John Makepeace Bennett, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Place of Birth: Warwick, Queensland, Australia
About John Makepeace Bennett
- Emeritus Professor John Makepeace Bennett AO FTSE (31 July 1921 – 9 December 2010) was an early Australian computer scientist.
- He was Australia's first professor of computer science and the founding president of the Australian Computer Society.
- His pioneering career included work on early computers such as EDSAC, Ferranti Mark 1* and SILLIAC, and spreading the word about the use of computers through computing courses and computing associations.
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