[ih] A name from the past

[Brian E Carpenter]

On 27-Apr-22 13:26, Noel Chiappa via Internet-history wrote:
>      > an article "Data Communications at the NPL (1965-1975)" in the 'Annals
>      > of the History of Computing' (as it was then; Vol 9, No 3/4, if anyone
>      > wants to look at it)

...
> Finally, in the "Acknowledgements" section, we find listed a "B. E.
> Carpenter", who I rather suspect is our Brian Carpenter! The paper came out
> in 1988, and Brian had done his and Doran's book on "Turing's ACE Report" in
> 1986, and it involved close interaction with NPL; its Acknowledgements
> section thanks Martin Campbell-Kelly, the author of the NPL history paper.

Yes, that would be me. I'm not sure what I contributed except reviewing
a draft. Martin essentially commissioned the ACE book for the Charles
Babbage Institute (and his wife retyped some of Turing's writing
from an almost illegible carbon copy). I was blissfully ignorant of
NPL's original network, despite having visited Donald Davies' lab
as a grad student for other reasons.

     Brian