Frank Land obituary (opens in new tab)

Business computer pioneer and the UK’s first professor of information systems November 2026 will mark the 75th anniversary of the world’s first commercial job run on a stored program computer. On 29 November 1951, the Bakery Valuations job calculated the costs, earnings and margins of the baked goods produced by J Lyons & Co, which was then the UK’s largest catering firm and the first business in the world to use a computer to support its operations.Lyons recruited a programming team to work ...