University of Cambridge Computing Service
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University of Cambridge
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. It is located primarily on the New Museums Site
New Museums Site
The New Museums Site is a major site of the University of Cambridge, located in the centre of the city, on Pembroke Street and Free School Lane, sandwiched between Corpus Christi College, Pembroke College and the Lion Yard. Its postcode is CB2 3QH...
, Free School Lane
Free School Lane
Free School Lane is in the centre of the City of Cambridge, England. It is the location of the Whipple Museum of the History of Science, the Department of History and Philosophy of Science the University's faculty of Social and Political Sciences, and is the original site of the Cavendish...
, in the centre of Cambridge
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, England
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The Computing Service shares a common ancestry with the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory
The Computer Laboratory is the computer science department of the University of Cambridge. As of 2007, it employs 35 academic staff, 25 support staff, 35 affiliated research staff, and about 155 research students...
. Founded on 14 May 1937 to provide a computing service for general use, and to be a centre for the development of computational techniques in the University as the Mathematical Laboratory (under the leadership of John Lennard-Jones
John Lennard-Jones
Sir John Edward Lennard-Jones KBE, FRS was a mathematician who was a professor of theoretical physics at Bristol University, and then of theoretical science at Cambridge University...
), it was not until 2001 that the provision of computing services across the University and Colleges was fully separated from computing research and teaching.
Landmark projects and services
- EDSACEDSACElectronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator was an early British computer. The machine, having been inspired by John von Neumann's seminal First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC, was constructed by Maurice Wilkes and his team at the University of Cambridge Mathematical Laboratory in England...
computer, 1949 - TitanTitan (computer)Titan was the prototype of the Atlas 2 computer developed by Ferranti and the University of Cambridge Mathematical Laboratory in Cambridge, England...
computer, 1964 - PhoenixPhoenix (computer)Phoenix was an IBM mainframe computer at Cambridge University's Computer Laboratory. "Phoenix/MVS" was also the name of the computer's operating system, written in-house by Computer Laboratory members. Its DNS hostname was phx.cam.ac.uk.- Hardware :The Phoenix system was an IBM 370/165...
computer, 1971 - EximEximExim is a mail transfer agent used on Unix-like operating systems. Exim is free software distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, and it aims to be a general and flexible mailer with extensive facilities for checking incoming e-mail....
mail transfer agent, 1995 - Raven authentication service, 2004
Directors of the University of Cambridge Computing Service
- Maurice Wilkes 1945–1980 (as head of the University of Cambridge Computer LaboratoryUniversity of Cambridge Computer LaboratoryThe Computer Laboratory is the computer science department of the University of Cambridge. As of 2007, it employs 35 academic staff, 25 support staff, 35 affiliated research staff, and about 155 research students...
) - D. F. Hartley 1970–1994 (first head of the dedicated University Computing Service)
- Mike Sayers 1994–2004
- Ian LewisIan LewisIan Lewis is the Director of the University of Cambridge Computing Service 2005-.Educated at Queen Mary College, London and awarded a PhD at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, he went on to become Global CIO for Investment Banking at Merrill Lynch before returning to the University of...
2005–
See also
- University of Cambridge Computer LaboratoryUniversity of Cambridge Computer LaboratoryThe Computer Laboratory is the computer science department of the University of Cambridge. As of 2007, it employs 35 academic staff, 25 support staff, 35 affiliated research staff, and about 155 research students...
- Oxford University Computing ServicesOxford University Computing ServicesOxford University Computing Services provides the central Information Technology services for the University of Oxford. The service is based at 7-19 Banbury Road in central north Oxford, England, near the junction with Keble Road....