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Section: Reception. A January 1985 review in InfoWorld declared it "a fair performer, better than the 8088-equipped IBM PC and PC XT and about equal to the 8086-based Compaq Deskpro", and taking pricing into account concluded that it was "a good deal, but by no means perfect." The reviewer wondered how the "5 MHz" 8086... | Wikipedia - Olivetti M24 - Reception | 345 | 1,427 | null |
A November 1985 review in PC Magazine of the hard drive-equipped version found it on par with the (6 MHz, 80286 equipped) IBM PC AT as far as processor performance was concerned, but with considerably slower I/O. The initial model of the AT&T 6300 (no hard disk and only 360K floppy) had slow sales in 1984 with only 285... | Wikipedia - Olivetti M24 - Reception | 321 | 1,374 | null |
Section: Successors in Olivetti's product line. In response to IBM's launch of their PS/2 line, Olivetti revamped their product line in July 1987 to include 3.5" floppy drives (in 5.25-to-3.5" converted bays though) and also introduced new 80386-based products. The M24 (and M24 SP) were succeeded by the M240 (8086 at 1... | Wikipedia - Olivetti M24 - Successors in Olivetti's product line | 153 | 538 | null |
Article: SMT Goupil. SMT Goupil (SMT - "Society of Microcomputing and Telecommunications") was a French IT company created in 1979 by Claude Perdrillat, previously a senior executive in the General Directorate of Telecommunications. The company produced many microcomputers during the 1980s, mainly for French government... | Wikipedia - SMT Goupil - Summary | 194 | 948 | null |
Section: Models. The first Goupil G1 and G2 computers offered a promising architecture, with the integration of the Motorola 6808 processor coupled with the FLEX operating system. The machines had a sober and integrated design with particular colors - slate blue and red. The G3 extended compatibility in order to conque... | Wikipedia - SMT Goupil - Models | 194 | 899 | null |
Further machines would seek IBM PC compatibility, as it became a standard regarding government equipment. 1979: Goupil G1, basic desktop computer 1981: Goupil G2, desktop computer with multiple configurations similar to those of Micral 1983: Goupil G3, Nanoréseau network machine, similar to Micral 1985: Goupil G4, PC-c... | Wikipedia - SMT Goupil - Models | 257 | 994 | null |
Article: Thomson computers. In the 1980s the French Thomson company produced a range of 8-bit computers based on the 6809E CPU. They were released in several variations (mostly concerning the keyboard or color of the casing) covering the MO and TO series from late 1982 to 1989. While MO and TO models are incompatible i... | Wikipedia - Thomson computers - Summary | 254 | 1,146 | null |
Section: First generation. Thomson TO7: produced from 1982 to 1984. Supplied with 24K RAM (16K used by the video) and upgradable to 48K. 8 color display. Thomson MO5: released in 1984 in order to honor the Computing for All (Informatique pour Tous) plan. Supplied with 48K RAM (32K available to user in BASIC 1.0) and fi... | Wikipedia - Thomson computers - First generation | 186 | 761 | null |
Section: Second generation. Thomson TO9 : released in late 1985. Separate keyboard and central unit, 128K RAM and a 3½-inch floppy disk drive. Thomson MO5NR: released in 1985–1986. This is a MO6 in a MO5E casing, with an integrated network interface controller, the nanoréseau (nano network), which was used in French sc... | Wikipedia - Thomson computers - Second generation | 236 | 913 | null |
Section: Unix systems. The Micromega was fundamental on the adoption of Unix by the French government, due to the localization of the Unix operating system. According to Dominique Maisonneuve, a Unix developer at CERG (Paris): "It was thanks to the Micromega that the government became interested in installing Unix. Wha... | Wikipedia - Thomson computers - Unix systems | 347 | 1,505 | null |
Article: Thomson MO5. The Thomson MO5 is a home computer introduced in France in June 1984 to compete against systems such as the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64. It had a release price of 2390 FF. At the same time, Thomson also released the up-market Thomson TO7/70 machine. The MO5 was not sold in vast quantities outside... | Wikipedia - Thomson MO5 - Summary | 167 | 746 | null |
Section: Specifications. The Thomson MO5 runs on a Motorola 6809E processor clocked at 1 MHz and features 48 KB of RAM (16 KB used as video memory, 32 KB as free user RAM) and 16 KB of ROM (4 KB for the monitor and 12 KB for the BASIC interpreter). Graphics were generated by a EFGJ03L (or MA4Q-1200) gate array capable ... | Wikipedia - Thomson MO5 - Specifications | 330 | 1,308 | null |
11-19), the hardware palette was: Displayed colors are only approximate due to different transfer and color spaces used on web pages (sRGB) and analog video (BT.601) Video RAM was 16 KB. As common on home computers designed to be connected to an ordinary TV screen, the 320 × 200 pixels active area doesn't cover the ent... | Wikipedia - Thomson MO5 - Specifications | 180 | 802 | null |
