Ernest Joseph Kaye
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Ernest Joseph Kaye Ernest Kaye joined John Pinkerton as his assistant in 1949 in the design of LEO I and later LEO II, having been recruited as an electronic engineer from GEC.
He later took on the role of procurement officer for the engineering side of LEO. He retired in 1968 to the family firm of renting material for television and theatre productions.
See also page 205 for a biographical sketch in Peter Bird’s LEO: The First Business Computer.
To view a video about LEO in which Ernest Kaye also appears, click on the following link :
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Jamillah Knowles' BBC podcast Outriders featured Ernest Kaye in November 2011: External Link : Click Here >>>
Many Obituaries were published on Ernest Kaye's death in 2012:
Wall Street Journal:
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The Next Web (written by the BBC's Jamillah Knowles): External Link : Click Here >>>
The Guardian (written by Frank Land): External Link : Click Here >>>
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