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Folk Fae Fife The Fife Science Festival |
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Compared to other areas of science and technology, computer science is a relatively new discipline, although computational science has origins in eighteenth-century jacquard textile looms. Cards were punched to “compute” the design and used on a loom to determine where threads would be placed in the fabric. A similar punch card system was used in the first computer. At the University of St Andrews, computer science had been incorporated into the mathematics department until the 1980s. Since then it has been the home of three computer scientists who have contributed significantly to the field and to its study in Fife and beyond. |
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Jacquard loom punch cards. Photo appears courtesy of Dr Nick Gessler, Duke University. The card is in the Berlin Technological Museum collection. |
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Professor A. Jack Cole |
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· University of St Andrews lecturer |
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· Living, University of St Andrews lecturer |
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http://www.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~ifs/ Specialist in software engineering and the author of some of the most used textbooks on the subject. |
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Ian Sommerville |
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Ron Morrison |
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· Living, University of St Andrews, Head of Computer Science |
