{"id":5801,"date":"2014-06-01T12:39:19","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T11:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/?p=5801"},"modified":"2024-10-22T09:50:53","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T08:50:53","slug":"professor-patrick-purcell-1995","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/professor-patrick-purcell-1995\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Patrick Purcell: 1995"},"content":{"rendered":"

Professor Patrick Purcell<\/a> (1929-2007) was described in his Times obituary as “Pioneer of computing and design<\/strong>“. As far as I know, this is the only interview made with Patrick, whom I got to know during his time as visiting professor of human computer interaction at Imperial College London. I had actually known him prior to that via LIVE-NET<\/a> Video Conference from Northern Ireland linking through to Imperial.<\/p>\n

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A Video Interface recording 1995<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Until his death, he worked along side Professor Bob Spence (1933-2024)<\/a>, who commented after Patrick’s death “…when I realised that Patrick Purcell was approaching retirement from his appointment in Northern Ireland I immediately suggested to the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering<\/a> of Imperial that he be invited to be a Visiting Professor. A very selfish act, no doubt, but one I have never regretted…”<\/p>\n

At my suggestion, this interview was recorded for an outside company called Lantec and was in the occasional series called Video Interface<\/a>. Because of Patrick’s depth of knowledge of all things ‘digital’, this was the obvious first question posed to him at the start of the interview by Steve Bell<\/a>. It was recorded in the Imperial College TV Studio in June 1995.