Corporate Body
Department of Computer Science (1976 - 1990s)
The University of Melbourne
- From
- 1976
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - To
- 1990s
- Functions
- Education and Computer Technology or Multimedia
- Location
- Melbourne, Victoria
Summary
The University of Melbourne's Department of Computer Science was established in 1976, when it took the place of the Department of Information Science. The Department was originally part of the Faculty of Science. During the early 1990s, the Department of Computer Science was moved to the newly created School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, within the Faculty of Engineering. In 1999 the Department was renamed the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering.
Related entries
Timeline
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
Superior
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
- Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-614289. Details
Ailie Smith
Created: 27 March 2002, Last modified: 4 May 2006