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Synopsis
LEO Computers were a series of machines designed, developed, and manufactured for business applications between 1947–1968 by the British catering firm J. Lyons & Co. and its subsidiary LEO Computers Limited.
The presentation takes the LEO Computers as a case study for understanding the emergence of business computing, aiming to analyse both how the introduction of computers affected commercial enterprises and how computer design changed because of the new requirements of business data processing.
About the speaker
Elisabetta Mori holds a PhD in History and Philosophy of Computing at Middlesex University, London.
The focus of her academic research is the history of computing in Europe, with a special focus on the 1950s and 1960s. Her collaborations include the Archives of IT, UK, Software Heritage, France, the Free and Open Source Software Digital Archive, US, and the Museum of Computing Machinery, University of Pisa, Italy.
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