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International Conference on the History of Computing
August 14-16 1998
Heinz-Nixdorf MuseumsForum
Paderborn, Germany
http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~widiger/ICHC/

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

August 14, 1998

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

August 15, 1998

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

August 16, 1998

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
HNF Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum
Fuerstenallee 7
33102 Paderborn
Germany
Tel : +49/5251/306-983
FAX: +49/5251/306-989
email: ICHC@hnf.de


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From: Ulf Hashagen <uhashagen@hnf.de>
Subject: Konferenz: International Conference on the History of Computing, August 1998 - Paderborn
Date: 25.6.1998


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