• ThomasRushton - Friday, January 20, 2017 1:48 AM

    TomThomson - Wednesday, January 18, 2017 3:35 PM

    <...> in my next job the Prof who was head of computing at UEA <...>

    UEA?  University of East Anglia?  My father taught there, many years ago...

    ...although in rather a different field - he was in the music department.

    Yes, University of East Anglia.  I was there from beginning of April 1969 to end of March 1970 (I left because top of the Junior Lecturer scale was a pretty miserable income - I'd taken the job after GEC took over EEC and closed down NRL, despite better offers from GEC and from elsewhere in industry, because I wanted to do research; but after a year decided the pay was really unacceptable) and Iann Barron's CTL offered me a third more (that was equivalent to 4 scale points above top of Junior Lecturer) with the prospect of a large rise after the first year if I fit in (a genuine offer -  my salary at the beginning of April 1971 was 45% above on my starting salary at the beginning of April 1970) and a promise that I would be involved to a reasonable extent in research (also genuine).  
    I didn't come cross the music department while I was at UEA, for some reason I had an unmusical year (the only one of my life).

    Tom