The Computer Journal is a journal

Academic journal

An academic journal is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research...

 published by the Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press is the largest university press in the world. It is a department of the University of Oxford and is governed by a group of 15 academics appointed by the Vice-Chancellor known as the Delegates of the Press. They are headed by the Secretary to the Delegates, who serves as...

 on behalf of the British Computer Society

British Computer Society

The British Computer Society, is a professional body and a learned society that represents those working in Information Technology in the United Kingdom and internationally...

. It contains peer-reviewed articles and other contributions on computer science

Computer science

Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...

 and information systems

Information systems

Information Systems is an academic/professional discipline bridging the business field and the well-defined computer science field that is evolving toward a new scientific area of study...

. Its first issue appeared in 1958, and it has been published continually since. Several breakthroughs in computer science were first reported in the journal, including the Quicksort algorithm proposed by C. A. R. Hoare

C. A. R. Hoare

Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare , commonly known as Tony Hoare or C. A. R. Hoare, is a British computer scientist best known for the development of Quicksort, one of the world's most widely used sorting algorithms...

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The authors of the best paper in each volume receive the Wilkes Award and Medal granted by the British Computer Society

British Computer Society

The British Computer Society, is a professional body and a learned society that represents those working in Information Technology in the United Kingdom and internationally...

. In 2009, the winners include Dr. Boleslaw Szymanski

Boleslaw Szymanski

Boleslaw Karl Szymanski is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science and the Founding Head of the Center for Pervasive Computing and Networking, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He's known for multiple contributions into computer science, including Szymanski's Algorithm.-Current Work:Dr...

 and Dr. Chen of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Stephen Van Rensselaer established the Rensselaer School on November 5, 1824 with a letter to the Rev. Dr. Samuel Blatchford, in which van Rensselaer asked Blatchford to serve as the first president. Within the letter he set down several orders of business. He appointed Amos Eaton as the school's...

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Editors-in-Chief

• 1958–1969 Eric N. Mutch
• 1969–1992 Peter Hammersley
• 1993–2000 C. J. van Rijsbergen
  C. J. van Rijsbergen
  C. J. "Keith" van Rijsbergen is a professor of computer science and the leader of the Glasgow Information Retrieval Group based at the University of Glasgow...
  
  
• 2000–2008 Fionn Murtagh
• 2008– Erol Gelenbe
  Erol Gelenbe
  Sami Erol Gelenbe is a Turkish computer scientist, engineer and applied mathematician who currently holds the Dennis Gabor Professorship at Imperial College...
  
  

External links

• Official website
• History of the journal by Stella Mills

• DBLP bibliography (1970 onwards)
• IngentaConnect access
• This journal's webpage at Oxford Journals