David Caminer was a British computer engineer who helped develop LEO, the Lyons Electronic Office, the world's first business computer. He has been called the world's first corporate electronic systems analyst and the world's first software engineer, and carried out the systems analysis for the world's first routine business computer job. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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John Pinkerton, Pioneers LEO I project colleagues at J. Lyons and Co.: Pinkerton as chief designer/engineer, Caminer leading systems analysis.
LEO (computer), Systems Verified en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEO_(computer): "The systems analysis was carried out by David Caminer." Written as associated-with rather than invented: a systems-analysis role, not the engineering design credited to Pinkerton.
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David Caminer was a British computer engineer who helped develop LEO, the Lyons Electronic Office, the world's first business computer. He has been called the world's first corporate electronic systems analyst and the world's first software engineer, and carried out the systems analysis for the world's first routine business computer job.
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26 June 1915
Infobox, Died
19 June 2008
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