Corporate Body

Department of Computation (1964 - 1971)

The University of Melbourne

From
1964
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
To
1971
Functions
Education and Computer Technology or Multimedia
Location
Melbourne, Victoria

Summary

In 1964 the Computation Laboratory at the University of Melbourne was renamed the Department of Computation. The Department, part of the Faculty of Science, was again renamed in 1971, becoming the Department of Information Science.

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 1955 - 1964 Computation Laboratory
       1964 - 1971 Department of Computation
             1971 - 1976 Department of Information Science
                   1976 - 1990s Department of Computer Science
                         1999 - Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering

Archival resources

Museum Victoria

  • Records of CSIRAC, 1940 - 2002; Museum Victoria. Details

Published resources

Books

  • McCann, Doug and Thorne, Peter, The Last of the First CSIRAC: Australia's First Computer (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2000), 196 pp. Details

Resources

Resource Sections

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