The history of computing beyond the computer

The British Society for the History of Mathematics:promotes and encourages research into the history of mathematics and disseminates the results of that research;develops awareness of the history of mathematics for the public benefit; andsupports teachers and lecturers at all levels of mathematics education to incorporate the history of mathematics into their teaching, enriching their students’ experience.

British Society for the History of Mathematics

The BSHM meeting on “The history of computing beyond the computer” looks at the people and the science underpinning modern software and programming, from Charles Babbage’s design notation to forgotten female pioneers. Our opening lecture on 21 March is free to attend but please register for a free ticket.
For the full programme (21 + 22 March), registration will be £32.50 for standard tickets, £22.00 for BSHM members and Oxford University staff, and £6.50 for students. This will include tea/coffee and biscuits at break times, but not lunch, as we wanted to keep the registration fee to a minimum. A sandwich lunch or a vegetarian sandwich lunch can be ordered separately on the Eventbrite page. If you have other dietary requirements, please use the contact button at the bottom of this page. There is also a café in the Mathematical Institute that sells hot food at lunchtime, alongside sandwiches and snacks, and there are numerous places to eat within easy walking distance.
The University Rooms website provides details of accommodation in Oxford colleges <A HREF="https://www.universityrooms.com/en-GB/city/oxford/home" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.universityrooms.com/en-GB/city/oxford/home</A>
 
<H2 CLASS="MsoNormal">Programme</H2>
<H4 CLASS="MsoNormal">21 March 2018</H4>
17:00 Andrew Hodges, University of Oxford, author of "Alan Turing: The Enigma” on 'Alan Turing: soft machine in a hard world.’ <A HREF="http://www.turing.org.uk/index.html" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.turing.org.uk/index.html</A>
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<H4 CLASS="MsoNormal">22 March 2018</H4>
9:00 Registration
 9:30 Adrian Johnstone, Royal Holloway University of London, on Charles Babbage's design notation <A HREF="http://blog.plan28.org/2014/11/babbages-language-of-thought.html" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://blog.plan28.org/2014/11/babbages-language-of-thought.html</A>
10:15 Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze, Universitetet i Agder, on early numerical methods in the analysis of the Northern Lights <A HREF="https://www.uia.no/kk/profil/reinhars" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.uia.no/kk/profil/reinhars</A>
11:00 Tea/Coffee
11:30 Julianne Nyhan, University College London, on Father Busa and humanities data <A HREF="https://archelogos.hypotheses.org/135" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://archelogos.hypotheses.org/135</A> 
12:15 Cliff Jones, University of Newcastle, on the history of programming language semantics <A HREF="http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/cliff.jones/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/cliff.jones/</A>
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Mark Priestley, author of "ENIAC in Action, Making and Remaking the Modern Computer" <A HREF="http://www.markpriestley.net/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.markpriestley.net</A>
14:45 Marie Hicks, University of Wisconsin-Madison, author of "Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge In Computing" <A HREF="http://mariehicks.net/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://mariehicks.net</A>
15:30 Tea/Coffee
16:00 Panel discussion to include Martin Campbell-Kelly (Warwick), Andrew Herbert (TNMOC), and Ursula Martin (Oxford)
17:00 End of conference
 
Co-located event
23 March, in Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Symposium for the History and Philosophy of Programming, HaPoP 2018
Programme and further details  <A HREF="https://www.shift-society.org/hapop4/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.shift-society.org/hapop4/</A> 
Registration  <A HREF="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hapop-2018-fourth-symposium-on-the-history-and-philosophy-of-programming-tickets-42680725198" TARGET="_blank" REL="noopener noreferrer">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hapop-2018-fourth-symposium-on-the-history-and-philosophy-of-programming-tickets-42680725198</A>