Section: Variants > Thomson MO5NR. The Thomson MO5NR ("NR" for "Nanoréseau", a network standard - see Computing for All) was introduced in 1986 and added a 58 key AZERTY keyboard and an integrated "Nanoréseau" network controller. Memory was expanded to 128 KB and the machine came with a new version of BASIC (Microsoft ... | Wikipedia - Thomson MO5 - Variants > Thomson MO5NR | 203 | 856 | null |
Article: Thomson TO7. The Thomson TO7, also called Thomson 9000 is a home computer introduced by Thomson SA in November 1982, with an original retail price of 3750 FF. By 1983 over 40000 units were produced. About 84 games were released for the TO7. The TO7 is built around a 1 MHz Motorola 6809 processor. ROM cartridge... | Wikipedia - Thomson TO7 - Summary | 202 | 900 | null |
Section: Specifications. The Thomson TO7 runs on a Motorola 6809 processor clocked at 1 MHz and features 22 KB of RAM (8 KB for the user, 8 KB used as video memory and 8K x 6 bits color memory) and 20KB of ROM (4KB for the monitor and 16KB on MEMO7 cartridges). As common on home computers designed to be connected to an... | Wikipedia - Thomson TO7 - Specifications | 214 | 935 | null |
Section: Thomson TO7/70. An upgraded version, the Thomson TO7/70, was released in 1984 with an introductory price of 3590 FF. It was used as an educational tool in French schools under the Computing for All plan, where the TO7/70 could be used as a used a "nano-machine" terminal for the "Nanoréseau" educational network... | Wikipedia - Thomson TO7 - Thomson TO7/70 | 266 | 1,060 | null |
Article: University of Göttingen. The University of Göttingen, officially the Georg August University of Göttingen (German: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, commonly referred to as Georgia Augusta), is a public research university in the city of Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany. Founded in 1734 by George II, King of... | Wikipedia - University of Göttingen - Summary | 232 | 1,254 | null |
Section: History > 18th–19th centuries. Throughout the 18th century, the University of Göttingen was renowned among German universities for its commitment to the free spirit and scientific exploration. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, a prominent scholar, held one of the first professorships dedicated to experimental physi... | Wikipedia - University of Göttingen - History > 18th–19th centuries | 325 | 1,624 | null |
Otto von Bismarck, the main creator and the first Chancellor of the second German Empire, also studied law in Göttingen in 1833: he lived in a tiny house on the "Wall", now known as "Bismarck Cottage". According to oral tradition, he lived there because his rowdiness had caused him to be banned from living within the c... | Wikipedia - University of Göttingen - History > 18th–19th centuries | 331 | 1,618 | null |
An Enlightenment institution, it produced the Göttingen school of history. Later, Max Weber, one of the most important theorists of the development of modern Western society, also studied history in Göttingen. The Brothers Grimm, the best-known storytellers of folktales like "Cinderella", "The Frog Prince", "Little Red... | Wikipedia - University of Göttingen - History > 18th–19th centuries | 248 | 1,143 | null |
Section: History > Turn of the 20th century. At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, the University of Göttingen achieved its academic peak. Göttingen maintained a strong focus on natural science, especially mathematics. The tradition began with Carl Friedrich Gauss, who was known as "the Prince of Ma... | Wikipedia - University of Göttingen - History > Turn of the 20th century | 337 | 1,702 | null |
It was one of the main centers of the development of modern physics. Oppenheimer, the American scientist and "father of the atomic bomb", was one of Max Born's most famous students and received his doctorate here. During this time, the German language became an international academic language. A number of dissertations... | Wikipedia - University of Göttingen - History > Turn of the 20th century | 223 | 1,165 | null |
Section: History > "Great purge" of 1933. In the 1930s, the university became a focal point for the Nazi crackdown on "Jewish physics", as represented by the work of Albert Einstein. In what was later called the "great purge" of 1933, academics including Max Born, Victor Goldschmidt, James Franck, Eugene Wigner, Leó Sz... | Wikipedia - University of Göttingen - History > "Great purge" of 1933 | 183 | 823 | null |
Section: Campus. The university is spread out in several locations around the city. The central university complex with the Central Library and Mensa (student refectory/dining hall) is located right next to the inner city and comprises the faculties for Theology, Social sciences, Law, Economics/Business Administration ... | Wikipedia - University of Göttingen - Campus | 212 | 1,120 | null |
