[LINK] Computer science born in Australia 70 years ago

[Marghanita da Cruz]

> Computer science born in Australia 70 years ago
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> On The Science Show with Robyn Williams
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> It was 1951 when the first conference was held in Australia dedicated 
> to computers. In the Department of Electrical Engineering at Sydney 
> University, mathematicians and physicists battled over the meaning of 
> terms such as storage, memory and program. Digital computing was 
> emerging and taking over from the ancient analogue machines where 
> physical gears grated and clunked somehow producing results. A new age 
> was being born. Historian Barbara Ainsworth takes us back to 1951, a 
> world very different from today.
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> Australia’s first computer conference
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> The Pearcey Foundation’s 2022 celebration of the 70th anniversary of 
> the first computer conference held in Australia

https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/computer-science-born-in-australia-70-years-ago/13546814

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