From: steve jenkin <sjenkin@canb.auug.org.au>
To: TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Role of Unix in Australian Accounting research: Ball & Brown, founding AGSM
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2024 07:51:30 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FA76B45-E3C7-4454-9078-DE21F89BAE25@canb.auug.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F4845957-CC41-4F92-859F-51DC68ED8A15@canb.auug.org.au>
Correction:
they’d not done any computing at UNSW.
Laurence Fisher at U Chicago ‘created the data base’.
UNSW Faculty of Commerce / Accounting created the first "Information Systems” department & courses in 1974 under Cyril Brooks.
AGSM at UNSW was created in 1976, with Ball & Brown working together again.
On 12 Feb 2024, at 04:04, Ball, Ray wrote:
Thanks for your interest.
Neither Phil nor I had any exposure to computing at UNSW.
With one exception we both started our programming with Fortran on the U Chicago 7094 (with job flows scheduled by a 7040).
The exception is that in the summer of 1966, before leaving for Chicago, I interned at IBM in Sydney working on a 360, but that was pretty simple stuff.
> On 10 Feb 2024, at 17:47, steve jenkin <sjenkin@canb.auug.org.au> wrote:
>
>
> <snip>
>
> While Ball & Brown studied in Faculty of Commerce, they obviously had enough of a grounding
> in ‘computing’ and data collection / handling / analysis to set the stage for their 1968 paper.
>
> In 1971, Fortran IV was taught to first year students in Science, using John M Blatt’s (of UNSW) textbook.
> It’s not unreasonable that Finance & Accounting had courses or training in Computing 5 years before that.
>
> Within 10 years, they were both back at UNSW, running AGSM, teaching & using Digital research methods,
> based solidly on Unix…
>
> cheers
> steve
>
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