Biographical entry Allen, Murray William (1927 - )

Summary

Murray Allen designed and built a Bendix D-12 vacuum tube, a version of which was used in the first Australian fully solid state computer. He was a Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering.

Details

Events

1949 - 1950

Career position - Engineer at AWA Ltd. (Amalgamated Wireless Australasia)

1951 - 1958

Career position - Engineer at the Mathematical Instruments Section of the Research Computer Design section of CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation)

1959 - 1964

Career position - Senior Lecturer in Electrical Engineering at the University of Adelaide

1964 -

Career position - Professor of Computer Science at the University of New South Wales

1964

Career position - Senior Research Scientist at the Control Data Corporation, USA

Published resources

Online Resources

• National Library of Australia, 'Allen, Murray W', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-559590. Details

See also

• Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/scripts/tia-dynindex.php3?EID=P003331. Details