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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.scholarshipsearch.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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2016 Middlesex University David Tresman Caminer PhD Scholarship.
The research leading to a PhD will investigate the role of LEO in the evolution of
business computing with special emphasis on the philosophy which motivated a
company in the food industry to build the world’s first business computer. The
project supervisor is Dr Giuseppe Primiero of the Computer Science
Department. The scholarship is funded by a grant from the AIT. See
http://www.mdx.ac.uk/news/2016/03/first-ever-business-computer-to-be-researched-at-middlesex-university and http://www.mdx.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate-research-degrees/research-studentships/david-tresman-caminer-studentship-for-the-history-of-computing and tinyurl.com/j3oh6ow

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LEO Computer Society Zoom Forum (Winter 2020), A new initiative during the
pandemic to establish a forum where members of LCS could meet via Zoom to reminisce
and discuss activities furthering the aims of the Society and the Lottery Heritage Fund
LEO project commenced in November 2020. Vince Bodsworth has posted all the mp4
videos of all four Fora held on the LCS Website.

https://www.leo-computers.org.uk/members/
These are 7 videos: Zoom 1, Zoom 2 Plenary, Zoom 2 Breakout Room 1 (Daines), Zoom
2 Breakout Room 2 First Half (Paschoud),Zoom 2 Breakout Room 2 Second
Half (Paschoud), 3rd Forum, 4th Forum

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Corby and the Electronic Brain

Exhibition Starts, Saturday 17th July 2021 and finishes on Saturday 6th November 2021
Corby Heritage Centre
You may think Corby is not the place to have connections with computer heritage but you
would be wrong. From the LEO II computer at Stewarts and Lloyds, the Commodore 64 and
to the present day with the Raspberry PI distributed by RS Components, Corby’s links with
computers span very nearly 60 years.
Visit the LEO II exhibition and delve into Corby’s computer heritage.
Venue Address

Corby Heritage Centre
75—77 High Street,
Corby, Northamptonshire,
NN17 1UU
For more information contact;
Billy Dalziel on 01536 464284 or 07500 066319
E-mail: billy.dalziel@northnorthants.gov.uk

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LEO Foundation. Established by David Tresman Caminer to promote the memory of
LEO and use revenue from the publication of the McGraw-Hill published books on the
LEO story to that end. The Foundation organised the 50th anniversary conference of the
first LEO application at the London Guildhall with sponsorship from the City of London
and the Wall Street Journal. The papers presented at the conference were subsequently
published by the Journal of Strategic Information Systems in a special edition edited by
Professor Robert Galliers. Members of the Foundation included Peter Hermon (treasurer),
Colin Tully, John Aris and Frank and Ralph Land. Subsequently, after the death of David
Caminer, aged 92, the Foundation was merged with the LEO Computers Society.

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