The Oxford Mathematics Institute and the British Society for the History of
Mathematics host “History of Computing beyond the Computer" on 21-22 March,
with speakers Marie Hicks, Andrew Hodges, Adrian Johnstone, Cliff Jones,
Julianne Nyhan, Cliff Jones, Mark Priestly, and Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze,
with a focus on the people and the science underpinning modern programming,
from Charles Babbage’s hardware design language to the systematic exclusion
of women.
Full programme below and booking here
Link
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-history-of-computing-beyond-the-computer-tickets-40057294446
The event is colocated with HAPOP, the Fourth Symposium on the History and
Philosophy of Programming, taking place on 23 March 2018
Link https://www.shift-society.org/hapop4/
The events coincide with the Oxford Literary Festival: on 19 March 2018, Ursula
Martin and Miranda Seymour will be talking about their new books on Ada
Lovelace; Wendy Hall will be giving the Bodleian’s Lovelace Lecture; and Mike
Wooldridge talks about his new book on AI
Link http://oxfordliteraryfestival.org/literature-events/2018/march-19
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History of Computing beyond the Computer
Link
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-history-of-computing-beyond-the-computer-tickets-40057294446
21 March 2018
17:00 Andrew Hodges, University of Oxford, author of "Alan Turing: The
Enigma” on 'Alan Turing: soft machine in a hard world.’
Link http://www.turing.org.uk/index.html
22 March 2018
9:00 Registration
9:30 Adrian Johnstone, Royal Holloway University of London, on Charles
Babbage's design notation
Link http://blog.plan28.org/2014/11/babbages-language-of-thought.html
10:15 Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze, Universitetet i Agder, on early 20th century
methods in the analysis of the Northern Lights
Link https://www.uia.no/kk/profil/reinhars
11:00 Tea/Coffee
11:30 Julianne Nyhan, University College London, on Father Busa and humanities
data
Link https://archelogos.hypotheses.org/135
12:15 Cliff Jones, University of Newcastle, on the history of programming
language semantics
Link http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/cliff.jones/
13:00 Lunch + demo of a steam-powered 3-D printed difference engine
14:00 Mark Priestley, author of "ENIAC in Action, Making and Remaking the
Modern Computer"
Link http://www.markpriestley.net
14:45 Marie Hicks, University of Wisconsin-Madison, author of "Programmed
Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge In
Computing"
Link http://mariehicks.net
15:30 Tea/Coffee
16:00 Panel discussion to include Martin Campbell-Kelly (Warwick), Andrew
Herbert (TNMOC), and Ursula Martin (Oxford)
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