Some of the material in this description of the institute is derived from a history of the School of Computer Science & Information System at that college.
Prominent graduates of the Institute include – Michael Newman, Professor of Information Systems, Manchester Business School.
A number of pioneering programmes were developed on the ICS Atlas including the CPL1 Compiler, A General Fourier Synthesis Program, A Computer Technique for Optimizing the Sites and Heights of Transmission Line Towers and even an early work in computing for English Change Ringing.
The main services were the first UK Arpanet node and Remote Job Entry (RJE) to the IBM 360/195[11] at the Rutherford Laboratory in Oxfordshire.
The RJE service using a Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-9 emulating an IBM 1130 (presumably a HASP workstation) was the first remote user of the 360/195,[13]