Editing University of Cambridge Computing Service

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[[File:Cavendish Laboratory door.jpg|thumb|upright|Entrance to New Museums Site, Free School Lane]]

The '''University of Cambridge Computing Service''' provided computing facilities across the [[University of Cambridge]] between 1970 and 2014.  It was located primarily on the [[New Museums Site]], [[Free School Lane]], in the centre of [[Cambridge]], [[England]] but, in September 2013 moved to the [[Roger Needham]] Building on the [[West Cambridge]] site.

The Computing Service shares a common ancestry with the [[University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory]]. Founded on 14 May 1937 ''to provide a computing service for general use, and to be a centre for the development of computational techniques in the University'' as the ''Mathematical Laboratory'' (under the leadership of [[John Lennard-Jones]]), it was not until 2001 that the provision of computing services across the University and Colleges was fully separated from computing research and teaching.

On 30 March 2014, the Computing Service merged with the [http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/misd/ Management Information Services Division (MISD)] of the [http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/ Unified Administrative Service (UAS)] to create the [http://www.uis.cam.ac.uk/ University Information Services] department.

==Landmark projects and services==
* [[EDSAC]] computer, 1949 - a pioneering [[Stored program|stored-program]] computer
* [[EDSAC 2]] computer, 1965 - first computer to have a [[Microcode|microprogrammed]] CPU
* [[Titan (1963 computer)|Titan]] computer, 1966 - timeshared computer developed jointly with Ferranti subsequently marketed as the commercial Atlas 2
* [[Phoenix (computer)|Phoenix]] computer, 1973 - an [[IBM System/370|IBM 370/165]] running an IBM OS modified for improved interactive timesharing
* [[Exim]] mail transfer agent, 1995 - in continued open-source development and in very widespread use
* [http://raven.cam.ac.uk/ Raven] authentication service, 2004 - a web-based authentication framework particularly suited to the widespread adoption across many federated institutions as at Cambridge. Extended subsequently to integrate with inter-organisational [[Shibboleth (Internet2)|Shibboleth]] authentication and provide lifetime credentials known as Raven-for-life.
* [http://www.wireless.cam.ac.uk/ Lapwing] [[Federated Wireless]] platform, 2006 - provides local management via web console/APIs to 200 institutions while retaining a single network appearance with common [[authentication]] and reporting.
* [http://www.phone.cam.ac.uk/ my.phone] user/telephony federated administration system, 2010 - providing a usable federated administrative interface to the [[VoIP]] platform to 17,000 users and 200 institutions.
* [http://www.lookup.cam.ac.uk/doc/ws-doc/ IBIS] [[Master Data|master reference data]] / [[identity management]] service, 2011 - provides a central common data repository with [[Ldap|LDAP]] and [[Web service]] API's for 300,000 members of 250 institutions, with a sophisticated federated [[Computer access control|access control model]].

==Directors of the University of Cambridge Computing Service==
* [[Maurice Wilkes]] 1945–1980 (as head of the [[University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory]])
* [[David Hartley (computer scientist)|David Hartley]] 1970–1994 (first head of the dedicated University Computing Service)
* [[Mike Sayers (computer scientist)|Mike Sayers]] 1994–2004
* [[Ian Lewis (computer scientist)|Ian Lewis]] 2005–2014 (final Director before the merger with MISD to create the UIS)

==See also==
* [[University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory]]
* [[Oxford University Computing Services]]

==External links==
* [http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs University of Cambridge Computing Service]
* [http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/ University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory]

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