Conway Berners-Lee | |
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| Born | Conway Maurice Berners-Lee 19 September 1921 Birmingham, England |
| Died | 1 February 2019 (aged 97)[1] |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
| Employer(s) | NPL ICI, Ferranti, ICT, ICL |
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| Children | Tim Peter Helen Mike |
| Parent(s) | Helen Lane Campbell Gray and Cecil Burford Berners-Lee |
Conway Maurice Berners-Lee (19 September 1921[2] – 1 February 2019) 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.[3][4] He was born in Birmingham in 1921[5] 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.
- ^ Gagne, Ken (27 December 2019). "Tech luminaries we lost in 2019". Computerworld. Retrieved 28 February 2021.
- ^ Reed Business Information (7 March 1957). New Scientist. Reed Business Information. pp. 43–.
{{cite book}}:|author=has generic name (help)[permanent dead link] - ^ Conway and Mary Lee Berners-Lee, interviewed by Thomas Lean, 2010–2011, An Oral History of British Science, British Library Sound & Moving Image reference C1379/23 Audio and Transcript (at British Library only but brief Content summary available online).
- ^ Although the Ferranti Mark 1was preceded by the BINAC and the Z4, BINIAC was not designed as a general purpose computer and it was never used for its intended purpose,"Description of the BINAC", citing Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 10 No. 1 1988, archived from the original on 4 August 2008, retrieved 5 June 2009 and Konrad Zuse's Z4 was electro-mechanical not electronic Dead medium: the Zuse Ziffernrechner; the V1, Z1, Z2, Z3 and Z4 program-controlled electromechanical digital computers; the death of Konrad Zuse, retrieved 5 June 2009
- ^ "Births", The Times, no. 42835, London, p. 1, 26 September 1921