University of Manchester School of Computer Science

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The School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester is part of the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences of the University of Manchester which teaches and researches Computer Science.

The school has its roots in the Computer Group of the Electrical Engineering Department at the Victoria University of Manchester. The Computer Group was established following Freddie Williams' move to the Electrical Engineering Department in 1946.

At its formation in 1964, the Department of Computer Science was the first such department in the United Kingdom.

The School was formed from the Department when the Victoria University of Manchester and UMIST merged to form the University of Manchester in 2004.

Contents 1 Achievements 2 Notable alumni and staff 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Achievements

The School/Department is notable for the following achievements:

• The world's first stored program digital computer (the Small-Scale Experimental Machine)
• Virtual memory using paging (see Atlas Computer)
• Manchester encoding
• The AMULET microprocessor series (asynchronous implementations of the ARM computer architecture)

[edit] Notable alumni and staff

• Steve Furber, current ICL Professor of Computer Engineering
• Carole Goble, current Professor of Computer Science - Information Management
• Ian Horrocks, current Professor of Computer Science
• Tom Kilburn, first head of the Department of Computer Science
• Alan Rector, current Professor of Medical Informatics
• Alan Turing
• Freddie Williams

[edit] References

• History of the School of Computer Science

[edit] External links

• University of Manchester, School of Computer Science
• The University of Manchester celebrates the Birth of the Modern Computer