Oral History with Brian Randell
2021-01-07
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Oral History with Brian Randell
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2021-01-07
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Charles Babbage Institute
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Brian Randell tells about his upbringing and his work at English Electric, IBM, and Newcastle University. The primary topic of the interview is his work in the history of computing. He discusses his discovery of the Irish computer pioneer Percy Ludgate, the preparation of his edited volume The Origins of Digital Computers, various lectures he has given on the history of computing, his PhD supervision of Martin Campbell-Kelly, the Computer History Museum, his contribution to the second edition of A Computer Perspective, and his involvement in making public the World War 2 Bletchley Park Colossus code-breaking machines, among other topics. This interview is part of a series of interviews on the early history of the history of computing.
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Transcript, 31 pp.
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Randell, Brian. (2021). Oral History with Brian Randell. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/219066.
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