School of Computer Science, University of Manchester

School of Computer Science
The School of Computer Science is based in the Kilburn Building on Oxford Road
Established	2004 from the Department of Computer Science at the Victoria University of Manchester during merger with UMIST
Location	Manchester, United Kingdom Coordinates: 53°28′03″N 2°14′03″W / 53.4676°N 2.2343°W / 53.4676; -2.2343
Campus	Oxford Road
Former names	Computer Group (until 1964), Department of Computer Science (1964-2004)
Affiliations	Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Manchester
Website	www.cs.man.ac.uk

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.

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)

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

References

• History of the School of Computer Science

External links

• University of Manchester, School of Computer Science
• The University of Manchester celebrates the Birth of the Modern Computer