Conway Berners-Lee

Conway Maurice Berners-Lee (19 September 1921 – 1 February 2019) was an English mathematician and computer scientist.

He worked as a member of the team that developed the Ferranti Mark 1, the world's first commercial stored program electronic computer.Conway and Mary Lee Berners-Lee, interviewed by Thomas Lean, 2010-2011, An Oral History of British Science, British Library Sound & Moving Image reference C1379/23 Audio and Transcript (at British Library only but brief Content summary available online).Although the Ferranti Mark 1was preceded by the BINAC and the Z4, BINIAC was not designed as a general purpose computer and it was never used for its intended purpose, and Konrad Zuse's Z4 was electro-mechanical not electronic 

He was born in Birmingham in 1921 and was the father of Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web.

He retired in 1986 and died on 1 February 2019 at the age of 97.

References

Other websites
 The National Archives: The Ferranti Collection including:
 Linear Programming "Arrives" By Dr. D.G. Prinz & Mr C.M Berners-Lee of Ferranti Ltd. (Paper)  1996.10/6/12/28/10  1957
 The Use of Electronic Computers in the Chemical Industry. By C.M. Berners-Lee  1996.10/6/12/28/28  1959
 The Use of Computers for Optimal Planning. By C.M. Berners-Lee  1996.10/6/12/28/29  1959
 Photograph with colleagues (under Ferranti and ICL)
 An interview with Conway Berners-Lee from the British Library http://www.bl.uk/voices-of-science/interviewees/conway-berners-lee 

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