Geoff C Tootill was an electronic engineer and computer scientist who worked in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Manchester with Freddie Williams and Tom Kilburn developing the Manchester Baby, "the world's first wholly electronic stored-program computer".
12 Facts About Geoff Tootill
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Geoff Tootill was forced to do the course in two years as his studies were cut short by World War II.
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On leaving Cambridge in 1942, Geoff Tootill managed to get assigned to work on airborne radar at the Telecommunications Research Establishment in Malvern.
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Geoff Tootill later said that this was the most responsible job that he had in his life.
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Geoff Tootill instructed Alan Turing on use of the Manchester Baby and debugged a program Turing had written to run on the Baby.
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In 1949, Geoff Tootill joined Ferranti where he developed the logic design of the first commercial computer.
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Geoff Tootill stayed at Ferranti only briefly and later the same year, he joined the Royal Military College of Science at Shrivenham as a Senior Lecturer on a considerably higher salary, lecturing and leading lab studies on digital computing.
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In 1956, Geoff Tootill joined the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, researching issues for air traffic control systems.
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Geoff Tootill was a founding member of the British Computer Society in 1956.
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In 1963, Geoff Tootill joined the newly formed European Space Research Organisation.
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Geoff Tootill set up and directed the Control Centre of ESRO, with its ground stations.
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Geoff Tootill met Pamela Watson while in Malvern during World War II, where they were both members of the "Flying Rockets Concert Party".