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10:15 |
Welcome and Introduction
Dr Roger Johnson - CCS Chair |
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10:30 |
Development of electronic machines at Bletchley Park |
Dr Anthony Sale |
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11:00 |
The Colossus rebuild project
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Mr John Pether |
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11:45 |
Demonstrations of the completed Colossus Mk-II
Tour of new Computer Museum |
The Colossus Team & The volunteers of the National Museum of Computing |
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13:45 |
The Bombe rebuild project |
Mr John Harper |
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15:30 |
Demonstration of the completed Bombe |
The Bombe Rebuild Team |
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11:00 |
Welcome and Introduction
Dr Roger Johnson - CCS Chair
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Session 1 |
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11:15 |
First Steps
Chair: Mr Ernest Morris |
i, Prof. Jack Copeland: How It Begain: Colossus..Turing..stored program
ii, Dr Roger Johnson: BTM - From punched cards to commercial computers
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Session 2 |
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13:30 |
Pioneering machines and architectures 1948 - 1998
Chair: Mr John Aris
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i, Prof. Sir Maurice Wilkes: Developments at Cambridge University
ii, Prof. Dai Edwards: Developments at Manchester University
iii, Mr Iann Barron: Hardware support for Parallelism |
Session 3 |
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15:30 |
Low volume production computers 1951 - 1961
Chair: Mr Peter Hall |
i, Mr Laurence Clarke: Hardware and Architectures
ii, Mr George Felton: System Software |
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18:00 |
Drinks reception with light buffet |
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Session 4 |
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09:30 |
British contributions to enabling technology underpinning modern IT 1970 - 2006
Chair: Dr David Hartley |
i, Prof. Peter Kirstein - Networking
ii, Mr David Allen - Affordable home computing
and the BBC micro |
Session 5 |
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11:15 |
Professionalisation: Milestones in the development of a professional society
Chair: Mr John Ivinson
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i, Forums
ii, Education and Training
iii, Awards
Ms Rachel Burnett, Mr Peter Barnes, Mr Geoff McMullen |
Session 6 |
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13:30 |
Computers as marketable products and the public perception of computer technology
Chair : Dr Tilly Blyth |
i, Mr Chris Hipwell: Computers and the Press
ii, Mr Dan Hayton: Computers in Film |
