CHM - Upcoming Events - Donald Knuth, December 3, "A Dozen Precursors of Fortran"

From: Eugene Miya (eugene_at_cse.ucsc.edu)
Date: 11/19/03

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    [BE WARNED: reserve early, the last time Knuth spoke, the Museum had to
    turn away 150 people.]

    WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2003
    Donald Knuth
    "A Dozen Precursors of Fortran"
    Lecture and Book Signing

      The history of a subject helps us not only to understand how the
      important ideas were born but also to appreciate the amount of
      progress that has been made. The history of programming languages
      is a striking example, because basic concepts that we now regard
      as self-evident were by no means obvious a priori; many years of
      hard work by brilliant and dedicated people were necessary before
      these basic principles were learned.

      This talk will discuss contributions of Zuse (1945), Goldstine
      and von Neumann (1946), Curry (1948), Mauchly et al (1949), Burks (1950),
      Wheeler (1951), Rutishauser (1951), Böhm (1951), Glennie (1952),
      Hopper et al (1953), Laning and Zierler (1953), Brooker (1954),
      Kaminynin and Ljubimskiy (1954), Ershov (1955), Grems and Porter (1955),
      Elsworth et al (1955), Blum (1956), Perlis et al (1956),
      Katz et al (1956), Bauer and Samelson (1956), Melahn et al (1956),
      as well as the prototype of FORTRAN developed by Backus et al
      from 1954 to 1957. At least a dozen of these efforts will be
      illustrated by showing how a particular procedure called the
      "TPK algorithm" might have been coded at the time.

      This talk will also celebrate the publication of the speaker's
      new book, Selected Papers on Computer Languages.

    Added note:
    http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/diamondsigns/diam.html

    6:00 PM Member Reception
    7:00 PM Lecture
    Computer History Museum
    1401 N. Shoreline Boulevard
    Mountain View, CA
    http://www.computerhistory.org/events/directions/museum_map.html

    Free. (Suggested donation of $10.00 from non-members.)
    Advance reservations required.
    For more information or to sign up online go to
    www.computerhistory.org/donknuth_12032003/

    Also....

    THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20
    Will Wright
    "Lessons from Game Design"
    COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM co-hosts SDForum's
    Distinguished Speaker Series
    6:00 PM Registration/Networking/Live Jazz
    7:00 PM Talk Begins
    PARC-George E. Pake Auditorium
    3333 Coyote Hill Road
    Palo Alto, CA
    http://www.parc.com/about/directions.html

    COST:
    Pre-Registered: $10
    To register online at the reduced rate, members of
    the following organizations must enter the appropriate
    codes noted below:

    Computer History Museum: CMH10
    ACM SF Bay Area Chapter: ACM10
    Chinese Software Professionals Association: CSPA10

    For online registration and more information:
    www.sdforum.org/SDForum/Templates/CalendarEvent.aspx?CID=1176&mo=11&yr=2003
    or call 408-494-8306.
    At the door: $15 SDForum, Computer History Museum,
    Bay.NET, and CSPA Members.

    THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2003
    John Gage
    COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM co-hosts SDForum's
    "Distinguished Speaker Series"

    COST:
    Pre-Registered: $10
    To register online at the reduced rate, members of
    the following organizations must enter the appropriate
    codes noted below:

    Computer History Museum: CMH10
    ACM SF Bay Area Chapter: ACM10
    Chinese Software Professionals Association: CSPA10

    For online registration and more information:
    www.sdforum.org/SDForum/Templates/CalendarEvent.aspx?CID=1177&mo=12&yr=2003
    or call 408-494-8306.
    At the door: $15 SDForum, Computer History Museum,
    Bay.NET, and CSPA Members.

    Computer History Museum
    1401 N. Shoreline Blvd.
    Mountain View , CA 94043
    (650) 810-1019 Phone
    (650) 810-1010 Main Line
    (650) 810-1055 Fax
    URL: http://www.computerhistory.org/

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