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Manchester University School of Computer Science is a department in the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences of the University of Manchester which teaches and researches Computer Science.

Contents 1 History 2 Achievements 3 Notable people 4 References 5 External links

[edit] History

The school has its roots in the Computer Group of the Electrical Engineering Department at the Victoria University of Manchester. The Computer Group was established following Freddie Williams' move to the Electrical Engineering Department in 1946.

At its formation in 1964, the Department of Computer Science was the first such department in the United Kingdom.

The School was formed from the Department when the Victoria University of Manchester and UMIST merged to form the University of Manchester in 2004.

[edit] Achievements

• The world's first stored program digital computer (the Small-Scale Experimental Machine)
• Virtual memory using paging (see Atlas Computer)
• Manchester encoding
• The AMULET microprocessor series (asynchronous implementations of the ARM computer architecture)

[edit] Notable people

• Steve Furber, ICL Professor of Computer Engineering
• Tom Kilburn, first head of the Department of Computer Science
• Alan Turing
• Freddie Williams

[edit] References

• History of the School of Computer Science

[edit] External links

• University of Manchester, School of Computer Science
• The University of Manchester celebrates the Birth of the Modern Computer