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Hugh McGregor Ross (born August 31, 1917 in Nairobi
Nairobi

Nairobi is the capital city and largest city of Kenya. The city and its surrounding area also forms the Nairobi Province. The name "Nairobi" comes from the Maasai language phrase Enkare Nyirobi, which translates to "the place of cool waters"....
, Kenya
Kenya

The Republic of Kenya is a country in East Africa. It is bordered by Ethiopia to the north, Somalia to the northeast, Tanzania to the south, Uganda to the west, and Sudan to the northwest, with the Indian Ocean running along the southeast border....
) is an early pioneer in the history of British computing
Computing

Computing is usually defined as the activity of using and developing computer technology, computer hardware and computer software. It is the computer-specific part of information technology....
. He worked for Ferranti
Ferranti

Ferranti or Ferranti International plc was a major UK electrical engineering and equipment firm known primarily for defence electronics and power grid systems....
 from the mid-1960s, where he worked on the Pegasus thermionic valve
Vacuum tube

In electronics, a vacuum tube, electron tube , thermionic valve, or just valve is a device used to amplifier, switch, otherwise modify, or create an Electricity signal by controlling the movement of electrons in a low-pressure space....
 computer. He was involved in the standardization of ASCII
ASCII

American Standard Code for Information Interchange , is a coding standard that can be used for interchanging information, if the information is expressed mainly by the written form of English words....
 and ISO 646 and worked closely with Bob Bemer
Bob Bemer

Robert William Bemer was a computer scientist best known for his work at IBM during the late 1950s and early 1960s....
.






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Hugh McGregor Ross (born August 31, 1917 in Nairobi
Nairobi

Nairobi is the capital city and largest city of Kenya. The city and its surrounding area also forms the Nairobi Province. The name "Nairobi" comes from the Maasai language phrase Enkare Nyirobi, which translates to "the place of cool waters"....
, Kenya
Kenya

The Republic of Kenya is a country in East Africa. It is bordered by Ethiopia to the north, Somalia to the northeast, Tanzania to the south, Uganda to the west, and Sudan to the northwest, with the Indian Ocean running along the southeast border....
) is an early pioneer in the history of British computing
Computing

Computing is usually defined as the activity of using and developing computer technology, computer hardware and computer software. It is the computer-specific part of information technology....
. He worked for Ferranti
Ferranti

Ferranti or Ferranti International plc was a major UK electrical engineering and equipment firm known primarily for defence electronics and power grid systems....
 from the mid-1960s, where he worked on the Pegasus thermionic valve
Vacuum tube

In electronics, a vacuum tube, electron tube , thermionic valve, or just valve is a device used to amplifier, switch, otherwise modify, or create an Electricity signal by controlling the movement of electrons in a low-pressure space....
 computer. He was involved in the standardization of ASCII
ASCII

American Standard Code for Information Interchange , is a coding standard that can be used for interchanging information, if the information is expressed mainly by the written form of English words....
 and ISO 646 and worked closely with Bob Bemer
Bob Bemer

Robert William Bemer was a computer scientist best known for his work at IBM during the late 1950s and early 1960s....
. ASCII was first known in Europe as the Bemer-Ross Code. He was also one of the three main designers of ISO 6937, with Peter Fenwick and Luek Zeckondorf. He was one of the principal architects of the Universal Character Set
Universal Character Set

The Universal Character Set , defined by the International Organization for Standardization/International Electrotechnical Commission 10646 International Organization for Standardization, is a standard set of character s upon which many character encodings are based....
 ISO/IEC 10646 when it was first conceived.

Hugh is an expert in the Gospel of Thomas
Gospel of Thomas

The Gospel According to Thomas , also known as The Gospel of Thomas, is a New Testament-era apocryphon, nearly completely preserved in a Coptic papyrus manuscript discovered in 1945 at Nag Hammadi, Egypt....
 and has written several books about it. He is a Quaker, and has also written about George Fox
George Fox

George Fox was an English Dissenters and a founder of the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers or Friends.The son of a Weaver from rural England, Fox was apprenticed to a Shoemaker....
. His working papers on the teachings of Fox are held at Yorkshire Quaker Heritage Project.

Books by Hugh McGregor Ross

  • George Fox Speaks for Himself: Texts that reveal his personality—many hitherto unpublished. York: William Sessions, 1991. ISBN 1-85072-081-9
  • ??????? ??? ?????? ????: ??????, ???????????? ??? ???????? (?????? ???????????? ???????). ????????, ??????????????? ? ???????????? ??? ???-???????? ??????. ?????????: [s.n.]. ISBN 5 94067 018 0
  • The Gospel of Thomas: newly presented to bring out the meaning, with introductions paraphrases and notes. Colchester: The Millrind Press, 1997. ISBN 1 902194 02 0. Second edition Element Books, ISBN 1 84293 036 2. First edition York: Ebor Press, ISBN 1 85072 019 3
  • Jesus untouched by the Church: His Teachings in the Gospel of Thomas. Calligraphy by John Blamires. York: William Sessions Limited, 1998. ISBN 1 85072213 7
  • . Cathair na Mart: Evertype, 2008. ISBN 1-904808-12-1. 4th edition Watkins Publishing. ISBN 1 84293 135 0
  • . Cathair na Mart: Evertype, 2008. ISBN 1-904808-17-6


External links

  • . Hugh McGregor Ross' web site about translation and commentary on the Gospel of Thomas.