Section: Academics > Rankings. In the QS World University Rankings 2024, it was placed the 232nd internationally and the 13th nationally. The Times Higher Education World University Rankings for 2024 ranked it as 111th globally and 10th at the national level. According to the 2023 ARWU World Rankings, the university ho... | Wikipedia - University of Göttingen - Academics > Rankings | 252 | 1,263 | null |
Section: Academics > Historical reputation and impact. The University of Göttingen is a traditional institution with a significant historical standing. This is substantiated by a scientific study on the historical development of world university rankings starting in 2013, which examined a web dataset from 24 Wikipedia ... | Wikipedia - University of Göttingen - Academics > Historical reputation and impact | 328 | 1,686 | null |
Stefan Hell has been a lecturer (in Privatdozent capacity) at the University of Göttingen since 2004 and the director of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in the Göttingen Campus since 2002. Thomas Südhof, currently a professor at Stanford University, worked on his doctoral thesis at the Max Planck Ins... | Wikipedia - University of Göttingen - Academics > Historical reputation and impact | 334 | 1,594 | null |
Section: Academics > Partner institutions. Within the Göttingen Campus the university is organizationally and personally interlinked with the following independent and semi-independent institutions: Bernstein Network Computational Neuroscience European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen (ENI-G) Fraunhofer Institute for T... | Wikipedia - University of Göttingen - Academics > Partner institutions | 200 | 1,131 | null |
Section: Student life. There is an old saying about life in Göttingen, still inscribed in Latin nowadays on the wall of the entrance to the Ratskeller (the restaurant located in the basement of the old town hall): Latin: Extra Gottingam non est vita, si est vita, non est ita (There is no life outside Göttingen. Even if... | Wikipedia - University of Göttingen - Student life | 232 | 1,039 | null |
Section: Notable people. Apart from those celebrities mentioned above, notable people that have studied or taught at Georg-August University include the American banker J. P. Morgan, the seismologist Beno Gutenberg, the endocrinologist Hakaru Hashimoto, who studied there before World War I, and several notable Nobel la... | Wikipedia - University of Göttingen - Notable people | 172 | 849 | null |
Section: Purchasing Frameworks. Becta awarded certain vendors placement on approved "purchasing frameworks": The frameworks are awarded in accordance with EU procurement legislation... against a range of criteria based around quality of provision and service, and against the extent to which they meet the requirements o... | Wikipedia - Becta - Purchasing Frameworks | 290 | 1,596 | null |
Article: Alice Bentinck. Alice Yvonne Bentinck (born 23 July 1986) is a British entrepreneur. Along with Matt Clifford she is the co-founder of Entrepreneurs First (EF), a London-based company builder and startup accelerator founded in 2011. EF finds exceptional talent from around the world, and funds them to build exc... | Wikipedia - Alice Bentinck - Summary | 171 | 819 | null |
Section: Career. Prior to founding EF, Bentinck interned in the office of Tony Blair in London, where she also assisted the Africa Governance Initiative. From 2009 to 2011 she was a management consultant in the London office of McKinsey & Company. Bentinck and Clifford met in 2009 while working at McKinsey. After notic... | Wikipedia - Alice Bentinck - Career | 326 | 1,607 | null |
Section: Other activities. In 2014 Bentinck was appointed one of the Prime Minister's advisors for the Northern Future Forum in Helsinki. She has been a member of the advisory board of Founders4Schools since April 2014, and a member of the Computer Science Department Industrial Liaison Board at Imperial College London ... | Wikipedia - Alice Bentinck - Other activities | 302 | 1,514 | null |
Section: Honours and awards. In 2015 Alice was named one of the Fifty Most Inspiring Women in European Tech by the Inspiring Fifty organisation. In 2013 she was ranked No. 19 on The Drum's "30 Under 30 Women in Digital" list. She was a Top 25 finalist in the Tech City Movers and Shakers 2013 and the Girls in Tech Ones ... | Wikipedia - Alice Bentinck - Honours and awards | 244 | 1,135 | null |
Section: Selected articles. "Taking the Plunge". The Huffington Post. 22 September 2015. "Stop Doing Pointless Networking". Real Business. 16 September 2015. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 30 September 2015. Bentinck, Alice (21 July 2015). "How Can the UK Build More Deep Tech Startups?". Tech Wor... | Wikipedia - Alice Bentinck - Selected articles | 150 | 613 | null |
Section: History. The show was first held in January 1985 as the "Hi Technology and Computers in Education Exhibition" at the Barbican Centre, central London, in association with the British Educational Suppliers Association. As the use of technology in education increased, so did the show, and had outgrown the Barbica... | Wikipedia - BETT - History | 298 | 1,528 | null |
