I thought some might be interested in this note although it was only covered by the local press (see link below). Tony Sale was a driving force in the rebuilding of Colussus at Bletchely Park. I never met him or his team but I thought that it was fitting that SIGCIS acknowledged his work. Best Bernardo Bangor University (UK) Short obituary: http://www.miltonkeynes.co.uk/news/local/tributes_paid_to_a_colossus_of_a_ma... -- ================== Twitter @BatizLazo Technological Innovation in Retail Finance: International Historical Perspectives Edited by Bernardo Batiz-Lazo, J. Carles Maixé-Altés, Paul Thomes http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/books/details/9780415880671 Home page: http://www.bangor.ac.uk/business/staff/bernardo_batiz-lazo.en.php Working papers: http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba14.html
Thanks to Jonathan Aylen for pointing to a major obituary of Tony Sale in today's Financial Times: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/bb8df5c6-d489-11e0-a42b-00144feab49a.html#axzz1Wsl... On 3 September 2011 10:34, Bernardo Batiz-Lazo <bbatiz64@gmail.com> wrote:
I thought some might be interested in this note although it was only covered by the local press (see link below). Tony Sale was a driving force in the rebuilding of Colussus at Bletchely Park. I never met him or his team but I thought that it was fitting that SIGCIS acknowledged his work. Best Bernardo Bangor University (UK)
Short obituary:
http://www.miltonkeynes.co.uk/news/local/tributes_paid_to_a_colossus_of_a_ma...
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================== Twitter @BatizLazo
Technological Innovation in Retail Finance: International Historical Perspectives
Edited by Bernardo Batiz-Lazo, J. Carles Maixé-Altés, Paul Thomes
http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/books/details/9780415880671
Home page: http://www.bangor.ac.uk/business/staff/bernardo_batiz-lazo.en.php
Working papers: http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba14.html
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Colleagues It was a big item on the BBC's main evening news and also on their website. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14726045 There are also other pages there. Martin Campbell-Kelly also wrote an obituary for major national newspaper. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/technology-obituaries/8733814/Ton... Roger Johnson Programme Secretary BCS Computer Conservation Society -----Original Message----- From: members-bounces@sigcis.org [mailto:members-bounces@sigcis.org] On Behalf Of Bernardo Batiz-Lazo Sent: 03 September 2011 10:35 To: sigcis Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] Tony Sale dies at age 80 I thought some might be interested in this note although it was only covered by the local press (see link below). Tony Sale was a driving force in the rebuilding of Colussus at Bletchely Park. I never met him or his team but I thought that it was fitting that SIGCIS acknowledged his work. Best Bernardo Bangor University (UK) Short obituary: http://www.miltonkeynes.co.uk/news/local/tributes_paid_to_a_colossus_of_a_ma... -- ================== Twitter @BatizLazo Technological Innovation in Retail Finance: International Historical Perspectives Edited by Bernardo Batiz-Lazo, J. Carles Maixé-Altés, Paul Thomes http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/books/details/9780415880671 Home page: http://www.bangor.ac.uk/business/staff/bernardo_batiz-lazo.en.php Working papers: http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba14.html _______________________________________________ This email is relayed from members@sigcis.org, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. The list archives are at http://sigcis.org/pipermail/members/ and you can change your subscription options at http://sigcis.org/mailman/listinfo/members
Actually, my obit for Tony was in The Guardian, though it and the Daily Telegraph (anonymous) said much the same: http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2011/aug/31/tony-sale-obituary --Martin Martin Campbell-Kelly, Dept of Computer Science University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, U.K. voice: +44 24 7652 3193 fax: +44 24 7657 3024 email: M.Campbell-Kelly@warwick.ac.uk -----Original Message----- From: members-bounces@sigcis.org [mailto:members-bounces@sigcis.org] On Behalf Of Roger Johnson Sent: 03 September 2011 11:09 To: members@sigcis.org Subject: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Tony Sale dies at age 80 Colleagues It was a big item on the BBC's main evening news and also on their website. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14726045 There are also other pages there. Martin Campbell-Kelly also wrote an obituary for major national newspaper. