Unsung heroes in support services
Salford (1964 - 1968)
John Whittaker for starting me off on Algol
Computer Services for allowing access to the KDF9 (despite objections from the Maths Dept)
Birmingham (1968 - 1970)
Nona Newman/Kathy Lang (Senior Programmer responsible for SPSS)
LSE (1970 - 1976)
Peter Wakeford (Head of Computer Services: author of SDTAB and MUTOS)
UK Data Archive, Essex (1970 to date: now UK Data Service)
Susan Cadogan (who always answers emails and quietly moves things along)
Rowan Currie
Karen Dennison
Jack Kneeshaw
Denise Lievesley (Director who turned it round and made it what it is today)
Eric Roughley
Kathy Sayer
Eric Tanenbaum (obituary note)
Marcia Taylor
Polytechnic of North London (1976 - 1992)
Beverley Rowe (Head of Computer Services: went on to found the Association for Survey Computing)
Peter Jeffreys (Head of Computer Services after Beverley Rowe)
Maureen Ashman (Senior Programmer responsible for SPSS)
Doreen Burton and her staff in data-prep
Computer operators (ICL1900, DEC-10, Vax)
Couriers willing to make special deliveries between campuses
Computer technicians for prioritising inter-campus links
France
Where would I be without Terry Blom, fellow ex-pat early retiree, neighbour, computer wizard extra-ordinaire?
Gone to live in California, but still in touch.
SPSS gurus
(unstinting in their time and technical advice via the SPSS-X list)
Jon Peck (Retired Senior Software Engineer, IBM-SPSS)
Bruce Weaver (Cognitive Psychology, Lakehead University, Canada)
David Marso (LinkedIn profile)
Jignesh Sutar (LinkedIn profile)
Andy Wheeler (Blog site on SPSS)
Vi-Ann Beadle (Facebook profile: worked with Norman Nie for many years, Principal User Interface designer)
John Whittaker for starting me off on Algol
Computer Services for allowing access to the KDF9 (despite objections from the Maths Dept)
Birmingham (1968 - 1970)
Nona Newman/Kathy Lang (Senior Programmer responsible for SPSS)
LSE (1970 - 1976)
Peter Wakeford (Head of Computer Services: author of SDTAB and MUTOS)
UK Data Archive, Essex (1970 to date: now UK Data Service)
Susan Cadogan (who always answers emails and quietly moves things along)
Rowan Currie
Karen Dennison
Jack Kneeshaw
Denise Lievesley (Director who turned it round and made it what it is today)
Eric Roughley
Kathy Sayer
Eric Tanenbaum (obituary note)
Marcia Taylor
Polytechnic of North London (1976 - 1992)
Beverley Rowe (Head of Computer Services: went on to found the Association for Survey Computing)
Peter Jeffreys (Head of Computer Services after Beverley Rowe)
Maureen Ashman (Senior Programmer responsible for SPSS)
Doreen Burton and her staff in data-prep
Computer operators (ICL1900, DEC-10, Vax)
Couriers willing to make special deliveries between campuses
Computer technicians for prioritising inter-campus links
France
Where would I be without Terry Blom, fellow ex-pat early retiree, neighbour, computer wizard extra-ordinaire?
Gone to live in California, but still in touch.
SPSS gurus
(unstinting in their time and technical advice via the SPSS-X list)
Jon Peck (Retired Senior Software Engineer, IBM-SPSS)
Bruce Weaver (Cognitive Psychology, Lakehead University, Canada)
David Marso (LinkedIn profile)
Jignesh Sutar (LinkedIn profile)
Andy Wheeler (Blog site on SPSS)
Vi-Ann Beadle (Facebook profile: worked with Norman Nie for many years, Principal User Interface designer)