It is now a year since we lost a remarkable colleague.
Graeme Philipson was a poet, an author, an IT journalist and commentator.
The Pearcey Foundation had commissioned Graeme to write a definitive history of Australia in the digital age. At his death he had almost completed the first section of this major work. The Pearcey Foundation has resolved to publish the work Graeme had completed and to ensure we continue the project he had initiated.
In August 1951, a group of scientists gathered at the University of Sydney to attend the first Australian conference on automatic computing machines.
In August 1951, a group of scientists gathered at the University of Sydney to attend the first Australian conference on automatic computing machines.
In 1951 there was a major conference held at the University of Sydney which marked the beginning of a new science in Australia, Computer Science.
On June 14, 1956 the computer CSIRAC was officially recommissioned at the new Computation Laboratory at the University of Melbourne.
This is a remarkable book. It is frank, insightful and at times hard hitting.
It traces the life, loves and career path, in UK and Australia, of a courageous and very competent woman from the earliest days of the computer age, through to the current times.