caption death_date death_place work_institution birth_place nationality field birth_date residence prizes article_title name alma_mater
john at his home in sydney in 2006 9 december 2010 sydney , nsw , australia ferranti , sydney university warwick , queensland , australia australian computer science 31 july 1921 australia , england officer of the order of australia john makepeace bennett
 john makepeace bennett university of queensland , university of cambridge
john makepeace bennett

emeritus professor john makepeace bennett ao ftse -lrb- 31 july 1921 -- 9 december 2010 -rrb- was an early australian computer scientist .
he was australia 's first professor of computer science and the founding president of the australian computer society .
his pioneering career included work on early computers such as edsac , ferranti mark 1 * and silliac , and spreading the word about the use of computers through computing courses and computing associations .
