1948
Manchester Computing Laboratory
Moves to the University of Manchester as Deputy Director of the Computing Machine Laboratory.
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Browse historical events and people recorded at University of Manchester in Great Britain. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Moves to the University of Manchester as Deputy Director of the Computing Machine Laboratory.
Begins contributing to the practical and theoretical development of the Manchester Mark I computer.
Works on early software requirements needed to make the Manchester Mark I useful to mathematical programmers.
Helps obtain paper-tape equipment and assists with attaching it to the Manchester Mark I.
Is chiefly responsible for the base-32 notation used by programmers working with the Manchester and Ferranti machines.
Contributes to additional Ferranti Mark I instructions, notably the random-number generator order.
Designs the Scheme A method of organising programs and subroutines with Cicely Popplewell for the Ferranti Mark I.
Encourages Christopher Stracheys early computer work and provides access to programming information for the Manchester machine.
Writes the first edition of the Programmers Handbook for the Manchester Electronic Computer Mark II.
Documents programming conventions, coding examples, routine organisation and practical methods for users of the Manchester computer.
Takes a leading role in preparing programmers to use the Ferranti Mark I delivered to Manchester.
Submits his major manuscript on the mathematical basis of biological pattern formation to the Royal Society.
Uses numerical and computational thinking to explore non-linear biological pattern formation and the onset of instability.
Uses the term morphogens for interacting chemical substances whose reaction and diffusion can organise developing biological form.
Shows mathematically how interacting chemical substances that diffuse at different rates can generate spatial biological patterns.
Analyses conditions under which reaction-diffusion systems can produce stationary wave-like patterns in a ring of cells.
Explains how a homogeneous chemical state can become unstable and develop organised spatial structure after small disturbances.
Investigates mathematical relationships between morphogenesis, phyllotaxis and Fibonacci-type structures in plants.
Extends his morphogenesis research toward the mathematical study of leaf arrangement and plant pattern formation.
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