Article: BMVA Summer School. BMVA Summer School is an annual summer school on computer vision, organised by the British Machine Vision Association and Society for Pattern Recognition (BMVA). The course is residential, usually held over five days, and consists of lectures and practicals in topics in image processing, co... | Wikipedia - BMVA Summer School - Summary | 314 | 1,690 | null |
Article: British Informatics Olympiad. The British Informatics Olympiad (BIO) is an annual computer-programming competition for secondary and sixth-form students. Any student under 19 who is in full-time pre-university education and resident in mainland Britain is eligible to compete. The competition is composed of two... | Wikipedia - British Informatics Olympiad - Summary | 344 | 1,716 | null |
Section: Competition format. In the British Informatics Olympiad round 1, there are 3 questions to be completed in 3 hours. Each question has a primary programming question that is worth the bulk of the points. The first question is designed to be easily completed by anyone, whilst the rest are significantly more diffi... | Wikipedia - British Informatics Olympiad - Competition format | 181 | 939 | null |
Article: Cambridge Diploma in Computer Science. Diploma in Computer Science, originally known as the Diploma in Numerical Analysis and Automatic Computing, was a conversion course in computer science offered by the University of Cambridge. It is equivalent to a master's degree in present-day nomenclature but the title ... | Wikipedia - Cambridge Diploma in Computer Science - Summary | 165 | 849 | null |
Section: History. The introduction of this one-year graduate course was motivated by a University of Cambridge Mathematics Faculty Board Report on the "demand for postgraduate instruction in numerical analysis and automatic computing … [which] if not met, there is a danger that the application to scientific research of... | Wikipedia - Cambridge Diploma in Computer Science - History | 326 | 1,600 | null |
Article: Centre for Secure Information Technologies. In 2008 Queen's University Belfast's Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology (ECIT) was chosen to host the Centre for Secure Information Technologies ('CSIT), one of only seven UK Innovation and Knowledge Centres (IKCs). Funded by the Engi... | Wikipedia - Centre for Secure Information Technologies - Summary | 190 | 956 | null |
Article: Code Club. Code Club is a voluntary initiative, founded in 2012. The initiative aims to provide opportunities for children aged 9 to 13 to develop coding skills through free after-school clubs. As of November 2015, over 3,800 schools and other public venues established a Code Club, regularly attended by an est... | Wikipedia - Code Club - Summary | 171 | 895 | null |
Article: Code First Girls. Code First Girls is a social enterprise that provides free coding courses to women and non-binary people across the UK, Ireland, the USA, Switzerland and the Netherlands. The organization helps companies recruit more women into the tech sector by connecting them with newly trained female deve... | Wikipedia - Code First Girls - Summary | 287 | 1,413 | null |
Section: History. Code First Girls began in late 2012 as "a nine-week, free, part-time course to get female graduates from all walks of life not only interested in coding, but also better equipped to contribute to technical discussions in high-tech businesses". Founded by Alice Bentinck and Matt Clifford, Code First: G... | Wikipedia - Code First Girls - History | 185 | 870 | null |
Section: Production. Filming of the series took place in October 1981, before Acorn had fully completed the development and productionization of the BBC Micro. The machines used on the demonstration segments were in fact early pre-production models which barely worked, and Acorn engineer Steve Furber was working behind... | Wikipedia - The Computer Programme - Production | 196 | 990 | null |
Section: Distribution. The programme was broadcast in the United States in 1983 by PBS. In addition, stock footage from The Computer Programme was incorporated into the 2009 BBC one-off drama Micro Men, which focused on the early fortunes of British computer manufacturers Sinclair Research and Acorn Computers (manufact... | Wikipedia - The Computer Programme - Distribution | 154 | 786 | null |
Section: History > 2010s. The 2010 general election would result in a swift change in education policy on computer science education across England. The subject had not been taught as widespread as it could have been, and much more emphasis would now be placed on developing hard-core computing skills, and for primary s... | Wikipedia - Computer science education in the United Kingdom - History > 2010s | 200 | 1,039 | null |
Section: Hardware > Creator Ci20. The Creator Ci20 board is based on an Ingenic JZ4780 mobile-class application processor, which contains a dual-core 1.2 GHz MIPS32 CPU with 32k I&D L1 cache and 512k L2 cache and an IEEE754 Floating Point Unit, coupled with a PowerVR SGX540 GPU. This processor supports MXU, a 32-bit SI... | Wikipedia - Imagination Creator - Hardware > Creator Ci20 | 216 | 726 | null |
