Author: Horn, Chris
Number Of Pages: 188
Release Date: 27-02-2017
Details: John Byrne was the Professor of the Computer Science Department at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. In 1962, he raised financing and obtained the first computer for TCD, and one of the first computers into Ireland. During the decades from the 1960s to the noughties, he introduced many education innovations for computing in Ireland including a part-time evening degree; masters degrees; a degree grounded in both hardware and software; and degrees in software and European languages. Many of the graduates from the Department would go on to found the indigenous Irish computing industry and to build the multinational computing sector in Ireland. This book is a collection of interviews with him, and reminiscences from his family, friends, colleagues and students, of his life. It also serves as a background history to the extraordinary rise of the Irish computing sector.
EAN: 9781520696843
Languages: English
Binding: paperback
Item Condition: New