[SCC_Active_Members] British Computer Society observes Fortran's 50th anniversary

[David S. Wise]

Here is another URL to pass along:  the 3rd History of Programming  
Languages
announcement.   Paul mentions this meeting, which is scheduled
as the third HoPL in its 15-year cycle:
      http://research.ihost.com/hopl/
It is part of FCRC which *might* coincide with ACM's 60th, but this  
is the
first mention I have seen of Fortran's 50th.   (In fact, FCRC is in  
cycle also.)

Of interest to historians of computing is the whole HoPL program
(since PL is so central to computing!?)
Of interest to Fortranners is the paper on the history of HPF therein.

Feel free to pass this URL recommendation along to all your friends and
neighbors.   Happy Holidays.

Hope to see you all at FCRC in San Diego.
d

On 2006 Dec 21, , at 9:16, Paul McJones wrote:

> For some months I've been in email communication with Peter Crouch,  
> chairman of the British Computer Society's Fortran Specialist  
> Group. The Fortran SG and the Computer Conservation Society are  
> jointly organizing a meeting to celebrate "Fifty Years of Fortran"  
> on January 25th, 2007, in London. Peter tells me they currently  
> have 44 attendees, including 11 speakers. Here's the announcement:
>
> http://www.fortran.bcs.org/2007/jubileeprog.php
>
> Also, attached to this message is a two-page article by Peter from  
> the November 2006 issue of ITNOW, the BCS membership magazine that  
> gives a nice summary of Fortran's history and current status  
> (Fortran 2003 was published by ISO/IEC in November 2004). The  
> references include "The Fortran Collection at the Computer History  
> Museum" (specifically, the SCC), and Peter has used these materials  
> in preparing his talk for the January meeting.
>
> Peter asked me, "Do you know if anything is going to happen in the  
> US in 2007 to commemorate the 50th Anniversary?" Unfortunately in  
> all my discussions with Fortran standards people, History of  
> Programming Languages Conference people, IBM people, and CHM  
> people, I know of no such effort.  How about you?
>
>
> Paul