Section: Hardware > Creator Ci40. The Creator Ci40 board is based on a cXT200 chip optimized specifically for IoT applications which contains a dual-core, dual-threaded 550 MHz MIPS interAptiv CPU with 32k I&D L1 cache and 512k L2 cache and an IEEE754 Floating Point Unit coupled with an Ensigma C4500 Wi-Fi radio proces... | Wikipedia - Imagination Creator - Hardware > Creator Ci40 | 266 | 814 | null |
Section: Teaching. The Master of Science (MSc) in Computer Science of the institute was one of the first courses in the subject. Barnett also ran informal courses, at the Institute and at the London College of Printing, to explain computer typesetting to officials of the trade unions concerned with the printing industr... | Wikipedia - Institute of Computer Science - Teaching | 157 | 802 | null |
Article: Journal of Functional Programming. The Journal of Functional Programming is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering the design, implementation, and application of functional programming languages, spanning the range from mathematical theory to industrial practice. Topics covered include functional language... | Wikipedia - Journal of Functional Programming - Summary | 185 | 1,050 | null |
Section: Background. The initial motivation for the establishment of a research programme in large-scale complex IT systems was the publication of a 2004 report by the Royal Academy of Engineering and the British Computer Society. This report examined the causes of failure of a number of large software projects and mad... | Wikipedia - Large-scale Complex IT Systems - Background | 336 | 1,875 | null |
Section: Research. The aim of the LSCITS research project is: "to improve existing technical approaches to complex systems engineering and to develop new socio-technical approaches that help us understand the complex interactions between organisations, processes and systems". The LSCITS stack (Figure 1) shows the resea... | Wikipedia - Large-scale Complex IT Systems - Research | 220 | 1,221 | null |
Section: The LSCITS EngD programme. The LSCITS EngD programme is an Engineering Doctorate scheme, coordinated by the University of York that focuses on training and research in complex IT systems. Students on the programme take a range of core and optional taught modules and carry out research in conjunction with an in... | Wikipedia - Large-scale Complex IT Systems - The LSCITS EngD programme | 276 | 1,562 | null |
Section: Key publications > LSCITS in general. R. Calinescu & M. Kwiatkowska (2010). Software Engineering Techniques for the Development of Systems of Systems. In C. Choppy & O. Sokolski (editors), Foundations of Computer Software. Future Trends and Techniques for Development, vol. 6026 of LNCS, pp. 59–82, Springer. Pr... | Wikipedia - Large-scale Complex IT Systems - Key publications > LSCITS in general | 193 | 734 | null |
Section: Key publications > High-integrity systems. X. Ge, R.F. Paige, J. McDermid: Probabilistic Failure Propagation and Transformation Analysis. SAFECOMP 2009: 215–228. Paige, R.F.; Galloway, A.; Charalambous, R.; Ge, X.; Brooke, P.J. (2011). "High-integrity agile processes for the development of safety critical soft... | Wikipedia - Large-scale Complex IT Systems - Key publications > High-integrity systems | 277 | 861 | null |
Section: Key publications > Predictable software systems. R. Calinescu, L. Grunske, M. Kwiatkowska, R. Mirandola, G. Tamburrelli (2011). Dynamic QoS Management and Optimisation in Service-Based Systems. In: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. L. Feng, M. Kwiatkowska and D. Parker. (2011) Automated Learning of Pr... | Wikipedia - Large-scale Complex IT Systems - Key publications > Predictable software systems | 255 | 972 | null |
Section: Publications by similar groups. Ultra-large scale systems: Overview. Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. Goth, G. (2008). "Ultralarge Systems: Redefining Software Engineering?". IEEE Software. 25 (3): 91–94. doi:10.1109/MS.2008.82. H. Sillitto, (2010) "Design Principles for Ultra-Large-... | Wikipedia - Large-scale Complex IT Systems - Publications by similar groups | 159 | 632 | null |
Section: Presenters. Ian McNaught-Davis (known as 'Mac') was once again the anchorman but Chris Serle and Gill Nevill were absent, instead various experts were brought in as required to demonstrate some of the more technical aspects of the microcomputers and their uses. John Coll was the main technical 'bod' (he had al... | Wikipedia - Making the Most of the Micro - Presenters | 167 | 803 | null |
Article: Micro Live. Micro Live is a BBC2 TV series that was produced by David Allen as part of the BBC's Computer Literacy Project, and followed on from earlier series such as The Computer Programme, Computers in Control, and Making the Most of the Micro. As the name implies, the series was broadcast live (so causing ... | Wikipedia - Micro Live - Summary | 332 | 1,596 | null |
