Manchester University School of Computer Science |
Manchester University School of Computer Science is a department in the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences of the University of Manchester which teaches and researches Computer Science.
=History=
The school has its roots in the Computer Group of the Electrical Engineering Department at the Victoria University of Manchester. The Computer Group was established following Frederic Calland Williams move to the Electrical Engineering Department in 1946.
At its formation in 1964, the Department of Computer Science was the first such department in the United Kingdom.
The School was formed from the Department when the Victoria University of Manchester and UMIST merged to form the University of Manchester in 2004.
=Achievements=
Birthplace of the world s first stored program digital computer (the Small-Scale Experimental Machine), Manchester encoding, and the AMULET microprocessor series (asynchronous implementations of the ARM architecture computer architecture), amongst other things.
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