Ewan Stafford Page

Ewan Stafford Page (born 17 August 1928) is a British academic and computer scientist, and former vice-chancellor of the University of Reading.

Ewan Page was educated at Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys in Leicester and at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he graduated MA and PhD and won the Rayleigh Prize.

[1] After a period of National Service, he was a research student in the field of statistics at the University of Cambridge between 1951 and 1954, at a time when the EDSAC computer was new.

In 1957, he was appointed as director of the Durham University's Computing Laboratory, located at King's College, Newcastle.

In 1976, when the then incumbent died unexpectedly, he served as acting vice-chancellor of Newcastle University.