A001851 revised AU-VU:EOAS Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation

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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Corporate Body created 2002-03-27 human Ailie Smith updated 2026-03-03 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/A001851b.htm corporateBody Department of Computation The University of Melbourne AACR2 1964 1971 Start Place Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Location Melbourne, Victoria Education Computer Technology or Multimedia In 1964 the Computation Laboratory at the University of Melbourne was renamed the Department of Computation. The Department, part of the Faculty of Science, was again renamed in 1971, becoming the Department of Information Science. Computation Laboratory, The University of Melbourne (1955 - 1964) Hirst, Frank (1919 - 2017) Department of Information Science, The University of Melbourne (1971 - 1976) Faculty of Science, The University of Melbourne (1903 - )

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 'Department of Computation', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Department of Computation Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Resource Section: Frank Hirst, Computer Scientist & CSIRAC Specialist (1919-2017) Demand, David Frank Hirst, Computer Scientist & CSIRAC Specialist (1919-2017) Melbourne Museums Victoria 2007 Museum Victoria collections - articles Resource: CSIRAC archives guide to records Ron Bowles; Jurij Semkiwj; John Spencer; and Judith Hughes CSIRAC archives guide to records Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre 2002 Book: The Last of the First CSIRAC: Australia's First Computer McCann, Doug and Thorne, Peter The Last of the First CSIRAC: Australia's First Computer Melbourne Melbourne University Press 2000 Records of CSIRAC Museum Victoria Records of CSIRAC 1940 - 2002 Overview of the collection: Title : Records of CSIRAC Archives Date Range: 1940 - 2002 Creator : CSIRAC (1949 - 1971) Extent : 1.22 metres (1,134 items) Repository: Melbourne Museum, Museum of Victoria Abstract: CSIRAC, designed and built by CSIR scientists, was the first stored-memory electronic computer in Australia. 1.22 m, 1134 items