John Byrne (computer scientist)

[2] He went on to work in Birmingham with Septimus Willis, and then study for a Diploma in Concrete Technology at Imperial College London.

[3] He completed his PhD at TCD under the supervision of Prof William Wright, the head of the School of Engineering.

[1] His 1961 doctoral thesis was a study in mathematically complex solutions for torsional stresses in hollow reinforced concrete beams.

[4] Byrne proposed TCD's first evening course in computer programming and systems analysis which ran for two nights a week.

[7] When the internet was deployed in Ireland for the first time on 17 June 1991 by the Trinity campus company, IEunet, Byrne was a director.

[8] In 2005, Byrne supervised the masters' students who created the first digitised copy of the Library of Trinity College's 1872 Printed Catalogue.