Dennis Feltham Jones (1917–1981) was a science fiction author writing under the byline D. F. Jones. He was a naval commander in WWII and lived in Cornwall. Jump to: navigation, search 1917 was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1981 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... Jump to: navigation, search World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons such as the atom bomb World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a mid-20th-century conflict that... Jump to: navigation, search Motto: Onan hag oll (Cornish: One and all) Cornwall, England Geography Status Ceremonial and (smaller) Non-metropolitan county Region South West England Area - Total - Admin. ...
His novel, Colossus, about a defence super computer which uses its control over nuclear weapons to subjugate mankind, was filmed as Colossus: The Forbin Project. It is speculated that he worked with the first computers in Britain during WWII and could have had privileged knowledge of the actual Colossus computer long before its secret role in military history was revealed. A supercomputer is a device for turning compute-bound problems into I/O-bound problems. ... Jump to: navigation, search The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, 1945, rose some 18 km (11 mi) above the hypocenter. ... Colossus was a fictional computer featured in the 1969 apocalyptic science fiction movie, Colossus: The Forbin Project loosely based on the 1967 novel Colossus by Dennis Feltham Jones. ... Jump to: navigation, search A Colossus Mark II computer. ...
A brief bibliography consists of:
The Colossus Series
Colossus (1966)
The Fall of Colossus (1974)
Colossus and the Crab (1977)
Colossus, The Fall of Colossus, Colossus and the Crab
Other Novels
Implosion (1967)
Don't Pick the Flowers (1971) aka Denver is Missing
Jones reported that the faculty committee had been working over the summer to develop recommendations to forward to the Provost regarding budget reallocations.
Jones concluded by noting that the above-described process is not intended to impede the normal case-by-case decisions on retention made by the Provost nor to foreclose targets of opportunity outside of recruitment plans.
Jones noted that the specific examples cited on page 2 came from the environmental scan and other sources, rather than just from the people who were in the room at the time the document was written.
In theory, this was a transitional year for Formula One, as the turbo boost was lowered from four bar to 2.8 to give the advantage to normally aspirated engines in preparation for a turbo ban and fuel capacity lowered from 195 to 150 litres.
Dennis, rather than accept a cut in budget from Marlboro, preferred to find a new major sponsor, and did so with West.
The trend was to continue as Jones won four of the six remaining races that year.
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