Brian Randell

Brian Randell

Brian Randell is a British computer scientist, specializing in research in software fault tolerance and dependability. He is also interested in, and a noted authority on, the early (prior to 1950) history of computers; he was a co-founder of the "IEEE Annals of the History of Computing" journal.

Randell's initial work, during 19571964 while he was employed at English Electric was on compilers; his work on Algol 60 is particularly known. He then joined IBM, where he worked at the T. J. Watson Research Center on high performance computer architectures and also on operating system design methodology.

Randell then became Professor of Computing Science at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. His work there, from 1971 onward, was in the area of software fault tolerance and dependability.

Major publications

* Brian Randell, L. J. Russell, "Algol 60 Implementation" (Academic Press, London, 1964)
* Brian Randell (editor), "The Origins of Digital Computers: Selected Papers" (Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, 1973, 1975, 1982)

External links

* [http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/people/brian.randell School of Computing Science — Brian Randell]
** [http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/people/brian.randell/publications Publications]
* [http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/brian.randell/ Personal home page]
** [http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/brian.randell/History/ History of Computing Bibliography]


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