[LINK] Computer science born in Australia 70 years ago

Antony Barry antonybbarry at me.com
Sun Sep 19 13:02:03 AEST 2021


On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 3:45 PM Marghanita da Cruz <marghanita at ramin.com.au>
wrote:

> > Computer science born in Australia 70 years ago
> >
> > On The Science Show with Robyn Williams
> >
> >
> > Download Computer science born in Australia 70 years ago (23.80 MB)
> > Download 23.80 MB
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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,


And 10 years later, also at Sydney University I wrote my first program (No
historical significance except for me!). It was on Silliac which was Sydney
University's version of Illiac 1, the University of Illinois first
computer. The program was an assignment to sum an arithmetic sequence.

Tony



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