Biography:Martin Campbell-Kelly

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Martin Campbell-Kelly
NationalityUnited Kingdom
Alma materSunderland Polytechnic (PhD)
Known forHistory of computing
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsUniversity of Warwick
ThesisFoundations of computer programming in Britain 1945-1955 (1980)
Doctoral studentsMary Croarken
Websitewarwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/dcs/people/martin_campbell-kelly/

Martin Campbell-Kelly FCBS FLSW is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Warwick who has specialised in the history of computing.[1][2]

Campbell-Kelly has served on the editorial board of the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing journal. He is a committee member of the Computer Conservation Society, a Specialist Group of the British Computer Society, and is a Gresham College lecturer.[3][4]

In 2011, Campbell-Kelly was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.[5]

Education

Campell-Kelly was educated at Sunderland Polytechnic where he was awarded a PhD in 1980 on the Foundations of computer programming in Britain 1945–1955.[6]

Research

Campbell-Kelly has authored, edited numerous books and journal articles on the history of computing.[7][8][9][10][11][12][13]

References

  1. Martin Campbell-Kelly, Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, UK.
  2. Campbell-Kelly, M. (2014). "Sir Maurice Vincent Wilkes 26 June 1913 – 29 November 2010". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 60: 433–454. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2013.0020. 
  3. "Professor Martin Campbell-Kelly". https://www.gresham.ac.uk/professors-and-speakers/professor-martin-campbell-kelly/. 
  4. Martin Campbell-Kelly his obituaries of prominent computer science figures in The Guardian
  5. Wales, The Learned Society of. "Martin Campbell-Kelly" (in en-US). https://www.learnedsociety.wales/fellow/martin-campbell-kelly/. 
  6. Campbell-Kelly, Martin. (1980). Foundations of computer programming in Britain 1945–1955 (PhD thesis). Sunderland Polytechnic.
  7. Books by Martin Campbell-Kelly, Google Books.
  8. Martin Campbell-Kelly (1989). ICL: A Business and Technical History. Clarendon: Oxford University Press. pp. 409. ISBN 0-19-853918-5. https://books.google.com/books?id=05K1AAAAIAAJ. 
  9. Martin Campbell-Kelly and William Aspray (1996). A History of the Information Machine, Basic Books/HarperCollins. ISBN:0-465-02989-2.
  10. Martin Campbell-Kelly, ed (2003). The History of Mathematical Tables. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-850841-0. 
  11. Martin Campbell-Kelly (December 2005). "The User-friendly Typewriter". The Rutherford Journal 1. http://www.rutherfordjournal.org/article010105.html. 
  12. Martin Campbell-Kelly (September 2009). The Origin of Computing, Scientific American.
  13. Campbell-Kelly, M. (2006). "David John Wheeler. 9 February 1927 -- 13 December 2004: Elected FRS 1981". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 52: 437. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2006.0030. 

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