Elwyn Rees – Passed away on Jan 2 2024
In the 1960’s Elwyn was a pioneer in the use of computers in education and was the recipient of the HO Wills LEO computer after it was decommissioned and donated to Linwood Secondary school in Leicestershire. He then proceeded to repurpose the machine as the first computer assisted learning machine in the UK in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. As part of that he founded an early Computer Science class at that school. Elwyn went on to apply the lessons learned on that system and applied them to micro computer applications in the 1980’s as personal computing developed. He published extensively on the topic until his retirement. In later years he donated a number of artefacts to the LEO association including a mercury delay line storage unit, which is in the collection of LEO parts at The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley ParK.
He is survived by his son, David, his daughter Emma and his three grandchildren, Bronwyn, Alice and Isabel.
