Computer Conservation Society

 

Events

The Society organises a regular programme of talks and seminars between September and May each year. Our meetings are held in Manchester and in London.

  • Manchester meetings are organised by the North West Group of the CCS, and are usually held in the Conference room at the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry, starting at 17.30. (Room open from 17.00)
  • London meetings are usually held in the Director’s Suite of the Science Museum, starting at 14:30. (Room open from 14.00)

Lists and details of previous events can be viewed here:

Date/Location     Event Title   Speakers
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Thu 15th Sep 2011 14:30
Event Postponed
Was to be: Centering the computer in the business of banking: Barclays 1954-1974.
  The reason is to respect one of the founders of the CCS - Tony Sale - see CCS news item. The funeral is on that day.
London          

Tue 20th Sep 2011 17:30
System Architecture   John Eaton and Roger Poole
Manchester          

Tue 18th Oct 2011 17:30
Early Silicon Compilers   John Vernon
Manchester          

Thu 20th Oct 2011 14:00
CCS Annual General Meeting 2011    
London     Followed by ...    
Thu 20th Oct 2011 14:30
A Tribute to Sir Maurice Wilkes   David Hartley and others
London          

Tue 15th Nov 2011 17:30
The Development of Robotics   John Gray
Manchester          

Thu 17th Nov 2011 14:30
The Emergence of Computer Science   Pierre Mounier-Kuhn
London          

Thu 15th Dec 2011 14:30
Historic Computer Films   CCS Panel
London          

Tue 17th Jan 2012 17:30
Historic Computer Films   Chris Burton and Kevin Murrell
Manchester          

Thu 19th Jan 2012 14:30
Misplaced Ingenuity, some dead ends in Computer History   Hamish Carmichael
London          

Thu 16th Feb 2012 14:30
Bloodhound on my trail: building the Ferranti Argus process control computer.   Jonathan Aylen
London          

Tue 21st Feb 2012 17:30
Hartree's Differential Analyser   Charles Lindsey
Manchester          

Thu 15th Mar 2012 14:30
Turing and his Contemporaries   Simon Lavington and Others
London          

Tue 20th Mar 2012 17:30
EDSAC Replica Project   Chris Burton
Manchester          

Thu 19th Apr 2012 14:30
Centring the Computer in the Business of Banking: Barclays Bank and Technological Change, 1954–1974.    Ian Martin & David Parsons
London          

Thu 17th May 2012 14:30
Turing   Brian Carpenter
London