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Needham was born in Birmingham, England, the only child of Phyllis Mary, née Baker ( c .1904–1976) and Leonard William Needham ( c .1905–1973), a university chemistry lecturer. [7] He attended Doncaster Grammar School for Boys in Doncaster (then in the West Riding) going on to St John's College, Cambridge in 1953, and graduating with a BA ...
Mar 6, 2003 · March 6, 2003. Roger M. Needham, a leading computer scientist who did pioneering work on security software, led Cambridge University's computer science laboratory for 15 years and started ...
Mar 10, 2003 · Roger Needham, who has died aged 68, helped keep Cambridge University at the forefront of computer research for more than 20 years, and set up Microsoft's first overseas research organisation ...
About. Roger M Needham, born 1935, was in computing at Cambridge since 1956. His 1961 PhD thesis was on the application of digital computers to problems of classification and grouping. He worked on a variety of key computing projects in security, operating systems, computer architecture (capability systems) and local area networks.
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Mar 8, 2003 · Roger Needham, 68, a professor of computer systems at Cambridge University who became the first head of Microsoft's new European research laboratory, died of cancer Feb. 28 in Cambridge, England.
Mar 4, 2003 · Roger Needham was born in 1935, educated at Doncaster Grammar School and won a scholarship to the University of Cambridge to study mathematics. Roger graduated from Cambridge in Mathematics and Philosophy in 1956, and then took the Diploma in Numerical Analysis and Automatic Computing in 1957. Roger married Karen Sparck Jones in 1958 when both ...
Mar 10, 2003 · Roger Needham, the executive director of Microsoft's Cambridge Research Lab, died at the end of February of an incurable cancer that had been diagnosed only a couple of months earlier.
