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Computing Departments at the University of Melbourne, a brief history 1956-1996
Image: Computation laboratory original door, University of Melbourne, 1956 - 64
Source: Museum Victoria
The Computation Department of the University of Melbourne was formally established in 1962. Its former name was the Computation Laboratory. The Laboratory was opened on the 14th June 1956.
The Department, which operated and maintained CSIRAC, provided a computing service to the University in addition to the academic functions of research and teaching.
In 1969 these functions were separated. The computing service was transferred to the newly created Computer Centre and the academic functions were continued in the Department of Information Science within the Science Faculty. Following the appointment of the foundation professor in 1975 the department was renamed the Department of Computer Science. The department transferred to the Faculty of Engineering in 1989 and became the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering in 2000.
The archival material retained when CSIRAC was decommissioned by the Computation Department in 1964 was preserved within the academic Department. The Department of Computer Science was instrumental in 1996 in establishing the project which has resulted in the collection and cataloguing of documents, artefacts and images relating to the CSIR Mk1 (CSIRAC).
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Correspondence - CSIRAC Computer, Miscellaneous, 1956-1987
File containing correspondence mainly from the files of Frank Hirst, Officer in Charge, Computation Laboratory, University of Melbourne. It includes correspondence and other documents r ...
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Published Papers & Reports - CSIRAC Computer, Mercury Delay Line Memory, 1954
Three copies of a paper by RD Ryan entitled 'Mercury Delay Line Memory CSIRO Computer'. The paper was published by the CSIRO Division of Radiophysics, Sydney in June 1954. It describes ...
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Correspondence - CSIRAC Computer, Staffing, Geoff Hill, 1955-1957
Correspondence relating to the possible secondment of GW Hill from the CSIRO to the University computer project. The correspondence falls into two groups. The first group of letters, f ...
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Correspondence - CSIRAC Computer, Staffing, Senior Lecturer Numerical Analysis & Computati ...
Correspondence related to the appointment of mathematicians to the positions of Senior Lecturer in Numerical Analysis and Computational Assistant at the Computational Laboratory of the ...
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Correspondence - CSIRAC Computer, Staffing, EH Palfreyman, 1955-1957
Correspondence between Cherry and others, and a memo, relating to the appointment of EH Palfreyman to the CSIRAC project. The file also contains a letter to Cherry from Palfreyman writt ...
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Correspondence - CSIRAC Computer, Staffing, Mr Maggs, 1956
Correspondence related to the appointment of a skilled constructon and maintenance person for the University's Computer Project. This includes a letter from Cherry to GW Paton, the Vice ...
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Correspondence, Reports, Manuals - CSIRAC Computer,"Non CSIRAC", NSW University of Technol ...
Letters to Thomas Cherry from RE Vowels, Professor of Electrical Engineering at the New South Wales University of Technology, regarding the installation of an EEC `DEUCE' computer. Cor ...
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Notes & Correspondence - CSIRAC Computer, Short Training Courses, 1955-1957
This file contains correspondence and notes relating to short computer training courses being held by the University of Melbourne. There are letters of acceptance, providing names of pa ...
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Correspondence - CSIRAC Computer, Staffing, Dr EO Hercus & Mrs Findler, 1957
Correspondence relating to the appointment of Dr EO Hercus and of Mrs Findler to the Computation Laboratory. Correspondence details: 13/3/57 A.B.P. Amies to L.H. Martin Approval of app ...
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Correspondence & Agenda - CSIRAC Computer,"Non CSIRAC", Conferences on Computing, 1956-195 ...
Agenda and correspondence relating to a Conference on Data Processing and Automatic Computing Machines, organised by the Commonwealth Department of Supply at the Weapons Research Establ ...
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