In the late 1940s—when computer engineers were grappling with unreliable hardware and noisy transmission environments—a team of engineers inside a modest lab at the University of Manchester, England, ...

In June 1949, a press photographer captured a young man in a shirt and tie working on a metal drum plated with nickel. His name was Tommy Thomas, a graduate student at The University of Manchester.

The University of Manchester has been awarded a third Milestone Award by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The award honours significant technical achievement for the ...

A self-clocking data encoding method that divides the time required to define the bit into two cycles. The first cycle is the data value (0 or 1) and the second cycle provides the timing by shifting ...