Martin Campbell-Kelly
{{Short description|Computing professor}}
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| birth_date = {{circa}} 1960 (aged {{circa}} 64)
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| workplaces = University of Warwick
| alma_mater = Sunderland Polytechnic (PhD)
| thesis_title = Foundations of computer programming in Britain 1945-1955
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| thesis_year = 1980
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| doctoral_students = Mary Croarken
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| known_for = History of computing
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Martin Campbell-Kelly FCBS FLSW (born {{Circa}} 1960) is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Warwick who has specialised in the history of computing.[http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/dcs/people/martin_campbell-kelly/ Martin Campbell-Kelly], Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, UK.{{Cite journal | last1 = Campbell-Kelly | first1 = M. | author-link1= Martin Campbell-Kelly| doi = 10.1098/rsbm.2013.0020 | title = Sir Maurice Vincent Wilkes 26 June 1913 – 29 November 2010 | journal = Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society | year = 2014 | volume = 60 | pages = 433–454 | doi-access = }}
Education
Campell-Kelly was educated at Sunderland Polytechnic where he was awarded a PhD in 1980 on the Foundations of computer programming in Britain 1945–1955.{{cite thesis| degree=PhD | publisher=Sunderland Polytechnic | title=Foundations of computer programming in Britain 1945–1955 |first= Martin.| last=Campbell-Kelly | date=1980 | url=http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.253210 }}
Research
Campbell-Kelly has authored, edited numerous books and journal articles on the history of computing.[https://books.google.com/books?as_auth=Martin+Campbell+Kelly&source=an&ei=W9TVSqi6GKC6jAec8tn9CQ&sa=X&oi=book_group&ct=title&cad=author-navigational&resnum=5&ved=0CCEQsAMwBA Books by Martin Campbell-Kelly], Google Books.{{cite book|author=Martin Campbell-Kelly|title=ICL: A Business and Technical History|publisher=Oxford University Press|date=1989|isbn=0-19-853918-5|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=05K1AAAAIAAJ}}Martin Campbell-Kelly and William Aspray (1996). Computer: A History of the Information Machine, Basic Books/HarperCollins. {{ISBN|0-465-02989-2}}.{{cite book |editor=Martin Campbell-Kelly |editor2=Mary Croarken |editor3=Raymond Flood |editor3-link=Raymond Flood (mathematician) |editor4=Eleanor Robson |editor4-link=Eleanor Robson |title=The History of Mathematical Tables|publisher=Oxford University Press|date=2003|isbn=978-0-19-850841-0|title-link= The History of Mathematical Tables}}{{cite journal |url = http://www.rutherfordjournal.org/article010105.html |title = The User-friendly Typewriter |author = Martin Campbell-Kelly |date=December 2005 | journal = The Rutherford Journal | volume = 1}}[http://www.scientificamerican.com/author.cfm?id=2118 Martin Campbell-Kelly] (September 2009). [http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=origin-of-computing The Origin of Computing], Scientific American.{{Cite journal | last1 = Campbell-Kelly | first1 = M. | author-link = Martin Campbell-Kelly| doi = 10.1098/rsbm.2006.0030 | title = David John Wheeler. 9 February 1927 -- 13 December 2004: Elected FRS 1981 | journal = Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society | volume = 52 | pages = 437 | year = 2006 | doi-access = }}
He served on the editorial board of the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing journal. He is a committee member of the Computer Conservation Society, a Specialist Group of the British Computer Society, and is a Gresham College lecturer.{{cite web |title=Professor Martin Campbell-Kelly |url=https://www.gresham.ac.uk/professors-and-speakers/professor-martin-campbell-kelly/ |access-date=30 December 2021 |website=Gresham College}}[https://www.theguardian.com/profile/martin-campbell-kelly Martin Campbell-Kelly] his obituaries of prominent computer science figures in The Guardian
In 2011, Campbell-Kelly was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.{{Cite web |last=Wales |first=The Learned Society of |title=Martin Campbell-Kelly |url=https://www.learnedsociety.wales/fellow/martin-campbell-kelly/ |access-date=2023-08-29 |website=The Learned Society of Wales |language=en-US}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Martin_Campbell-Kelly Martin Campbell-Kelly] on ResearchGate
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