Bernard Meltzer
British computer scientist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Bernard Meltzer was a British computer scientist, who with Donald Michie was one of the main founders of research on artificial intelligence at the University of Edinburgh. Meltzer studied physics at the University of Cape Town with a bachelor's degree in 1934, and was briefly a physics demonstrator in Cape Town. He emigrated to Great Britain, where he worked for the Marconi Company and, after the start of the Second World War, for the Telecommunications Research Establishment conducting research on radar. In 1941 he enlisted in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve and from 1943 taught radar and electronics to military personnel at the University of Aberdeen. After the war he went into industry . In 1953 he received his doctorate from the University of London in mathematical physics with Reinhold Furth . In 1955 he became a lecturer and later a reader in the electrical engineering department of the University of Edinburgh, doing research in electronics . His research on ion propulsion resulted in an invitation from NASA to Stanford University in 1962.
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