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<div class="">Today’s Guardian has an excellent obituary for George Felton by Martin Campbell-Kelly:</div>
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<div class="">George Felton obituary</div>
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<div class="">Pioneering computer scientist who became the UK’s foremost software authority</div>
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<div class="">George Felton, who has died aged 98, was the doyen of computer-industry software designers. In the early 1950s the term “software” had not been invented, and for most computer manufacturers responsibility stopped with delivering the hardware –
programming the computer was the customer’s problem. Felton helped change that perception.</div>
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<div class="">He managed, and largely implemented, the programming scheme for the Ferranti Pegasus computer, first delivered in 1956. It was a programming regimen of unprecedented completeness that made life a great deal easier for computer users. He went on
to become the UK computer industry’s foremost software authority.</div>
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<div class="">Cheers</div>
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<div class="">Brian Randell</div>
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<div class="">School of Computing, Newcastle University, 1 Science Square, </div>
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<div class="">EMAIL = <a href="mailto:Brian.Randell@ncl.ac.uk" class="">Brian.Randell@ncl.ac.uk</a> PHONE = +44 191 208 7923</div>
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