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/technology-obituaries/8733814/Ton y-Sale.html Roger Johnson Programme Secretary BCS Computer Conservation Society -----Original Message----- From: members-bounces@sigcis.org [mailto:members-bounces@sigcis.org] On Behalf Of Bernardo Batiz-Lazo Sent: 03 September 2011 10:35 To: sigcis Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] Tony Sale dies at age 80 I thought some might be interested in this note although it was only covered by the local press (see link below). Tony Sale was a driving force in the rebuilding of Colussus at Bletchely Park. I never met him or his team but I thought that it was fitting that SIGCIS acknowledged his work. Best Bernardo Bangor University (UK) Short obituary: http://www.miltonkeynes.co.uk/news/local/tributes_paid_to_a_colossus_of_a_ma n_1_3019027 -- ================== Twitter @BatizLazo Technological Innovation in Retail Finance: International Historical Perspectives Edited by Bernardo Batiz-Lazo, J. Carles Maixé-Altés, Paul Thomes http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/books/details/9780415880671 Home page: http://www.bangor.ac.uk/business/staff/bernardo_batiz-lazo.en.php Working papers: http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba14.html _______________________________________________ This email is relayed from members@sigcis.org, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. The list archives are at http://sigcis.org/pipermail/members/ and you can change your subscription options at http://sigcis.org/mailman/listinfo/members _______________________________________________ This email is relayed from members@sigcis.org, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. The list archives are at http://sigcis.org/pipermail/members/ and you can change your subscription options at http://sigcis.org/mailman/listinfo/members
Hi Martin: You're too modest - yours is by far the better one! Cheers Brian On 3 Sep 2011, at 14:11, Martin Campbell-Kelly wrote:
Actually, my obit for Tony was in The Guardian, though it and the Daily Telegraph (anonymous) said much the same: http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2011/aug/31/tony-sale-obituary
--Martin
— Martin Campbell-Kelly, Dept of Computer Science University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, U.K. voice: +44 24 7652 3193 fax: +44 24 7657 3024 email: M.Campbell-Kelly@warwick.ac.uk
-----Original Message----- From: members-bounces@sigcis.org [mailto:members-bounces@sigcis.org] On Behalf Of Roger Johnson Sent: 03 September 2011 11:09 To: members@sigcis.org Subject: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Tony Sale dies at age 80
Colleagues
It was a big item on the BBC's main evening news and also on their website. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14726045 There are also other pages there.
Martin Campbell-Kelly also wrote an obituary for major national newspaper. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/technology-obituaries/8733814/Ton y-Sale.html
Roger Johnson Programme Secretary BCS Computer Conservation Society
-----Original Message----- From: members-bounces@sigcis.org [mailto:members-bounces@sigcis.org] On Behalf Of Bernardo Batiz-Lazo Sent: 03 September 2011 10:35 To: sigcis Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] Tony Sale dies at age 80
I thought some might be interested in this note although it was only covered by the local press (see link below). Tony Sale was a driving force in the rebuilding of Colussus at Bletchely Park. I never met him or his team but I thought that it was fitting that SIGCIS acknowledged his work. Best Bernardo Bangor University (UK)
Short obituary:
http://www.miltonkeynes.co.uk/news/local/tributes_paid_to_a_colossus_of_a_ma n_1_3019027
--
================== Twitter @BatizLazo
Technological Innovation in Retail Finance: International Historical Perspectives
Edited by Bernardo Batiz-Lazo, J. Carles Maixé-Altés, Paul Thomes
http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/books/details/9780415880671
Home page: http://www.bangor.ac.uk/business/staff/bernardo_batiz-lazo.en.php
Working papers: http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba14.html _______________________________________________ This email is relayed from members@sigcis.org, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. The list archives are at http://sigcis.org/pipermail/members/ and you can change your subscription options at http://sigcis.org/mailman/listinfo/members _______________________________________________ This email is relayed from members@sigcis.org, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. The list archives are at http://sigcis.org/pipermail/members/ and you can change your subscription options at http://sigcis.org/mailman/listinfo/members
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