doctoral_advisor thesis_year work_institution birth_place thesis_title nationality fields birth_date known_for image article_title name alma_mater
maurice wilkes 1963 university educational and research association -lrb- now janet -rrb- cambridge crystallographic of data centre -lrb- ccdc -rrb- clare college , cambridge the cambridge national museum of computing -lrb- tnmoc -rrb- british computer society computing computer conservation society service computer laboratory united kingdom halifax , yorkshire , england automatic programming for digital computers british computer science 14 september 1937 edsac of university of cambridge computing service -lrb- 23 years -rrb- 2 uk government committees -lrb- inc. advisor to prime minister -rrb- autocode granta backbone network establishment of the united kingdom education and cpl research networking association -lrb- ukerna -rrb- president , british computer titan society -lrb- 1999 -rrb- chairman , computer conservation society -lrb- multiple 2007 -rrb- edsac replica project access system director dr david hartley.png david hartley -lrb- computer scientist -rrb-
 dr david hartley clare college , cambridge
david hartley -lrb- computer scientist -rrb-

david fielding hartley fbcs -lrb- born 14 september 1937 -rrb- is a computer scientist and fellow of clare college , cambridge .
he was director of the university of cambridge computing service from 1970 -- 1994 , chief executive of united kingdom joint academic network -lrb- janet -rrb- 1994 -- 1997 , and executive director of cambridge crystallographic data centre -lrb- ccdc -rrb- 1997 -- 2002 .
he is now much involved with the national museum of computing .
he was involved in the development of the programming language cpl , whose influence can be traced on to c , and c++ .
he was president of the british computer society from 1999 to 2000 and chairman of the computer conservation society from 2007 to 2011 .
