Draft:Edward A. Newman
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Edward "Ted" Arthur Newman (born 27 April 1918, died 7 August 1993) was born in Walthamstow. He graduated from University College London in 1938 with a B.Sc. in Physics. He stayed on briefly for postgraduate research. In 1940, he moved to Masteradio, and the next year, 1941, to the EMI Research Laboratories. Here, he worked on television camera technology for the early BBC, and on the digital (pulsed) electronics of the H2S airborn radar system. In 1947, he joined the National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom), along with Donald Davies, where he helped develop Alan Turing’s ideas for general purpose stored-program computer, leading to the design of the Pilot ACE.[1]
Like Turing, he was a keen runner, and the two met regularly to train together. They also had a common interest in the possibilities for machine intelligence.[2]
His later work was on pattern recognition, particularly in the context of speech recognition and character recognition. He was also instrumental in the development and promotion of office automation, particular in government offices.[3]
In the early 1980s, he was appointed visiting professor at the Department of Computer Science of Westfield College London until just before the closure of the college in 1989, and gave occasional lectures during his time there.
References
[edit]- ^ IEEE Computer Society biography
- ^ A.Hodges (1992) "Alan Turing: the enigma", Vintage, London, UK, ISBN 0-09-911641-3, page 395
- ^ Biography available online written by Donald Davies
External links
[edit]- University College London blog on the part played by Newman on Pilot-ACE
- The Elmbridge Hundred biography by Alistair Grant
- Also see: Davies, Donald, “Edward Newman,” The London Times, Aug. 17, 1993.2