Conway Maurice Berners-Lee was an English mathematician and computer scientist who worked as a member of the team that developed the Ferranti Mark 1, the world's first commercial stored program electronic computer.
16 Facts About Conway Berners-Lee
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Conway Berners-Lee was born in Birmingham in 1921 and was the father of Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, and Professor Mike Berners-Lee, researcher into climate change.
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Conway Berners-Lee died in February 2019 at the age of 97.
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Early in World War II whilst an undergraduate at Trinity College, Cambridge reading mathematics, Conway Berners-Lee volunteered for the armed services, but was instructed to stay on to take parts I and II of the mathematical tripos as a compressed two-year course, because the government needed people trained in mathematics and electronics.
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Conway Berners-Lee worked on Gun Laying and Searchlight Radar in England.
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Conway Berners-Lee then had a chance to join the statistics bureau in the GHQ in Cairo, known as the Number 1 Statistics Unit of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
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Conway Berners-Lee was employed to close down a very large punched card installation involving about five million 65-column punched cards covering all types of vehicle and spares.
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Conway Berners-Lee was demobilised in 1947 with the rank of Major.
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Conway Berners-Lee then worked on a punched card data processing system for the Plastics Division of Imperial Chemical Industries.
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Conway Berners-Lee met his wife Mary Lee Woods at the Ferranti Christmas party in Manchester in 1952.
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Conway Berners-Lee had been working as a programmer on the Ferranti Mark 1 and Mark 1 Star computers at the Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester since 1951.
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Conway Berners-Lee joined Ferranti in 1953 working at Ferranti's London Computer Centre.
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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'.
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Conway Berners-Lee directed the development of routines for the basic data processing techniques of sorting and updating files.
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Conway Berners-Lee was involved in some of the earliest developments in the applications of computers in medicine, and his text compression ideas were taken up by an early electronic patient record system.
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Conway Berners-Lee received much encouragement when Hughes and Moe at Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, predicted the effect of increasing the memory on their Univac Installation.