sentences:  The Atlas Computer Laboratory made important contributions to systems software including operating systems, compilers, computer graphics, and networking.Basic software in the areas of statistics, mathematics, linguistics, chemistry and many other areas was also developed.In 1975, the Atlas Computer Laboratory was closed, moving some parts to the Daresbury Laboratory and amalgamating the rest with the neighbouring Rutherford High Energy Laboratory, and then in 1979 with the Appleton Laboratory to form the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.