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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Further to the initial announcement, I notice that the Independent (a British newspaper) has now posted Martin Campbell-Kelly’s obituary notice for Wilkes at <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/maurice-wilkes-visionary-and-pioneering-doyen-of-british-computing-2147811.html">http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/maurice-wilkes-visionary-and-pioneering-doyen-of-british-computing-2147811.html</a>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Also, thanks to Paul McJones for pointing out that at least one computer project leader from the 1940s is, as far as we know, still alive: Harry Huskey. Huskey worked on ENIAC and led development of SWAC a few years later. Bill Aspray did an oral history interview with him in 2006. <a href="http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/Oral_History/Huskey_Harry/Huskey.oral_history.2006.102657983.pdf">http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/Oral_History/Huskey_Harry/Huskey.oral_history.2006.102657983.pdf</a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Tom Haigh<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>