Professor Brian Warboys is the current Head of Department. Professor Simon
Lavington (XTS) of the University of Essex
has written books on early
British Computers, in particular "A History of Manchester Computers", a second
edition of which was published in 1998 to coincide with the Celebrations; this
is reproduced on the CD-ROM also produced for the
Celebrations. This book is one of the
sources for these pages.