1922–2012
Role: John Pinkerton’s assistant
Responsibility: Circuit design, LEO and LEO II
Engineering graduate Ernest Kaye was recruited from General Electric Research Laboratories [LINK TO WIKI] in 1949, where he had worked on projects including underwater homing torpedoes. He became John Pinkerton’s assistant at Lyons, where he was jointly responsible for the circuit design of both LEO and LEO II, and where his practical experience in pulse technology played a key role.
Biographies – The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, The Daily Telegraph, The Next Web, The Centre of Computing History, Jamillah Knowles’ Outriders BBC Podcast