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Mori, E. (2016) LEO Plaque Unveiling in London Read More »
2017
October 3rd-7th: paper presented at 4th Conference on the History and Philosophy of Computing in Brno, Czech Republic. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8771208
October 11th: presentation about Validity and Correctness in LEO I and II at the Alan Turing Institute. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/history-and-philosophy-of-programming-meeting- tickets-37255156175?
October 20th, presentation of paper about LEO at PROGRAMme: roundtable CNAM – Conservatoire national des arts et métiers, Paris https://philpapers.org/rec/PRIVAC
2018
May 16th, 2018: Seminaire HEPI: University of Lille, on the history and philosophy of computing.I presented a talk “From Academia to Business: LEO computers and Olivetti. Two case studies in the early European Computer Industry”. The other lecturer of the seminar was Pierre Mounier-Kuhn.
https://calcul.hypotheses.org/435#more-435
2019
21 February, 2019 Computer Conservation Society seminar
Olivetti and the early Italian computers
http://www.computerconservationsociety.org/lectures/2018-19/20190221.htm
??EM is going to Lille tomorrow for a seminar. Her paper may be seen here: https://programme.hypotheses.org/spring-workshop-i-machines . It is part of a 4 year planned programme and will be published in 2022.
2024
BCS (South Wales Branch) Thursday 16 May 2024, 7:00pm – 8:30pm Webinar
Lyons and the Emergence of Business Computing
LEO Computers were a series of machines designed, developed, and manufactured for business applications between 1947–1968 by the British catering firm J. Lyons & Co. and its subsidiary LEO Computers Limited.
The presentation takes the LEO Computers as a case study for understanding the emergence of business computing, aiming to analyse both how the introduction of computers affected commercial enterprises and how computer design changed because of the new requirements of business data processing. If a recording is made available the link will be also posted here.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lyons-and-the-emergence-of-business-computing-registration-881763748107
Mori, E., (2022), My LEO history PhD, Read More »
Daily Telegraph, 26th February. The article has photo of LEO to indicate size of early computers,
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/02/25/end-of-moores-law-whats-next-could-be-more-exciting/
Murgia, M. (2016) End of Moore’s Law? What’s next might be more exciting, Read More »
British Vintage Wireless Society Bulletin, Vol. 41, No. 4, pp. 10-22. The paper includes a section on LEO III, and displays a job advert dated 1957 for Computer Engineers from LEO Computers Limited. It may be referenced and read but not copied. See http://www.bvws.org.uk/publications/bulletins.php/volume41number4
Niewlsdomski, S. (2016) British transistor manufacturers in the 1950s Read More »
Anna C Page’s Blog, WorldPress.com weblog. An account of the 2010 reunion by the daughter of a LEO programmer, including photos of LEO artefacts. https://annacpage.wordpress.com/2010/04/18/leo-computer-reunion-2010/
Page, C.A. (2010) LEO Computer Reunion 2010, Read More »
The Computer Journal, Volume 8, Pages 208- 215. The paper provides a comprehensive review of UK high-level languages and includes an analysis of CLEO. See
https://academic.oup.com/comjnl/article-pdf/8/3/208/961522/080208.pdf
presented at Living Legends Hidden Histories Exhibition, Corby, May 3rd 2018. Copy of presentation can be obtained from Frank Land (f.land@lse.ac.uk) and Wej Parry, (wej@theparrys.co.uk).
Parry, W.E.J., (2018), How information was stored and processed in the LEOII computer, Read More »
Living Legends Hidden Histories Exhibition, Corby, May 3rd 2018. Copy of presentation can be obtained from Frank Land (f.land@lse.ac.uk) and Wej Parry, (wej@theparrys.co.uk).
Parry, W.E.J., (2018), John’s (John Parry) Story Read More »
an interesting account of the merger forming ICL and the discussions involving ex Leo managers, including john Pinkerton, David Caminer and John Aris in defining the New Range to succeed the ICT 1900 range and EELM System 4 range, written by one of the key members of the New Range team. Resurrection, Spring 2019, Number 87, pages 23 – 25.
https://computerconservationsociety.org/resurrection/res87.htm#e
Pasquali, V.. (2019) The Formation of ICL and the New Range Read More »