| Title: |
A Short History of Computing at the Met Office |
| Speaker: |
Chris Little |
| Date: |
Thu 19th February 2015 |
| Time: |
14:30 |
| Location: |
Fellows Library of the Science Museum, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2DD |
| And Also: |
| Date: |
Tue 20th October 2015 |
| Time: |
17:30 |
| Location: |
The Conference Centre. Manchester Museum of Science and Industry, Liverpool Road, Manchester. M3 4FP |
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About the seminar
The illustrated talk outlines the development of modern meteorology and its dependence
on computers and a global perspective, highlighting the key milestones.
The succession of computers at the Met Office, and the necessary ancillary technologies,
such as message switches, graphical output devices and a global infrastructure,
are then described, interspersed with a few personal anecdotes.
About the speaker
Chris Little first programmed on a KDF9 in a gap year before university,
trained as a mathematician and became a professional meteorologist by accident several
decades ago, and spent a lot of time programming supercomputers with various Fortrans,
first analysing and then visualising data.
He has also spent a surprising amount of time in international standardisation, projects
and collaboration.
He is currently an IT Fellow at the Met Office and co-chair of some standardisation
Working Groups in the Open Geospatial Consortium.
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