Dr Troy Astarte (Computer Science, Swansea University) has been appointed as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. Founded in 1979, the Annals is long established as the world’s primary scholarly journal dedicated to the history of computing, from ancient to modern times.

The Annals enjoys a broad readership of scholars and practitioners in computing, science, technology, and humanities. Along with the University’s History of Computing Collection, Troy’s editorship of the top venue in the field of computing history is helping to make Swansea the best-known University centre in the UK for research in history of computing and its impact.