[TUHS] Role of Unix in Australian Accounting research: Ball & Brown, founding AGSM

[steve jenkin]

Correction:
	they’d not done any computing at UNSW.

Laurence Fisher at U Chicago ‘created the data base’.

UNSW Faculty of Commerce / Accounting created the first "Information Systems” department & courses in 1974 under Cyril Brooks.

AGSM at UNSW was created in 1976, with Ball & Brown working together again.


On 12 Feb 2024, at 04:04, Ball, Ray  wrote:

Thanks for your interest. 
Neither Phil nor I had any exposure to computing at UNSW. 
With one exception we both started our programming with Fortran on the U Chicago 7094 (with job flows scheduled by a 7040).  
The exception is that in the summer of 1966, before leaving for Chicago, I interned at IBM in Sydney working on a 360, but that was pretty simple stuff.

> On 10 Feb 2024, at 17:47, steve jenkin <sjenkin at canb.auug.org.au> wrote:
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> 
> <snip>
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> While Ball & Brown studied in Faculty of Commerce, they obviously had enough of a grounding
> in ‘computing’ and data collection / handling / analysis to set the stage for their 1968 paper.
> 
> In 1971, Fortran IV was taught to first year students in Science, using John M Blatt’s (of UNSW) textbook.
> It’s not unreasonable that Finance & Accounting had courses or training in Computing 5 years before that.
> 
> Within 10 years, they were both back at UNSW, running AGSM, teaching & using Digital research methods,
> based solidly on Unix…
> 
> cheers
> steve
> 

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