John Iliffe (other)
John Iliffe may refer to: * John Iliffe (dentist) (1846–1914), British-born Australian dentist *John Iliffe (computer designer) (born 1931), inventor of the Iliffe vector and pioneer of descriptor-based computer architectures * John Iliffe (historian) (born 1939), British professor of African history *John Wesley Iliff John Wesley Iliff Sr. (December 18, 1831 – February 9, 1878) was a Colorado cattle rancher who is the namesake of the Iliff School of Theology in Denver. Biography Iliff was born on December 18, 1831, in McLuney, Ohio to Salome Reed and Thoma ...

John Iliffe (dentist)
John Iliffe (19 November 1846 – 2 August 1914) was an English-born dentist, active in Australia. Iliffe was born in Coventry to ribbon manufacturer Francis Iliffe and his wife Maria, ''née'' Simmons. After apprenticing as a dentist, probably in London, Iliffe moved Melbourne in 1866. He helped to form the Odontological Society of Victoria in 1884, where he became treasurer in 1884–1888, president in 1888-1896 and treasurer again from 1896 to 1914.The Odontological Society - University of Melbourne
In 1890, he was instrumental in opening The Royal Dental Hospital of Melbourne. In 1898, he became editor of the
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John Iliffe (computer Designer)
John Kenneth Iliffe (18 September 1931 – 16 February 2020) was a British computer designer who worked on the design and evaluation of computers that supported fine-grained memory protection and object management. He implemented, evaluated and refined such designs in the Rice Institute Computer, R1 (1958–61) and the ICL Basic Language Machine (1963–68). A key feature in the architectures of both machines was control by the hardware of the formation and use of memory references so that the memory could be seen as a collection of data objects of defined sizes whose integrity is protected from the consequences of errors in address calculation, such as overrunning memory pointers (whether by accident or malicious intent). Technical contributions Iliffe attended the EDSAC programming course in Cambridge in 1952. He eventually learned about computing by running the IBM (UK) service bureau in London. In 1958 he was invited to join the team building the R1 computer at Rice ...
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John Iliffe (historian)
John Iliffe (born 1 May 1939) is a British historian, specialising in the history of Africa and especially Tanzania. He was Professor of African History at the University of Cambridge and fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. He was awarded the 1988 Herskovits Prize The ASA Best Book Prize, formerly known as the Herskovits Prize (Melville J. Herskovits Prize), is an annual prize given by the African Studies Association to the best scholarly work (including translations) on Africa published in English in the pre ... for ''The African Poor: A History''. Iliffe was a fellow of the British Academy from 1989 to 2006. Notable works * ''Africans : The History of a Continent'' * ''Cattle Rancher'' * ''The African Poor : A History'' * ''East African Doctors: A History of the Modern Profession'' * ''A Modern History of Tanganyika'' * ''Honour in African history'' * ''Famine in Zimbabwe, 1890-1960'' * ''The Emergence of African Capitalism'' * ''Obasanjo, Nigeria and the World'' * ''The ...
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