1. Philip Woodward was responsible for the software of one of the UK's first electronic computers, the TRE Automatic Computer followed by the UK's first solid state computer, the Royal Radar Establishment Automatic Computer.
10 Facts About Philip Woodward
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Philip Woodward is the author of the book Probability and Information Theory, with Applications to Radar.
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Professor Edwin Thompson Jaynes in his posthumously published book recognized Philip Woodward as having been "many years ahead of his time" and as having shown "prophetic insight into what was to come" in the application of probability and statistics to the recovery of data from noisy samples.
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When in 2000, the Philip Woodward Building was opened by Sir John Chisholm at the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency, now privatized as QinetiQ, guests were given complimentary clocks as souvenirs of the occasion and of Philip Woodward's horological interests.
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In retirement, Philip Woodward wrote another book, My Own Right Time, known as MORT, a record of his passion for horology.
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Philip Woodward contributed dozens of articles to horological periodicals over more than 30 years.
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Philip Woodward built the case, assembling it with intricate but invisible hidden mitre joints.
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Philip Woodward was born on 6 September 1919 and educated at Blundell's School in Tiverton, Devon.
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Philip Woodward met his wife, mathematician Alice Mary Winter Robertson whilst they shared an office in Durnford House in Langton Matravers as part of the Telecommunications Research Establishment.
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Philip Woodward lived in Malvern, Worcestershire, England, where he died on 30 January 2018 at the age of 98.