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Billy Dalziel of the Corby Heritage centre gave a presentation about Stewart and Lloyds and the LEO II installed at the Corby Steelworks. The presentation was on 05 May 2023 and can be viewed at the LEO Computer Society Website The presentation is rich in the industrial heritage of the UK and Corby in particular, with photos of the town and smokey steel works. Billy also tells the story of the eventual replacement of the LEO II, by an IBM 360, on the pretext that they needed to do it to handle decimalisation as LEO couldn’t.

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David Tresman Caminer Postgraduate Scholarship in Business Computing
The scholarship was set up to honour the achievements if David Caminer under the
aegis of The LEO Computers Society . The Scholarship is funded through the
generosity of the Association for Information Technology (AIT) and its Trustees, and
is valued at £5000 per annum. The scholarships will be available to students who have
demonstrated excellent academic potential. Applications are welcome from students who
have fulfilled the admission criteria and been offered a place to study for a postgraduate
degree based in the School of Engineering and Information Science. A student will only be entitled to one award during his/her period of study with Middlesex University. The
first students were selected in 2011. See http://www.scholarship–search.org.uk/grants/the-david-tresman-caminer-postgraduate-scholarship-in-businesscomputing-supported-by-the-leo-foundation-and-ait-trust-at-middlesex-university/hc_edufin.page_pls_user_sch_dets/16180339/220707/sch_id/58303/page.htm
The 2014 award winner Tope Ashiru writes:
“Receiving the Scholarship is mind blowing! It has restored me back on track and
reinvigorated my career aspirations. My academic progression almost took a dark turn in
the light of my father’s prolonged illness which eventually took his life. I had thought it
was all coming to a dramatic halt for me but the Scholarship came to the rescue! Now I
can focus on finishing with a first class.

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