David Caminer:

David Caminer1915 – 2008 joined Lyons before World War II as a Management Trainee, his career was interrupted by National Service, losing a leg in the battlefields of North Africa, before returning to Lyons and being appointed head of the Systems Research Office ,followed by taking a prominent and leading role in the establishment of LEO.  Described by John Aris as the inventor of Systems Analysis, his methodological approach was a key factor in the success of LEO. His ambition, following his retirement was to ensure that the story of LEO would take its proper place in the history of computing.  He helped fulfil that ambition by his writing and the establishment of the LEO Foundation.   See also a biographical sketch on page201 of Peter Bird’s LEO: the World’s First Business Computer, and his personal profile is listed in the Oxforf Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB) written by Georgina Ferry and published online in 2009.

Obituaries and Tributes Oxford Dictionary of National Biography – ODNB ,(Georgina Ferry) Financial Times (Alan Cane)  Switched .com  (Will Safer)
The Independent (Martin Campbell-Kelly)Booksellers Association (Martyn Daniels)
The Daily TelegraphIT History Society
The TimesScotts news.blogspot.com
The Guardian (Frank Land)BBC Radio 4 ‘Last Word’
The Jewish ChronicleComputing (Iain Thomson)
The Richmond and Twickenham TimesTwinings Tea
The Liverpool Daily PostCentaurs Rugby Club
The New York Times (Douglas Martin)Electronicsinfoline.com
The Atlanta Journal ConstitutionComputeach
The Chronicle Herald, Halifax, Nova ScotiaComputing- Letters to the Editor (R.Sarson)
The Day, ConnecticutWikipedia
The LEO Society website (Frank Land)The Test Bed- Personal Computer World
Vnunet.com (Iain Thomson, San Francisco)Fujitsu – ICL pensioners (Frank Land)
Star Tribune, Minneapolis-St PaulChicago Tribune
Ameblo, JapanThe Eponymous Pickle (Franz Dill )
Guardian BlogsFuneral piece (Hilary Caminer)
Gadsden Times 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2188963/David-Caminer.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Caminer

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/technology/29caminer.html

http://boingboing.net/2008/06/29/computer-pioneer-and.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jul/11/1

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/technology/29caminer.html

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