Hugh McGregor Ross is an early pioneer in the history of British computing

Computing

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. He worked for Ferranti

Ferranti

Ferranti or Ferranti International plc was a UK electrical engineering and equipment firm that operated for over a century from 1885 until it went bankrupt in 1993. Known primarily for defence electronics, the Company was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but ceased trading in 1993.The...

 from the mid-1960s, where he worked on the Pegasus thermionic valve

Vacuum tube

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 computer. He was involved in the standardization of ASCII

ASCII

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 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.-Biography:...

. 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 Loek Zeckendorf. He was one of the principal architects of the Universal Character Set

Universal Character Set

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 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, commonly shortened to the Gospel of Thomas, is a well preserved early Christian, non-canonical sayings-gospel discovered near Nag Hammadi, Egypt, in December 1945, in one of a group of books known as the Nag Hammadi library...

 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 Dissenter and a founder of the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers or Friends.The son of a Leicestershire weaver, Fox lived in a time of great social upheaval and war...

. 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• George Fox Speaks for Himself: Texts that reveal his personality—many hitherto unpublished.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
• Говорит сам Джордж Фокс: тексты, раскрывающие его личнотсь (многие публикыуются впервые). Отобрано, отредактировано и представлено Хью Мак-Грегором Россом. Ленинград: [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
• Thirty Essays on the Gospel of Thomas. Cathair na Mart: Evertype, 2008. ISBN 1-904808-12-1. 4th edition Watkins Publishing. ISBN 1 84293 135 0
• Fox: A Christian mystic. Cathair na Mart: Evertype, 2008. ISBN 1-904808-17-6

External links

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