Official Google Blog: Celebrating LEO, the world’s first business computer This year marks the 60th anniversary of LEO<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEO_%28computer%29>, the world’s first business computer—built by J.Lyons & Co<http://www.kzwp.com/lyons/index.htm>, a leading British food manufacturer at the time that also ran a famous chain of tea shops. Lyons management had long been keen to streamline their back-office operations. In 1947, two Lyons managers visited the U.S. to learn about the latest business processes, including whether the electronic computers they’d heard about during their wartime service, like ENIAC<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC>, might be useful. (At the time, the closer-to-home advances at Bletchley Park<http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/restoring-bletchley-park-birthplace-of.html>were still a well-kept military secret.) http://bit.ly/tkpU5d Source: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/celebrating-leo-worlds-first-business.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+blogspot/MKuf+(Official+Google+Blog) See if people are clicking on this link: http://bit.ly/tkpU5d+ Try the bitly.com sidebar to see who is talking about a page on the web: http://bitly.com/pages/sidebar List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance To unsubscribe from this list, click the below link. If not already present, place UNSUBSCRIBE RECMGMT-L or UNSUB RECMGMT-L in the body of the message. mailto:[log in to unmask]
