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than women', Mary Lee added. 'It was grossly unfair and there was a rebellion. The personnel officer was shocked we'd even discussed our wages.' She was on £400 a year. 'The Tin Hut marriage rate was high', her husband said. 'The Robinsons … the Bennetts … the Clarkes … us.' Many of these pioneers had moved on to professorships, or
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techniques of sorting and updating files. In 1956 he devised an application for planning the production of items from a variety of components, for example, animal feed products. In 1957 he published an article on machine loading. A report that he produced in 1964 listed 31 Ferranti projects that used
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In Manchester, nearly half the programmers were women, Conway Berners-Lee, who married one of them, said 'Ferranti hired intelligent girls very cheaply but this gave them a big cultural problem because, prior to that, the company had only employed women as typists or factory hands'. 'Men got more
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covering all types of vehicle and spares. This meant that they had to say goodbye to 30 women who had been punching the cards. The last job was sorting and listing the 250,000 personnel cards to get all the service people onto ships for home. There was a race with the clerks doing this job by
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as a compressed two-year course, because the government needed people trained in mathematics and electronics. In addition, he attended a series of lectures in electronics. After university, he had further training in electronic engineering and soon joined the army in the
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of the new systems. It was known as FAST – standing for Football Analogy for System Throughput. The work done by each 'player' was derived from a system monitor file containing data for device and concurrency counts. He received much encouragement when Hughes and Moe at
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Conway and Mary Lee Berners-Lee, interviewed by Thomas Lean, 2010–2011, An Oral History of British Science, British Library Sound & Moving Image reference C1379/23 Audio and Transcript (at British Library only but brief
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In the late 1960s Berners-Lee led the Medical Development Team of ICT and then ICL. He was involved in some of the earliest developments in the applications of computers in medicine, and his
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Coles, E. C.; Beilin, L. J.; Bulpitt, C. J.; Dollery, C. T.; Johnson, B. F.; Mearns, C.; Munro-Faure, A. D.; Turner, S. C.; et al. (1973), "Computer-based records in the clinic (a)",
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In the 1950s it was not clear how computers could usefully be employed away from the field of mathematics. As well as statistics, Berners-Lee had acquired a knowledge of
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since 1951. He joined Ferranti in 1953 working at Ferranti's London Computer Centre. They were married on 10 July 1954 at St Saviour's Church, Hampstead.
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and top executive jobs. They'd been the culmination of a measured progress from military radar work to academia to commerce, and the heroically named '
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Installation. The model could also be used to predict throughput on a minute to minute basis – peaks being believed to be due to instability in the
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and backing store was a scarce and valuable resource in those days, he had also devised a procedure for compressing text, which in 1963 he sent to
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Dead medium: the Zuse Ziffernrechner; the V1, Z1, Z2, Z3 and Z4 program-controlled electromechanical digital computers; the death of Konrad Zuse
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reading mathematics, Berners-Lee volunteered for the armed services, but was instructed to stay on to take parts I and II of the
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in 1947 with the rank of Major. He then worked on a punched card data processing system for the Plastics Division of
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I am Tim Berners-Lee. I invented the WWW 25 years ago and I am concerned and excited about its future. AMA
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Berners-Lee, C.M. (1976), "Four Years Experience with Performance Methodology for System Planning",
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In 1960 Berners-Lee had evolved a technique for editing text—including hyphenation—for metal
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People associated with the Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester
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Reversibility and Stochastic Networks (Probability & Mathematical Statistics)
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Berners-Lee was son of Major Cecil Burford Berners-Lee (1884–1931), of the
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Proceedings of Computer Performance Evaluation Session, EUROCOMP 1976
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Berners-Lee, C.M. (1979), "Network Models of System Performance",
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citing Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 10 No. 1 1988
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Resurrection: The Bulletin of the Computer Conservation Society
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Resurrection: The Bulletin of the Computer Conservation Society
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network model for ICL's 'New Range' of computers (later the
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The business computing division of Ferranti was merged with
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Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME)
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The Use of Electronic Computers in the Chemical Industry
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Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester
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After the end of hostilities, Berners-Lee was posted to
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English mathematician and computer scientist (1921–2019)
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News Bulletin from the Parish of SS Alban & Stephen
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The following is an extract from Dominic Wilson's book
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in Cairo, known as the Number 1 Statistics Unit of the
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Berners-Lee died on 1 February 2019 at the age of 97.
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Helen Lane Campbell Gray and Cecil Burford Berners-Lee
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installation involving about five million 65-column
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Photograph with colleagues (under Ferranti and ICL)
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Conway Berners-Lee and Mary Lee Berners-Lee in 2013
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Birmingham
Trinity College, Cambridge
NPL
ICI
Ferranti
ICT
ICL
Mary Lee Woods
Tim
Mike
Ferranti Mark 1
Birmingham
Sir Tim Berners-Lee
World Wide Web
Mike Berners-Lee
climate change
Royal Field Artillery
Winnipeg
Manitoba
World War II
Trinity College, Cambridge
mathematical tripos
Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME)
Radar
Egypt
Maurice Kendall's
GHQ
Royal Army Ordnance Corps
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