World’s first systems analyst has died
By Nicole Kobie in Editorial
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The man who implemented the first business computer - effectively, the first corporate electronic systems analyst - died in London earlier this month.
I have to admit, I couldn’t have named him before stumbling across his obit online earlier today. And I never would have expected such a person to be a British employee at a tea company.
David Caminer, who died at 92 on 19 June, was the developer of a computer called LEO, which automated back-end processes for J. Lyons & Company, a tea company which also catered events and ran hotels.
The first program which ran on the Lyons Electronic Office - back in November 1951 - worked out costs, prices and margins for baked goods. According to the New York Times: “At that moment, Lyons was years ahead of IBM and the other computer giants that eventually overtook it.”
In that newspaper, Paul Ceruzzi, a historian at the American National Air and Space Museum, said:
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