Hugh Ross

Name: Hugh McGregor Ross

Born: August 31, 1917, in Nairobi, Kenya

Computer-related contributions

• Early pioneer in the history of British computing.
• He worked on the Pegasus thermionic valve computer in the mid-1960s.
• He was involved in the standardization of ASCII and ISO 646. ASCII was first known in Europe as the Bemer-Ross Code.
• He was also one of the three main designers of ISO 6937.
• One of the principal architects of the Universal Character Set ISO/IEC 10646 when it was first conceived.

Significant publications

• George Fox: A Christian mystic (2008).
• Thirty Essays on the Gospel of Thomas (2008).
• Jesus untouched by the Church (1998).
• The Gospel of Thomas (1997).
• George Fox Speaks for Himself: Texts that reveal his personality (1991).