| 10.30 |
Coffee |
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Morning Session - Chairman Roger Johnson, Chairman
Computer Conservation Society |
| 11.00 |
Welcome and Introduction |
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Roger Johnson |
| 11.05 |
The Origins of FORTRAN (available as
2.48MB .ppt file or
3.83MB PDF file) |
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Including the 25th Anniversary
celebrations in 1982 and followed by a screening of the
IBM film of interviews with John Backus and
colleagues - Peter Crouch, Chairman Fortran Specialist Group
An article based on this
presentation has been published in the Computer Conservation Society's
Resurrection magazine. A bibliography for the article is available on
the Contributions page |
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| 11.30 |
Early Experiences and Use of
FORTRAN |
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Bugs I Have Known and Loved - Ron Bell,
AWE Aldermaston
Using the first KDF9 FORTRAN compiler to implement APT in
1965-6 - Miles Ellis, former Convenor ISO Fortran Working
Group (available as 57KB .ppt file or
93KB PDF file)
Early experiences with FORTRAN I on IBM 704 computers
in Paris, Dusseldorf, Risley and The Hague - 1959 to 1964 -
Bill Olle (available as
222KB .ppt file or
724KB PDF file)
FORTRAN versus Algol -
David Hill, formerly MRC
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Written contributions and further
information |
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| 12.30 |
The background to the long gap between the 1977 and 1990 standards |
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The Standards Hiatus -
Miles Ellis, former Convenor ISO Fortran Working Group and
Lawrie Schonfelder, Liverpool University (available as
69KB .ppt file or
1.72MB PDF file) |
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Another view - from the 1990s |
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The
Fortran (not the foresight) saga: the light and the dark -
the late Brian Meek, King's College, London |
| 13.00 |
Lunch |
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Afternoon Session - Chairman Peter Crouch |
| 14.00 |
Implementing the Standards - including
Fortran 2003 |
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Malcolm Cohen, Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd |
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| 14.30 |
Fortran Today - some current applications for Fortran |
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Fortran - Alive and Well at AWE -
Ron Bell, AWE Aldermaston
The Met Office climate model HadSM3 and
climateprediction.net -
Michael Saunby, Met Office's Hadley Centre for Climate Change
(available as
3.77MB .ppt file or
1.14MB .PDF file) |
| 15.15 |
Tea break |
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| 15.30 |
The Future for Fortran - the current and next versions of the ISO
standard |
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The new features of Fortran 2003 -
David Muxworthy, BSI Fortran Convenor (available as
667KB .ppt file or
483KB PDF file)
What will be in Fortran 2008 -
John Reid, Convenor ISO Fortran Working Group |
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| 16.00 |
Questions and Discussion |
| 16.30 |
Close |
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Photos
taken at the meeting are available courtesy of Jane Sleightholme
and John Reid |
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David Muxworthy wrote a
report of the
meeting which was published in Fortran Forum, Vol 26, No 1,
April 2007. |
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See here for written
contributions to the meeting and further information |
