{"id":8071,"date":"2026-07-03T12:57:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T11:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.leo-computers.org.uk\/leopedia.org\/?p=8071"},"modified":"2026-07-03T13:01:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T12:01:48","slug":"frank-land-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leo-computers.org.uk\/leopedia.org\/frank-land-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Land:"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"8071\" class=\"elementor elementor-8071\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7d4c22e2 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"7d4c22e2\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-62003e9e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"62003e9e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><font color=\"#333333\" face=\"Open Sans, sans-serif\"><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);\">Frank and his twin brother Ralph were born in Berlin, Germany, in 1928 but fled Nazi Germany in 1939 and came to the UK. After an undergraduate degree at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Frank joined J. Lyons and began working on the world\u2019s first business computer, LEO \u2013 the Lyons Electronic Office . Later he established teaching on systems&nbsp;analysis and design at LSE. An extensive review of his life and achievement is published by the Journal of information Technology<\/span><\/font><br><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;See<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lse.ac.uk\/lsehistory\/2025\/11\/28\/frank-land-pioneer-professor-and-leo-historian\/\">&nbsp;<\/a>&nbsp; &nbsp;<a style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; text-align: var(--text-align);\" href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/page\/jin\/in-memory-of-frank-land\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sage Journals<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank and his twin brother Ralph were born in Berlin, Germany, in 1928 but fled Nazi Germany in 1939 and came to the UK. 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