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16-605: Trefethen is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Anne Trefethen , British computer scientist, former wife of Lloyd N. Florence Newman Trefethen (1921–2012), American codebreaker, poet, and English professor, wife of Lloyd M. and mother of Lloyd N. Lloyd M. Trefethen (1919–2001), American fluid dynamics researcher, husband of Florence and father of Lloyd N. Lloyd N. Trefethen (born 1955), British mathematician, son of Florence and Lloyd M., former husband of Anne See also [ edit ] Trefethen Vineyards ,

32-587: A winery in Napa County, California, United States [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with the surname Trefethen . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trefethen&oldid=896645903 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description

48-511: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Anne Trefethen Anne Elizabeth Trefethen FREng is Pro Vice-Chancellor (People & Digital), and professor of Scientific Computing at the University of Oxford . She is a fellow of St Cross College . Her work in industry and academia focuses on numerical algorithms and software, computational science and high-performance computing . On 1 June 2018, Trefethen joined

64-609: Is inspired by the Neolithic hand axe , humans' first technological advance, which was taken to be a symbol appropriate to the Academy, supposedly representative of the ever-changing relationship between humanity and technology. The Academy's premises, 3–4 Carlton House Terrace , are in a Grade I listed building overlooking St James's Park , designed by architect John Nash and owned by the Crown Estate . The Academy shares

80-511: Is written for a non-specialist audience and is "aimed at all those with an interest in engineering, whether working in business and industry, government, academia or the financial community". The Academy also makes Ingenia available to A-Level students in 3,000 schools in the UK. The president of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the elected officer of the Academy, presides over meetings of

96-492: The Fellowship of Engineering with support from Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh , who became the first senior fellow and remained so until his death. The Fellowship was incorporated and granted a royal charter on 17 May 1983 and became the Royal Academy of Engineering on 16 March 1992. It is governed according to the charter and associated statutes and regulations (as amended from time to time). In June 2024 His Majesty

112-641: The Oxford e-Research Centre (2006–2012). and Co-Director of the Institute for the Future of Computing, part of the James Martin 21st Century School . Before coming to Oxford in 2005, Trefethen was Deputy Director and then Director of the UK e-Science Core Programme that addressed broad issues in e-Science and Grid computing through the development of middleware and infrastructure. From 1997 - 2001 she

128-719: The board of the UK Statistics Authority as a non-executive director. Trefethen was appointed Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Academic Services and University Collections) at the University of Oxford in January 2015, and was responsible for overseeing the university's libraries, museums and collections and its language teaching services. She was appointed the university's first chief information officer in March 2012 until October 2017, prior to which she served as Director of

144-517: The jet engine developer, the structural engineer Sir Ove Arup , radar pioneer Sir George G. MacFarlane , the inventor of the bouncing bomb , Sir Barnes Wallis , Francis Thomas Bacon , the inventor of the alkaline fuel cell , and father of the UK computer industry Sir Maurice Wilkes . The Fellowship's first president, Christopher Hinton , had driven the UK's supremacy in nuclear power . The Fellowship focused on championing excellence in all fields of engineering. Activities began in earnest in

160-516: The Academy launched its first major initiative in education, Engineering Education Continuum, which evolved into the BEST Programme and Shape the Future and Tomorrow's Engineers. The Academy's increasing level of influence – in policy, research and education – was recognized when it was granted a royal title and became The Royal Academy of Engineering in 1992. In 2014 the academy launched its annual Africa Prize. The Academy's current logo

176-418: The Future . The Academy is one of four agencies that receive funding from the UK's Department for Business, Innovation and Skills for activities that support government policy on public understanding of science and engineering. As part of its programme to communicate the benefits and value of engineering to society, the Academy publishes a quarterly magazine, Ingenia [1] . The Academy says that Ingenia

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192-605: The King became Patron of the Academy. Conceived in the late 1960s, during the Apollo space program and Harold Wilson 's espousal of " white heat of technology ", the Fellowship of Engineering was born in the year of Concorde 's first commercial flight. The Fellowship's first meeting, at Buckingham Palace on 11 June 1976, enrolled 126 of the UK's leading engineers. The first fellows included Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle ,

208-598: The Terrace with two of its sister academies, the British Academy and the Royal Society as well as other institutes. The building was renamed Prince Philip House, after renovation works were completed in 2012. The Academy is instrumental in two policy alliances set up in 2009 to provide coherent advice on engineering education and policy across the profession: Education for Engineering and Engineering

224-418: The council. The president is elected for a single term of not more than five years. The Fellowship currently includes over 1,500 engineers from all sectors and disciplines of engineering. The fellows, distinguished by the title Fellow of The Royal Academy of Engineering and the post-nominal designation FREng , lead, guide, and contribute to the Academy's work and provide expertise. The Royal Fellows of

240-802: The mid-1970s with the Distinction lecture series, now known as the Hinton lectures. The Fellowship was asked to advise the Department of Industry for the first time, and the Academy became host and presenter of the MacRobert Award . In the 1980s, the Fellowship received its own royal charter along with its first government grant-in-aid . At the same time, it also received significant industrial funding, initiated its research programme to build bridges between academia and industry, and opened its doors to international and honorary fellows. In 1990,

256-648: Was Vice-President for Research and Development at Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) Ltd. Trefethen spent 1988 - 1997 in the US at Thinking Machines Corporation and was Associate Director for Scientific Computational Support at the Cornell Theory Center . In 2017 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering . Royal Academy of Engineering The Academy was founded in June 1976 as

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