Category Archives: Contributions

(From Professor Dame Wendy Hall) I owe my career in computing to David He didn’t really remember me as an undergraduate mathematics student at Southampton. He taught me computing – Fortran programming to be exact. I hated it. Not because … Continue reading →

When I met David Barron, he was wearing pink socks. His explanation was typical of his sense of humour, and of our subsequent research, which centered on taking real measurements. We investigated whether drinking Cinzano made them pinker. By the … Continue reading →

In his Inaugural Lecture at University of Southampton in 1971 [PDF Transcript], Prof David W Barron (DWB) described himself as “only a second-generation computer man”, because those who taught him were the ones who had invented computers – he had … Continue reading →