Section: Hacking incident. The first one-off special was the subject of a memorable hacking incident. Ian McNaught-Davis and John Coll logged into the programme's BT Gold email account to demonstrate the features of the then relatively new idea of email, only to find that the account had been hacked. Shortly before air... | Wikipedia - Micro Live - Hacking incident | 301 | 1,358 | null |
Section: Origins. The Microelectronics Education Programme was developed by the Department for Education and Science when the Prime Minister at the time, Jim Callaghan asked each government department to draw up an action plan to meet the challenge of new technologies. Whilst the prior programme, the National Developme... | Wikipedia - Microelectronics Education Programme - Origins | 156 | 858 | null |
Section: Central team. The director of the programme was Richard Fothergill. By April 1981 he had set up a small team of people, operating from offices at Cheviot House in Newcastle Polytechnic. John Anderson was appointed Deputy, and the rest of the central team consisted of Bob Coates, Helen Hindess, Mike Bostock and... | Wikipedia - Microelectronics Education Programme - Central team | 175 | 859 | null |
Article: National Coding Week. National Coding Week was founded by former headteacher Richard Rolfe and tech entrepreneur Jordan Love, who was appointed EU Code Week Ambassador for the UK. It took place during the week commencing September 21, 2014 with the aim of helping adults to improve their digital literacy in ord... | Wikipedia - National Coding Week - Summary | 172 | 904 | null |
Section: History. In 2015 National Coding Week ran from 21 September and spread beyond the UK. The week gained coverage and support in the EU and in the US. A number of prominent business leaders offered support to National Coding Week including Brian Doll VP of GitHub, Prince Andrew, Congressman Kevin McCarthy and Tim... | Wikipedia - National Coding Week - History | 317 | 1,616 | null |
I’m delighted to launch the National Coding Week in Wales and am pleased this is taking place in a library, which is the ideal place to get support to learn new skills. It’s particularly good to launch it in the new digital floor of Cardiff Central Library, which received a grant from the Welsh Government towards its m... | Wikipedia - National Coding Week - History | 167 | 867 | null |
Section: Formation and early years. The National Computing Centre was founded on 10 June 1966 by the Labour government, as an autonomous not-for-profit organisation, in order to be the "voice of the computer user", encourage the growth of computer usage in the UK and ensure that the necessary education and training was... | Wikipedia - National Computing Centre - Formation and early years | 251 | 1,334 | null |
Section: MBO, NCC Services Ltd and NCC Group plc. In 1999, it sold its commercial divisions (turnover of less than £10 million), which provided escrow, consultancy, system engineering services to its existing management team supported by ECI Ventures for £5 million. This new company was named NCC Services Limited and l... | Wikipedia - National Computing Centre - MBO, NCC Services Ltd and NCC Group plc | 327 | 1,607 | null |
Section: 21st Century. NCC received substantial proceeds from the sale of NCC Group Limited (circa £11 million between 2000 and 2003 plus dividends) and from the multi-million sale of its Manchester city centre buildings (Armstrong House and Oxford House) to Bruntwood Group. Following the retirement of Perkins, Michael... | Wikipedia - National Computing Centre - 21st Century | 297 | 1,591 | null |
Contracts were won to support the uptake of IT particularly amongst SMEs including open source software and the Open Source Academy, and the development of an accreditation standard for IT services which became operational in 2009. There was a re-branding exercise in which NCC re-branded as Principia, a brand that was ... | Wikipedia - National Computing Centre - 21st Century | 260 | 1,330 | null |
Section: Administration, liquidation and pre-pack. In February 2010, NCC went into administration and ultimately liquidation. The few remaining assets and intellectual property rights were transferred in a "pre-pack" administration arrangement to Redholt Ltd a new private company, thus distancing the new company from t... | Wikipedia - National Computing Centre - Administration, liquidation and pre-pack | 323 | 1,658 | null |
The insolvency practitioner dealing with the companies affairs was Wilkins Kennedy of London. It would appear that from this point NCC Ltd was no longer recognised by any trade body, association or any part of government as the "voice of the computer user" and offered no substantial services to its client base and beca... | Wikipedia - National Computing Centre - Administration, liquidation and pre-pack | 158 | 806 | null |
Section: Structure and Governance. NCET was a charitable trust funded by government and formally a Non-Departmental Public Body. It had a Council (acting as the organisation's board of directors), whose chairman and chief executive were responsible to the Secretaries of State of the Education Departments in England, No... | Wikipedia - National Council for Educational Technology - Structure and Governance | 193 | 1,008 | null |
