Person

Hinckfuss, Ian Charles (1932 - 1997)

Born: 1932
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Died: 21 October 1997
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Occupation: Electrical engineer

Summary

Ian Hinckfuss worked for Weapons Research Establishment. During the 1950s he was involved in designing a special machine to predict impact positions of missiles while in flight. The design of this machine, the ATROPOS (or DIP), was a transistorised version of the TREAC, provided with a special built-in square root operation which was needed to achieve the very high execution speed to predict at a rate of 5 times per second.

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Chronology

1957: Career event - Visited the United Kingdom, when Trevor Pearcey was at the Radar Research Establishment on TREAC

Published resources

Resources

'Hinckfuss, I. C.', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1477130. Details

Resource Sections

Australian Computer Society, 'Chapter 9 : Australian made, Australian designed', in ACS Heritage Project, 2015, https://50years.acs.org.au/heritage-projects/acs-heritage-project--chapter-9.html. Details

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