The Oxford Mathematics Institute and the British Society for the History of Mathematics host “History of Computing beyond the Computer" on 21-22 March.
The event commences on 21st March with a free lecture by Andrew Hodges, author of "Alan Turing: The Enigma”, at 5pm, and continues on 22nd March (paid registration required) with speakers Marie Hicks, Adrian Johnstone, Cliff Jones, Julianne Nyhan, 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, booking closes 16th March
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: speakers include senior computer scientists John Tucker and Dale Miller. Booking and programme here.
https://www.shift-society.org/hapop4/
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History of Computing beyond the Computer
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.’
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
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
https://www.uia.no/kk/profil/reinhars
11:00 Tea/Coffee
11:30 Julianne Nyhan, University College London, on Father Busa and humanities data
https://archelogos.hypotheses.org/135
12:15 Cliff Jones, University of Newcastle, on the history of programming language semantics
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"
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"
http://mariehicks.net
15:30 Tea/Coffee
16:00 Panel discussion, "Why should we care about the history of computing", to include Martin Campbell-Kelly (Warwick), Andrew Herbert (TNMOC), Tilly Blyth (London Science Museum) and Ursula Martin (Oxford), followed by a drinks reception.
Professor Ursula Martin CBE FREng FRSE
University of Oxford
www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/ursula.martin/
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