Article: The National Museum of Computing. The National Museum of Computing is a UK-based museum that is dedicated to collecting and restoring historic computer systems, and is home to the world's largest collection of working historic computers. The museum is located on Bletchley Park in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire... | Wikipedia - The National Museum of Computing - Summary | 249 | 1,251 | null |
Section: Origins. The Bletchley Park estate was threatened with demolition and redevelopment in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It was saved in 1993 thanks to the efforts of the Bletchley Park Trust (BPT), which had been established in the previous year. One leading member – and secretary to the Trust – was a scientist... | Wikipedia - The National Museum of Computing - Origins | 335 | 1,669 | null |
Section: Exhibits > Bombe Gallery. This gallery tells the story of Cryptanalysis of the Enigma. Enigma machines were used by the Germans before and during WWII for sending secret messages. Alan Turing further developed, and Gordon Welchman enhanced, an idea implemented by Polish codebreakers, of a machine to assist in ... | Wikipedia - The National Museum of Computing - Exhibits > Bombe Gallery | 175 | 868 | null |
Section: Exhibits > Tunny and Colossus Galleries. Separate from the Enigma story is the less well-known endeavour of the diagnosing and deciphering of messages produced by the more secure 12-rotor Lorenz SZ teleprinter cipher attachments, which is told in these two galleries. The Tunny galley exhibits one of the very f... | Wikipedia - The National Museum of Computing - Exhibits > Tunny and Colossus Galleries | 341 | 1,554 | null |
As its name implies, Colossus is a large machine which weighed five tonnes. It was designed and built for the single purpose of assisting with deciphering messages enciphered with the 'Tunny' machines. At the heart of the machine is a set of five counters that, for each transit of the looped paper tape containing the m... | Wikipedia - The National Museum of Computing - Exhibits > Tunny and Colossus Galleries | 199 | 991 | null |
Section: Exhibits > First Generation Gallery. This gallery continues the story of valve or tube-based computers and exhibits three large machines and many other related items. The three unique large machines are: EDSAC – a replica nearing completion. The machine is owned and managed by the EDSAC Replica Project, which ... | Wikipedia - The National Museum of Computing - Exhibits > First Generation Gallery | 346 | 1,770 | null |
Simplicity, reliability and unattended operation were the design priorities. Speed was a lesser consideration. This pioneering computer first ran in 1951 and by 1952 was using 828 Dekatron tubes for program and data storage, relays for sequence control and valve-based electronics for calculations. When it was pitched a... | Wikipedia - The National Museum of Computing - Exhibits > First Generation Gallery | 332 | 1,640 | null |
HEC was based on an original design by Andrew Booth of Birkbeck College, London University. His design for a small scientific computer was adapted by Raymond Bird at BTM in 1951 to become a prototype commercial computer designed to work with the punched card equipment familiar to BTM's customers. The first production m... | Wikipedia - The National Museum of Computing - Exhibits > First Generation Gallery | 244 | 1,224 | null |
Section: Exhibits > Large Systems Gallery. This gallery contains many machines of the 1960s, -70s and -80s and one or two from the 1990s. Many machines are in working order and include: Marconi TAC. Designed in 1959/60 this was one of the first transistorised computers made in the UK. The machine on show was one of a p... | Wikipedia - The National Museum of Computing - Exhibits > Large Systems Gallery | 338 | 1,597 | null |
An estimated 10,000 systems are believed to have been built during a working life spanning nearly 20 years. IBM 1130s for the US market were manufactured in San Jose, but for the rest of the world they were manufactured in Greenock, Scotland. As well as being used in small to medium sized offices, it was marketed to pr... | Wikipedia - The National Museum of Computing - Exhibits > Large Systems Gallery | 318 | 1,511 | null |
The museum's 2966 was donated by Tarmac who used it as a 1900, until it was decommissioned in 1999, due in part, to fears that it would be affected by the ′Millennium Bug′. Almost all large mainframes were broken up for scrap when they reached the end of their working lives, but Tony Sale, one of the founders of the Co... | Wikipedia - The National Museum of Computing - Exhibits > Large Systems Gallery | 340 | 1,609 | null |
Section: Exhibits > PC Gallery. This gallery exhibits many of the familiar home and business computers of the 1980s and 1990s. Visitors can play some of the popular home computer games of the time as well. On show are, amongst others: An early desktop PDP-8 from the 1960s. Examples of early self-build machines from Nas... | Wikipedia - The National Museum of Computing - Exhibits > PC Gallery | 201 | 942 | null |
