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Brian Randell
Born1936 (age 87–88)
London, United Kingdom
CitizenshipUnited Kingdom
Alma materImperial College London
Known forALGOL 60, software fault tolerance, dependability, early pre-1950 history of computing hardware
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
InstitutionsNewcastle University
Notable studentsRoy H. Campbell

Brian Randell DSc FBCS FLSW (born 1936) is a British computer scientist, and emeritus professor at the School of Computing, Newcastle University, United Kingdom. He specialises in research into software fault tolerance and dependability, and is a noted authority on the early pre-1950 history of computing hardware.

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Brian Randell DSc FBCS FLSW (born 1936) is a British computer scientist, and emeritus professor at the School of Computing, Newcastle University, United...

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Lynn Conway

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designing an advanced supercomputer, working alongside John Cocke, Brian Randell, Herbert Schorr, Ed Sussenguth, Fran Allen and other IBM researchers...

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Percy Ludgate

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Census Years 1911. The National Archives of Ireland. 1911. Coghlan, Brian; Randell, Brian (2022). Percy Ludgate (1883-1922): Ireland's First Computer Designer...

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Dependability

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Dependability, see 192-01-22 Dependability. A. Avizienis, J.-C. Laprie, Brian Randell, and C. Landwehr, "Basic Concepts and Taxonomy of Dependable and Secure...

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Remote procedure call

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processes. One of the earliest practical implementations was in 1982 by Brian Randell and colleagues for their Newcastle Connection between UNIX machines...

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IBM Advanced Computer Systems project

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earnest in late 1963. Bertram brought in John Cocke, Frances Allen, Brian Randell, Herb Schorr, and Edward H. Sussenguth, among others. Schorr developed...

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Randell

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politician Arthur Randell (1901–1988), British author Barbara Rae Randell (born 1942), Australia botanist and entomologist Brian Randell (born 1936), British...

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Software crisis

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April 2017. Edsger Dijkstra: The Humble Programmer (PDF file, 473kB) Brian Randell: The NATO Software Engineering Conferences Markus Bautsch: Cycles of...

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Mechanical calculator

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calculating machine." Bruce Collier, 1970 I. Bernard Cohen, p. 66-67, (2000) Brian Randell, p. 187, 1975 Please see Pascaline#Pascal versus Schickard "The arithmetical...

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Computer

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Nature of Computation, OUP Oxford, p. 291, 2011. ISBN 978-0-199-23321-2 Randell, Brian. Digital Computers, History of Origins, (pdf), p. 545, Digital Computers:...

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Colossus computer

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well-conceived and well-executed projects in the computer field. Professor Brian Randell, who unearthed information about Colossus in the 1970s, commented on...

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Leonardo Torres Quevedo

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paper Essays on Automatics, which has been called by British historian Brian Randell as "a fascinating work which well repays reading even today", where...

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Alan Turing

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anticipated by Babbage, Lovelace and others." Letter by Stanley Frankel to Brian Randell, 1972, quoted in Jack Copeland (2004) The Essential Turing, p. 22. De...

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ALGOL

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ISBN 0134778286. LCCN 64-10740. ark:/13960/t6qz35p37. Retrieved 23 October 2022. Randell, Brian & L. J. Russell (1964). ALGOL 60 Implementation: The Translation and...

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Allen Coombs

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the project when Tommy Flowers moved on to other projects. Professor Brian Randell was researching the history of computer science in Britain for a conference...

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DWIM

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Warren Teitelman, "Toward a programming laboratory", in J. N. Buxton and Brian Randell, Software Engineering Techniques, April 1970, a report on a conference...

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SMALL

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McCarthy Carroll Morgan Peter Naur Maurice Nivat John E. L. Peck Perlis^ Brian Randell Rutishauser^ Samelson^ Jacob T. Schwartz Micha Sharir David Turner Bernard...

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ALGOL 60

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ALGOL 60 (PDF) (Technical report). Amsterdam: Mathematisch Centrum. 35. Randell, Brian; Russell, Lawford John (1964). ALGOL 60 Implementation: The Translation...

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Analytical engine

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Printed for the Institute of Actuaries at the University Press. p. 178. Randell, Brian (21 December 2013). "2.3. Babbage's Analytical Engine. H. P. Babbage...

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Bletchley Park

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former staff still consider themselves bound to silence. Professor Brian Randell was researching the history of computer science in Britain in 1975-76...

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Computer science

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Francis. Randell, Brian (1973). The origins of Digital computers, Selected Papers. Springer-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-540-06169-4. Randell, Brian (October–December...

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ALGOL 68

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signed by Edsger Dijkstra, Fraser Duncan, Jan Garwick, Tony Hoare, Brian Randell, Gerhard Seegmüller, Wlad Turski, and Mike Woodger. September 1973:...

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Simula

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McCarthy Carroll Morgan Peter Naur Maurice Nivat John E. L. Peck Perlis^ Brian Randell Rutishauser^ Samelson^ Jacob T. Schwartz Micha Sharir David Turner Bernard...

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ALGOL 58

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McCarthy Carroll Morgan Peter Naur Maurice Nivat John E. L. Peck Perlis^ Brian Randell Rutishauser^ Samelson^ Jacob T. Schwartz Micha Sharir David Turner Bernard...

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Historical revisionism

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projects in the computer field." In 1976 after the archive were opened Brian Randell wrote in The COLOSSUS on page 87 that: "the COLOSSUS project was an...

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ALGOL W

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McCarthy Carroll Morgan Peter Naur Maurice Nivat John E. L. Peck Perlis^ Brian Randell Rutishauser^ Samelson^ Jacob T. Schwartz Micha Sharir David Turner Bernard...

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