Emeritus Professor John Makepeace Bennett AO, FTSE, was an early computer scientist. His pioneering career included work on early computers such as EDSAC, Ferranti Mark 1* and SILLIAC, and spreading the word about the use of computers through computing courses and computing associations.
He was born on 31 July 1921 in Warwick, Queensland. After leaving The Southport School, he went to the University of Queensland to study civil engineering.
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Emeritus Professor John Makepeace Bennett AO, FTSE, was an early computer scientist. His pioneering career included work on early computers such as EDSAC, Ferranti Mark 1* and SILLIAC, and spreading the word about the use of computers through computing courses and computing associations.
He was born on 31 July 1921 in Warwick, Queensland. After leaving The Southport School, he went to the University of Queensland to study civil engineering.
From 1942 until 1946 (during WWII), he served in the RAAF. He worked on a radar unit on the Wessel Islands and later worked in airfield construction. He then returned to the University of Queensland to study electrical and mechanical engineering and mathematics.
In 1947 he went to Cambridge University to become Maurice Vincent Wilkes' first research assistant as part of the team working to build EDSAC. This was the world's first practical stored program electronic computer, and the world's first computer in regular operation from 1949. He used...
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