Dr Richard Gillespie

Senior Curator, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology; Honorary Principal Fellow, School of Historical & Philosophical Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne

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Sciences & Technology

Happy 70th Birthday to Australia's first computing class

We now carry computers in our pockets, but in 1955, the University of Melbourne became home to the two-tonne CSIRAC computer. Our picture gallery celebrates 70 years of Australia’s first university computing department

Sciences & Technology

After 250 years, Mount Vesuvius exhibit erupts back into life

A model of Mount Vesuvius erupting, designed in 1775, has been rebuilt by engineering students for a new exhibition at the University of Melbourne