Dick Buckingham was a member of the Atlas Computer Committee from 1961 to 1968.
Dick Buckingham was the first and only Director of the London University Institute of Computer Science, playing a key role in the development of computer science as a mainstream subject before moving to become, in l974, the Professor of Computer Education at Birkbeck College, from which post he retired in 1978.
He was the founder Director of the University of London Computer Unit in 1957, which later became the Atlas Computing Service and the University of London Computing Center. He was a numerical analyst who recognized before many of his colleagues that academic computing should be related to areas far removed from its science and engineering origins and that these areas would become increasingly important.
He died in 1994.
