1 A Virtual Reality Demonstration
The Department held an Open Day on Saturday June 20th. Manchester Computing (on the ground floor of the Computer Science Building) also held an Open Day the same day.
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A Virtual Reality Demonstration
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Micromouse -- Behind the Scenes
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Micromouse -- A Mouse in a Maze
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Micromouse -- A Modest Winner?!
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Tom Kilburn with Joe McCormick
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Tom Kilburn with Diana Leach
The Advanced Interfaces Group
ran a series of
demonstrations during
the Golden Anniversary Conference and the Open Day. Here the audience (fitted
with 3-D spectacles) are watching a stereo navigation around an offshore
gas station.
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One of the Departmental Laboratories was taken over by the Micromouse
competitors to set up and test their mice.
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The prizes were presented by Dr. Michael G. Rodd, I.E.E. Deputy Secretary,
on the left, with
Professor
Steve Furber of the Department of Computer Science, centre. In fact
the boy is not the winner of the Junior Competition, but he is
holding up the certificate of his father, on the right, the winner of
the Advanced competition, Dave Otten from the US.
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Professor Tom Kilburn with Joe McCormick. Joe joined the University in 1933 at the age of 14, originally with the Physics Department, where one of his early tasks was to help dismantle the Meccano prototype of the Hartree Differential Analyser. In 1935 he transferred to Electro-technics. When the Baby was built he was Senior Technician in the Department, now called Electrical Engineering. When the new Department of Computer Science was created from the Computer Group of Electrical Engineering in 1964, Joe went with them as Chief Technician, later renamed Laboratory Superintendent. He retired in 1980, after 47 years, having seen the whole progression from Differential Analyser to PC!
Joe in fact did little direct work to help with building the Baby, which was
mostly physically done by Tom and Geoff Tootill, but he did produce the
blueprints for the diagrams in Tom's famous
1947 report.
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Dr. Diana Leitch is Assistant Director and Deputy Librarian of the
John Rylands University Library of
Manchester.
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