HC Deb 03 May 1966 vol 727 cc95-6W
Mr. Cousins

The Ministry of Technology has made two capital grants amounting to £47,300 to the British Iron and Steel Research Association and £10,000 to the British Coal Utilisation Research Association being a contribution of 25 per cent. towards the cost of purchase of two computers.

Mr. Ian Lloyd

asked the Minister of Technology if he will give details of the grants which his Department has made to two research associations for the purchase of computers.

MINISTRY OF TECHNOLOGY
ADVANCED COMPUTER TECHNIQUES PROJECT
LIST OF CURRENT CONTRACTS AS AT 30TH APRIL, 1966
1. With Industry
No. Firm Subject Period of Contract Total Cost £ Min. of Tech. Share £
1. Elliott … Tunnel diode logic … 2⅓ years to April, 66 75,000 37,500
2. Plessey … Integrated semi-conductor circuits 2½ years to June, 66 128,000 64,000
3. S.T.C. … Dependability of digital systems 2 years to December, 66 58,600 29,300
4 I.C.T. … High speed logic and related systems design 2½ years to April, 67 63,000 31,500
5. Ferranti … Semi-conductor devices for item 4 (above) 2 years to October, 66 35,000 17,500
6. A.E.I. … Gallium arsenide tunnel diodes 1 year to May, 66 … 36,000 18,000
7. I.C.T. … Design automation … 2 years to October, 67 92,000 46,000
8. I.C.T. … Optical Store … 1½ years to March,67 50,000 25,000
9. S.T.C. … Speech recognition … 1 year to November 66 50,000 25,000
10. B.T.R. … Fluid logic … 2 years to September, 67 52,000 26,000
11. Plessey … Pattern recognition … 1 year to November, 66 25,000 12,500
12. I.C.T. … Interconnected integrated circuit modules 2 years to December, 67 77,000 38,500
13. I.C.T. … Fluid logic … 1½ years to June, 67 50,000 25,000
14. Ferranti … Bipolar transistor store … 2 years to February, 68 31,000 15,500
15. Mullard … MOST store … 1½ years to June, 67 154,000 77,000
16. Mullard … Character recognition … 1 year to December, 66 32,000 16,000
17. Plessey … Plated Wire Store … 1½ years to September, 67 52,000 26,000
18. I.C.T. … Optical Character Recognition 1 year to March, 67 17,500 8,750
Total 1,078,100 539,050

2. With Universities
No. University Subject Period of Contract Total Cost £ Min. of Tech. Share £
1. University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne Use of computers in printing 4 years to June 69 95,000 95,000
2. Imperial College of Science and Technology Compiler processor 3 years to January, 69 106,500 106,500