Section: Exhibits > Exhibition space. Various substantial exhibitions reside here for periods of months or years. The National Air Traffic Services (NATS) Engineering Training College used to be located at Bletchley Park. It provided an exhibition in this gallery which used the actual equipment — with its panoramic thr... | Wikipedia - The National Museum of Computing - Exhibits > Exhibition space | 233 | 1,221 | null |
Section: Exhibits > Innovation Hub and BBC classroom. These are two adjacent and interconnected education areas. The Innovation Hub was equipped by Fujitsu as part of its Education Ambassador Programme. It contains an array of Fujitsu technology including tablets, hybrid devices, laptops and desktop PCs. Next door is t... | Wikipedia - The National Museum of Computing - Exhibits > Innovation Hub and BBC classroom | 165 | 889 | null |
Section: Exhibits > Internet Gallery. This gallery was sponsored by the UK's National Physical Laboratory. It tells the story of how, in 1965, Donald Davies, a member of the team there responsible for building Alan Turing's Automatic Computing Engine (ACE) thought of the idea of a network of interconnected data termina... | Wikipedia - The National Museum of Computing - Exhibits > Internet Gallery | 252 | 1,236 | null |
Section: Funding. The museum entirely depends on voluntary and corporate donations and admission charges. Fund-raising continues and donors have included Bletchley Park Capital Partners, Fujitsu, Google UK, CreateOnline, Ceravision, Insight software, PGP Corporation, IBM, NPL, HP Labs, British Computer Society (BCS), B... | Wikipedia - The National Museum of Computing - Funding | 218 | 1,027 | null |
Section: Opening. The Museum is normally open to the public 4 days a week: Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, and Sundays, from 10:30am to 4:30pm during the winter period, extending to 5pm during the summer months. Demonstrations and talks in the Bombe, Tunny, and Colossus galleries usually occur on the hour, with slight ... | Wikipedia - The National Museum of Computing - Opening | 152 | 705 | null |
Section: Today. Today, we have developed a network of over 200 partner centres located in more than 50 countries, international offices situated in the UK (Manchester), China (Beijing), Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur), Singapore, and South Africa (Cape Town), and employs academic managers worldwide. NCC Education is accredited... | Wikipedia - NCC Education - Today | 156 | 771 | null |
Section: Honours and awards. Kathryn successfully campaigned for code to be introduced to the UK national curriculum making it one of the first countries in the world to do so. She was awarded an MBE for Services to Education in the Queen’s New Year Honours. Parsons sat on the Business Advisory Boards to Number Ten Dow... | Wikipedia - Kathryn Parsons - Honours and awards | 158 | 841 | null |
Section: History. In 1985 three former Intel employees - Mike Cheeseman, Jim Watt and Howard Kornstein - formed QA Training Ltd. The name came from a combination of Queen Anne House in Cirencester and the term Quality Assurance. In the early days, the company rented office space in the Cirencester Park Estate, where th... | Wikipedia - QA (company) - History | 336 | 1,518 | null |
Section: Services. QA offers learning across multiple modalities: Instructor-led training: QA provides around 2,200 courses and certifications plus bespoke learning and managed learning services to their clients. Programmes offered include Cyber Security, Agile, DevOps, Project Management, Leadership, IT Service Manage... | Wikipedia - QA (company) - Services | 299 | 1,550 | null |
Article: Raspberry Pi. Raspberry Pi ( PY) is a series of small single-board computers (SBCs) developed in the United Kingdom by the Raspberry Pi Foundation in collaboration with Broadcom. To commercialize the product and support its growing demand, the Foundation established a commercial entity, Raspberry Pi Holdings, ... | Wikipedia - Raspberry Pi - Summary | 260 | 1,212 | null |
Section: Origins and company history. The Raspberry Pi Foundation was created as a private company limited by guarantee in 2008, and was registered as a charity in 2009 by people at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory who had noticed a decline in the number and skills of young people applying for computer s... | Wikipedia - Raspberry Pi - Origins and company history | 220 | 1,045 | null |
Section: Series and generations > Flagship series. The Flagship series, often referred to simply as "Raspberry Pi", offer high-performance hardware, a full Linux operating system, and a variety of common ports in a compact form factor roughly the size of a credit card. The Raspberry Pi Model B was the first computer re... | Wikipedia - Raspberry Pi - Series and generations > Flagship series | 316 | 1,312 | null |
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