Manchester Update

CTI Support Network has moved to Newton Street in the Northern Quarter following a 2 year stint in Salford where they had to relocate temporarily subsequent to the Dale Street fire on the 30^th of April 2007.

The expert web development company has continued growing it’s team throughout the economic downturn and shows no signs of slowing down as it has recently expanded it’s team by appointing a further three developers.  With the benefit of over 20 developers specialising in Drupal, Magento, Grails, PHP, Java and more, CTI have proven that their nightmare of a couple of years ago is long gone, a feeling shared by Nick Rhind, Managing Director of CTI:

“We are happy to be back in Manchester’s most vibrant and dynamic area.   The Northern Quarter is home to some of the most entrepreneurial and creative individuals in the city and as an energetic and ambitious company, we feel this is where we need to be to continue expanding our business.”

He went on to say: “CTI really is going from strength to strength.  Our development team and its new members are extremely happy to be in this exciting part of town, back where they belong.”

CTI Network Support – Web Development – Drupal & Magento Developers Manchester UK

On June 21 1948, shortly after 11am, an event took place at the University of Manchester which shook the world and put Manchester at the forefront of a global technological revolution.

The event was the birth of the world’s first stored program computer, or the ‘Baby’, as it became known. It had been a race between Manchester, Cambridge and Teddington in the UK and Philadelphia in the US. The race was won in Manchester when Freddie Williams and Tom Kilburn successfully ran the first program on their innovative machine, the ‘Baby’.

Until this point, information could only be processed mechanically via punched cards, dating from the time of Babbage’s original calculating machine, but not stored electronically. By using what we now call ‘software’, the ‘Baby’ became the model for the modern day computer.

To make the idea of a stored program a reality required pioneering design skills and concentrated effort. A revised version of the ‘Baby’ was later made available to a much wider community when a commercial version, known as the Mark 1, was built by Ferranti.

Digital Summer 98 is a celebration of this world first event. Throughout the summer, many organisations and individuals from across the Manchester city region will be joining forces and staging events to promote a wider public interest and involvement in local and national achievements in innovative and creative uses of new technologies.

The University of Manchester is celebrating the birth of the ‘Baby’ with academic conferences, a live video-link ‘switch on’ of the replica ‘Baby’ and a celebration concert at the Bridgewater Hall. A public open day in the Department of Computer Science in June, showed how, 50 years on, the university is still at the leading edge of computing developments.

Manchester Museum’s The Birth of the Baby Exhibition, running until September 19, looks at computers past and present and includes some of the original components used in the first machine as well as an electronic future with interactive TV, virtual reality and Internet conferencing.

The Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester has opened a new Futures Gallery which explores the past and future of communications and features state-of-the-art and historic technologies. This includes the replica ‘Baby’ machine – rebuilt by Chris Burton and the Computer Conservation Society and sponsored by ICL.

Manchester City Council is co-ordinating a series of public arts and music events throughout the summer, including D.percussion, a day-long free festival of music and digital art, and ds98@theGreenRoom, a three-week programme of digital installations, performances and screenings. In addition, as a founding member of the Telecities network and the European Digital Cities project, Manchester City Council is hosting a series of international seminars and conferences, bringing together key players in telematics from all over Europe.

The City Council is also supporting a Cyberschools project as a legacy to Digital Summer 98, which will encourage the use of new technologies in all Manchester schools. At the end of Digital Summer 98, Manchester’s Electronic Commerce – e-commerce – week, September 7-11, provides a unique opportunity to explore the future of business on the Internet.

Manchester will be hosting the G8 International Conference on Electronic Commerce on September 7-8 together with European, regional and local seminars and exhibitions on e-commerce on September 9-11. Together with the International Symposium on Electronic Art – ISEA 98 – on September 5-7, and more digital arts events through September, Manchester continues to be at the cutting edge of the new technologies.