Seminar series
Date
Thu, 16 Oct 2008
Time
14:00 -
15:00
Location
Comlab
Speaker
Dr David Mayers
Organisation
University of Oxford
This is not intended to be a systematic History, but a selection of highlights, with some digressions, including:
The early days of the Computing Lab;
How the coming of the Computer changed some of the ways we do Computation;
A problem from the Study Groups;
Influence of the computing environment (hardware and software);
Convergence analysis for the heat equation, then and now.