Hugh McGregor Ross

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Hugh McGregor Ross, 88 years of age when the photo was taken in January 2006, with a copy of the 1987 Draft Proposal for ISO/IEC 10646

Hugh McGregor Ross (born August 31, 1917 in Nairobi, Kenya) is an early pioneer in the history of British computing. He worked for Ferranti from the mid-1960s, and was involved in the standardization of ISO 646 and ISO 6937. He was one of the principle architects of the Universal Character Set when it was first conceived.

Hugh is an expert in the Gospel of Thomas and has written several books about it. He is a Quaker, and has also written a book about George Fox.

[edit] External links

• Hugh McGregor Ross' translation and commentary on the Gospel of Thomas

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