Re: [Athena] Séminaire histoire de l'informatique : prochaines seances

[Isabelle Astic <isabelle.astic AT cnam.fr>]

Bonjour,

Mardi 5 novembre 2013, François Anceau finira de nous présenter :
"La  logique : du tube au transistor" ,
en salle 17.2.14, de 14h30 à 17h, au Cnam, Paris.
Il nous retracera l'évolution de la logique des tubes jusqu'aux transistors, de la technologie du silicium et la logique des transistors Planar aux circuits intégrés. Vous pouvez retrouver la première séance sur le site www.musee-informatique-numerique.fr, sous l'onglet "seminaires".
 
Francois Anceau est professeur émérite, ancien titulaire de la chaire des Techniques fondamentales de l'informatique du Cnam.


Le 19 novembre 2013, nous accueillerons Doron Swade pour une seance consacrée à Charles Babbage : "Charles Babbage's mechanical engines"

Charles Babbage's vast mechanical calculating machines rank as one of the startling achievements of the 19th century. His Difference Engines and Analytical Engines embody just about every logical principle of the modern digital computer. This presentation surveys Babbage's life and work as the first computer pioneer - his motives for designing the engines, his expectations of them, their remarkable capabilities, and the dismal fate of his failed attempts to build them. Was he an impractical dreamer or was his vision of automatic computation realistically rooted in the mechanical realities of 19th-century technology?

Dr. Doron Swade is an historian, writer, engineer and museum professional. He has had careers as an electronics design engineer, curator ofcomputing at the Science Museum in London, and later Assistant Director & Head of Collections. He is a leading authority of the life and work of Charles Babbage and he masterminded the seventeen-year project to construct the first complete Babbage Engine built to Babbage's original designs. In 2009 he was awarded and MBE for services to the history of computing.

Cette seance sera exceptionnellement en anglais.

Entree gratuite avec inscription auprès de : isabelle.astic AT cnam.fr.

Retrouvez tous ces renseignements et le plan d'acces sur l'agenda du site
www.musee-informatique-numerique.fr.

Bien cordialement
Isabelle Astic