year course of two lectures per week for the final-year Pure Mathematics students: “The Mathematical Theory of Computation”
Jim Proudfoot "arrived in Swansea in May 1974, to work on the SERC-funded MultiMicroprocessor project, so-called CYBA-M."
'Sitsofe completed a BSc in Computer Science at Swansea in 2003 followed by a PhD at York University. He now works for GraphCore.'
