 A few months after this, Linfoot moved to the University of Cambridge, being appointed Assistant Director of the Cambridge Observatory.He would remain at Cambridge until his retirement in 1970, eventually succeeding Dr H. A. Brück as John Couch Adams Astronomer.During this time Linfoot took a great interest in Claude Shannon's new field of information theory and also in computers, writing several programs for the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator at Cambridge.