BCS Fortran Specialist Group AGM 2001 agenda

Fortran Specialist Group AGM 2001 Agenda

Annual General Meeting 2001

11.00 a.m. Wednesday 16th May, 2001
11 Mansfield Street, London W1G 9NZ
(nearest underground stations: Oxford Circus, Gt Portland St, Regent's Park)

A G E N D A

11.00

Welcome coffee and biscuits

11.15

AGM Business

(i)	Apologies for absence
(ii)	Minutes of the previous AGM (11th May 2000)
(iii)	Matters arising
(iv)	Chairman's report
(v)	Membership Secretary's report
(vi)	Treasurer's report
(vii)	Web editor's report
(viii)	BCS-FSG e-mail list
(ix)	Future activities for the Group
(x)	Election of Officers (nominations, including the name of proposer and seconder, may be made to the secretary before the meeting or may be made at the meeting itself)
(xi)	Any other business

12.30

Lunch (and continuation of future activities discussion)

(For any latecomers - this will probably be at the Dover Castle, Weymouth Mews, W1G 7EQ)

13.45

The Origins of Fortran

A showing of the IBM film about the origins of Fortran, including informal interviews with Backus and colleagues.

A copy of the film in Windows Media Video format, 320 x 240 resolution, 12.8 MB file size, can be downloaded from the website of the Computer History Museum, Mountain View CA.

On 13 June 2001 the New York Times printed an article entitled "Pioneers of the 'Fortran' Programming Language" covering the same ground.
© Copyright 2001 The New York Times Company.

14.00

Progress on the revision of Fortran 95

Report from John Reid, WG5 convenor

14.10

Fortran Performance Issues

Comparing Fortran Compilers
(Look under Fortran option on Site Plan on left hand side of home page)

John Appleyard, Polyhedron Software Ltd

Copying of Pointer Arrays

John Reid, JKR Associates

To be followed by general discussion on performance.

15.30

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