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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/ ———————————————————————————————————— 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/