Brian Randell

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Brian Randell (* 1936 ) is a British computer scientist and computer historian. He was a professor at Newcastle University .

Randell studied mathematics at Imperial College London with a degree in 1957. He then worked for the computer company English Electric and from 1964 for IBM before becoming a professor of computer science in Newcastle.

At English Electric he worked on compilers , for example an Algol 60 compiler. At IBM, where he was at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center , he worked on the architecture of high-performance computers and the design methodology of operating systems.

Later he mainly deals with fault tolerance and reliability of software.

He also deals with the history of the computer before 1950. He has published on Percy Ludgate , Leonardo Torres y Quevedo and Alan Turing and the Colossus , among others . He was a founding editor of the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing.

He also deals with genealogy.

Fonts

  • Editor Predictable dependable computer systems , Springer Verlag 1995 (ESPRIT basic research series)
  • with Philip Treleaven (Editor) VLSI Architecture , Prentice Hall 1983
  • with LJ Russell Algol 60 Implementation , Academic Press 1964
  • Published by The Origins of Digital Computers: Selected Papers , Springer-Verlag 1973, 2nd edition 1975, 3rd edition 1982
  • Software engineering in 1968 , in Proc. of the 4th Int. Conf. on Software Engineering, Munich 1979, pp. 1-10
  • Memories of the NATO Software Engineering Conferences , IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Volume 20, 1998, pp. 51-54
  • "The Origins of Computer Programming , IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Volume 16, 1994, pp. 6-14

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Randell Ludgate's Analytical Machine of 1909 , Computer Journal, Volume 14, 1971, pp. 317-326
  2. ↑ Randell From Analytical Engine to Electronic Digital Computer: The Contributions of Ludgate, Torres and Bush , Annals of the History of Computing, Volume 4, 1982, pp. 327-341
  3. ↑ Randell On Alan Turing and the Origins of Digital Computers , in B. Meltzer, Donald Michie Machine Intelligence , Volume 7, 1972, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 3-20
  4. ↑ Randell The Colossus , in N. Metropolis, J. Howlett, Gian-Carlo Rota A History of Computing in the Twentieth Century , Academic Press 1980, pp. 47-92
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SURNAME Randell, Brian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British computer scientist and computer historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1936