Background
Stanley Gill was born 26 March 1926 in Worthing, West Sussex, England.
Stanley Gill was born 26 March 1926 in Worthing, West Sussex, England.
He was educated at Worthing High School for Boys and was, during his schooldays, a member of an amateur dramatic society. He graduated Bachelor in 1947 and Master of Arts in 1950.
In 1943 he was awarded a State Scholarship and went to Saint John's College, Cambridge, where he read Mathematics/ Natural Sciences. From 1952 to 1955 he was a Research Fellow at Street John's working in a team led by Maurice Wilkes. The research involved pioneering work with the EDSAC computer in the Cavendish Laboratory.
He gained Doctor of Philosophy in 1953 and, following a year as Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana, joined the Computer Department at Ferranti Limited.
In the United Kingdom in 1963 he was appointed Professor of Automatic Data Processing, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, Manchester and, following various consultancies including International Computers Limited he was appointed in 1964 to the newly created Chair of Computing Science at Imperial College, London University. During his time at Imperial College, Gill was also Director of the Imperial College Centre for Computing and Automation and was a consultant to the Ministry of Technology.
In 1970 he became Chairman of Software Sciences Holdings Limited and was Director of various companies in the Miles Roman Group. From 1972 until his death in 1975 he was Senior Consultant to Pennsylvania International Management Consultants Limited.
Gill travelled widely and advised on the establishment of departments of computing in several universities around the world.
He was also President of the British Computer Society from 1967 to 1968.
Gill was a founding member of the Real Time Club in 1967 and its chairman from 1970 to 1975.