Martin Campbell-Kelly

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Martin Campbell-Kelly
Bornc. 1960 (aged c. 64)
Nationality British
Alma mater Sunderland Polytechnic (PhD)
Known for History of computing
Scientific career
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Institutions University of Warwick
Thesis Foundations of computer programming in Britain 1945-1955  (1980)
Doctoral students Mary Croarken

Martin Campbell-Kelly FCBS FLSW (born c. 1960) is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Warwick who has specialised in the history of computing. [1] [2]

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Education

Campell-Kelly was educated at Sunderland Polytechnic where he was awarded a PhD in 1980 on the Foundations of computer programming in Britain 1945–1955. [3]

Research

Campbell-Kelly has authored, edited numerous books and journal articles on the history of computing. [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]

He served on the editorial board of the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing journal. He is a committee member of the Computer Conservation Society, a Specialist Group of the British Computer Society, and is a Gresham College lecturer. [11] [12]

In 2011, Campbell-Kelly was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales. [13]

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References

  1. Martin Campbell-Kelly, Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, UK.
  2. Campbell-Kelly, M. (2014). "Sir Maurice Vincent Wilkes 26 June 1913 – 29 November 2010". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society . 60: 433–454. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2013.0020.
  3. Campbell-Kelly, Martin. (1980). Foundations of computer programming in Britain 1945–1955 (PhD thesis). Sunderland Polytechnic.
  4. Books by Martin Campbell-Kelly, Google Books.
  5. Martin Campbell-Kelly (1989). ICL: A Business and Technical History. Clarendon: Oxford University Press. p. 409. ISBN   0-19-853918-5.
  6. Martin Campbell-Kelly and William Aspray (1996). Computer: A History of the Information Machine , Basic Books/HarperCollins. ISBN   0-465-02989-2.
  7. Martin Campbell-Kelly; Mary Croarken; Raymond Flood; Eleanor Robson, eds. (2003). The History of Mathematical Tables. Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-850841-0.
  8. Martin Campbell-Kelly (December 2005). "The User-friendly Typewriter". The Rutherford Journal . 1.
  9. Martin Campbell-Kelly (September 2009). The Origin of Computing, Scientific American .
  10. Campbell-Kelly, M. (2006). "David John Wheeler. 9 February 1927 -- 13 December 2004: Elected FRS 1981". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society . 52: 437. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2006.0030.
  11. "Professor Martin Campbell-Kelly". Gresham College. Retrieved 30 December 2021.
  12. Martin Campbell-Kelly his obituaries of prominent computer science figures in The Guardian
  13. Wales, The Learned Society of. "Martin Campbell-Kelly". The Learned Society of Wales. Retrieved 29 August 2023.