Martin Campbell-Kelly

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Martin Campbell-Kelly
Bornc. 1960 (aged c. 64)
Alma mater Sunderland Polytechnic (PhD)
Known for History of computing
Scientific career
Fields
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]

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. Oxford University Press. 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.
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