GB 0100 KCLCA K/PP55 - MEEK, Brian Lawrence (1934-1997)

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GB 0100 KCLCA K/PP55 Created [1955-1997] Collection (fonds) 15 boxes or 0.15m3 Meek , Brian Lawrence , 1934-1997 , computer scientist
Born 7 Oct 1934; educated at Northgate Grammar School for Boys, Ipswich, 1945-1953, and King's College London, 1953-1956; BSc in Mathematics, 1956; MSc, 1959; Tutorial Student, Mathematics Department, King's College London, 1957-1958; Assistant Lecturer, 1958-1961; Lecturer, Leeds University, 1961; Head of Computing Unit at Queen Elizabeth College London, at the time of its merger with King's College London in 1985; subsequently Deputy Director of the Computing Department at King's College London; active on international computing standards bodies; died 11 July 1997.

Publications: Algol by problems (McGraw-Hill, London, 1971); Using computers with Simon Fairthorne, (Ellis Horwood, Chichester, 1977); Fortran, PL/1 and the Algols (Macmillan, London, 1978); editor of Guide to good programming practice with P M Heath, (Ellis Horwood, Chichester, c1980); editor of Programming language standardisation with I D Hill, (Ellis Horwood, Chichester, and Halsted Press, New York, 1980); Guides to computing standards: No.15 Programming languages (1981); general editor of User needs in information technology standards with C D Evans and R S Walker, (Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford, 1993).

Correspondence, reports, agendas and minutes of the International Standards Organisation (ISO), 1977-1997, mainly on information processing systems and programming languages; correspondence and papers concerning the British Standards Institution, the 'Allvey Project', IBM Rauf Book, and the British Computer Society; past examination papers for BSc, 1955-1970, 1980-1987; computer programming publications; Meek's articles on computers and programming; notes on the Single Transferable Vote in elections; pamphlets on automated voting systems; photographs.

Grouped according to International Standards, British Standards, examination papers, publications, notes on various analyses, and photographs.

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services, King's College, London.
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Detailed handlist available in hard copy in the College Archives reading room.

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Correspondence, reports, agendas and minutes of the International Standards Organisation (ISO), 1977-1997, mainly on information processing systems and programming languages; correspondence and papers concerning the British Standards Institution, the 'Allvey Project', IBM Rauf Book, and the British Computer Society; past examination papers for BSc, 1955-1970, 1980-1987; computer programming publications; Meek's articles on computers and programming; notes on the Single Transferable Vote in elections; pamphlets on automated voting systems; photographs.

Grouped according to International Standards, British Standards, examination papers, publications, notes on various analyses, and photographs.

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services, King's College, London.

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English

Detailed handlist available in hard copy in the College Archives reading room.

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