Trevor Pearcey, the Glossary
Trevor Pearcey (5 March 1919 – 27 January 1998) was a British-born Australian scientist, who created CSIRAC, one of the first stored-program electronic computers in the world.[1]
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15 relations: CSIRAC, Doctor of Science, Imperial College London, Information and communications technology, Mathematics, Melbourne, Mornington Peninsula, Pearcey Foundation, Pearcey integral, Physics, Stored-program computer, Trevor Pearcey, United Kingdom, University of Melbourne, Woolwich.
CSIRAC
CSIRAC (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Automatic Computer), originally known as CSIR Mk 1, was Australia's first digital computer, and the fifth stored program computer in the world.
Doctor of Science
A Doctor of Science (Scientiae Doctor; most commonly abbreviated DSc or ScD) is a science doctorate awarded in a number of countries throughout the world.
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Imperial College London
Imperial College London (Imperial) is a public research university in London, England.
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Information and communications technology
Information and communications technology (ICT) is an extensional term for information technology (IT) that stresses the role of unified communications and the integration of telecommunications (telephone lines and wireless signals) and computers, as well as necessary enterprise software, middleware, storage and audiovisual, that enable users to access, store, transmit, understand and manipulate information.
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Mathematics
Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes abstract objects, methods, theories and theorems that are developed and proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself.
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Melbourne
Melbourne (Boonwurrung/Narrm or Naarm) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in Australia, after Sydney.
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Mornington Peninsula
The Mornington Peninsula is a peninsula located south of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
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Pearcey Foundation
The Pearcey Foundation is an Australian organisation dedicated to raising the profile of the Australian information technology and telecommunications industry.
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Pearcey integral
In mathematics, the Pearcey integral is defined as The Pearcey integral is a class of canonical diffraction integrals, often used in wave propagation and optical diffraction problems The first numerical evaluation of this integral was performed by Trevor Pearcey using the quadrature formula.
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Physics
Physics is the natural science of matter, involving the study of matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force.
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Stored-program computer
A stored-program computer is a computer that stores program instructions in electronically or optically accessible memory.
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Trevor Pearcey
Trevor Pearcey (5 March 1919 – 27 January 1998) was a British-born Australian scientist, who created CSIRAC, one of the first stored-program electronic computers in the world. Trevor Pearcey and Trevor Pearcey are 20th-century English mathematicians, Australian computer scientists, Australian scientist stubs, British emigrants to Australia and scientists from Melbourne.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.
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University of Melbourne
The University of Melbourne (also colloquially known as Melbourne University) is a public research university located in Melbourne, Australia.
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Woolwich
Woolwich is a town in southeast London, England, within the Royal Borough of Greenwich.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Pearcey
Also known as Pearcey Award, Pearcey Medal, The Pearcey Foundation.