School of Computer Science, University of Manchester

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The School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester is the academic department providing the focus for teaching and research in Computer Science. The school has its roots in the Computer Group of the Electrical Engineering Department at the Victoria University of Manchester. The Computer Group was established following Freddie Williams' move to the Electrical Engineering Department in 1946. At its formation in 1964, the Department of Computer Science was the first such department in the United Kingdom. The School was formed from the Department when the Victoria University of Manchester and UMIST merged to form the University of Manchester in 2004.

[edit] Achievements

The School/Department is notable for the following achievements:

The world's first stored program digital computer (the Small-Scale Experimental Machine)
Virtual memory using paging (see Atlas Computer)
Manchester encoding
The AMULET microprocessor series (asynchronous implementations of the ARM computer architecture)

[edit] Notable alumni and staff

Steve Furber, current ICL Professor of Computer Engineering
Carole Goble, current Professor of Computer Science - Information Management
Tom Kilburn, first head of the Department of Computer Science
Alan Rector, current Professor of Medical Informatics
Alan Turing was a Reader in the Mathematics Department and was deputy director of the computing laboratory.
Freddie Williams