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Dependable and Historic Computing: Essays Dedicated to Brian Randell on the Occasion of his 75th Birthday (2011)

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Jones, C. B. (Editor)
Lloyd, J. L. (Editor)

Springer
Publication Date: 2011
Physical Details: 522 pp.
Language: English
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This Festschrift volume, published in honor of Brian Randell on the occasion of his 75th birthday, contains a total of 37 refereed contributions. Two biographical papers are followed by the six invited papers that were presented at the conference 'Dependable and Historic Computing: The Randell Tales', held during April 7-8, 2011 at Newcastle University, UK. The remaining contributions are authored by former scientific colleagues of Brian Randell. The papers focus on the core of Brian Randell’s work: the development of computing science and the study of its history. Moreover, his wider interests are reflected and so the collection comprises papers on software engineering, storage fragmentation, computer architecture, programming languages and dependability. There is even a paper that echoes Randell’s love of maps. After an early career with English Electric and then with IBM in New York and California, Brian Randell joined Newcastle University. His main research has been on dependable computing in all its forms, especially reliability, safety and security aspects, and he has led several major European collaborative projects.

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Authors & Contributors
Tozzi, Christopher
Ole Pütz
E. Marshall Wilder
Jerome H. Saltzer
Vogel, William F.
Kneuper, Ralf
Journals
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
Technology and Culture
Social Studies of Science
Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publishers
IEEE
Independently published
Oxford University Press
National Academies Press
MIT Press
Concepts
History of Computing
Computer science
Computer Programming
Conference proceedings
Software
Software engineering
People
Babbage, Charles
Ulery, Dana
Dijkstra, Edsger Wybe
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
20th century, late
19th century
Places
United States
East Germany
Institutions
Peter Norton Computing Corporation
Symantec Corporation
California Institute of Technology. Jet Propulsion Laboratory
National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
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