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Call for participation and final program
Registration: 100 DM
Registration and conference dinner: 150 DM
Registration (students): 50 DM
Registration and conference dinner (students): 100 DM
9:00 Welcome address on behalf of the City of Paderborn
9:05 Kurt Beiersdoerfer: Welcome address on behalf of the HNF
9:15 Ulf Hashagen/Raul Rojas: Welcome to the conference and organizational matters
9:30 Michael R. Williams (Calgary)
"A Preview of Things to Come: Some Remarks on the First Generation of Computers"
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Friedrich W. Kistermann (Holzgerlingen)
"The Tabulator DEHOMAG D-11 - An Automatic Sequence-Controlled, Stored Program, Form-Controlled Printing and Summary Punching Calculator"
12:00 Lunch break
14:00 John Gustafson (Ames)
"Reconstruction of the Atanasoff-Berry Computer"
15:00 Anthony Sale (Bletchley Park)
"The Colossus of Bletchley Park - The German Cipher System"
16:00 Coffee break
16:30 Jan Van der Spiegel (Philadelphia)
"The ENIAC: History, Operation and Reconstruction in VLSI"
17:30 William Aspray (Washington)
"The IAS Computer and Impact on Computing at Princeton"
18:30 Break
19:00 I. Bernard Cohen (Cambridge, MA)
"Howard Aiken and the Harvard Mark I - The Dawn of the Computer Age"
20:00 Reception hosted by the Heinz-Nixdorf MuseumsForum
21:00 Posters
Guided tour of the Exhibition
9:00 Michael S. Mahoney (Princeton)
"The Structures of Computation"
10:00 Paul E. Ceruzzi (Washington)
"Computer Architecture after von Neumann"
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 Martin Campbell-Kelly (Warwick)
"The EDSAC Simulator"
12.30 Lunch break
14:00 Tom Kilburn (Manchester)
"The First Stored-Program Computer"
15:00 Chris Burton and Frank Sumner (Manchester)
"Rebuilding the Small-Scale Experimental Machine Mark I"
16:00 Coffee break
16:30 Raul Rojas (Berlin)
"The Architecture of Konrad Zuse's Z1 and Z3"
17:30 Ambros P. Speiser (Zurich)
"Konrad Zuse's Z4: Architecture, Programming, Modifications"
18:30 Break
19:00 Friedrich L. Bauer (Munich)
"Konrad Zuse's Plankalkuel"
20:00 Conference dinner at the MuseumsForum
8:30 Robert W. Seidel (Minneapolis)
"Reconstructions, Historical and Otherwise: The Challenge of High-Tech Artifacts"
9:30 Harry D. Huskey (Bluffton, SC)
"Hardware Components and Computer Design"
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Will Hopmann (Goettingen)
"The G1 and the Goettingen Family of Sequential Computers"
12:00 Seiichi Okoma (Tokyo)
"The First Japanese Computers and Their Software Simulators"
12:30 Eiiti Wada (Tokyo)
"The Initial Orders of the Parametron Computer PC-1"
13:00 Lunch break
14:00 Thomas Lange (Hamburg)
"Helmut Hoelzer: Inventor of the Electronic Analog Computer and his Contribution to the Development of the Rocket A4"
14:30 Andreas Brennecke (Paderborn)
"A Classification Scheme for Program Controlled Calculators"
15:00 Coffee break
15:30 Panel discussion with participants of the Conference journalists and other media representatives: "Who Invented the Computer?"
17:00 Farewell and guided tours of the exhibition
For hotel booking and registration contact
Margret Amedick and Ulf Hashagen
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