Foreword re C. S. Wallace

@article{Dowe2008ForewordRC,
  title={Foreword re C. S. Wallace},
  author={David L. Dowe},
  journal={Comput. J.},
  year={2008},
  volume={51},
  pages={523-560},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:5387092}
}
Chris Wallace completed his tertiary education in 1959 with a Ph.D. in nuclear physics, on cosmic ray showers, and was sent almost immediately to the University of Illinois to copy the design of ILLIAC II, a duplicate of which was to be built at Sydney.
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