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| The 13th
May 2011 RTL TV brought during the evening news a reportage for the 70th
anniversary of the ZUSE Z3 computer (based on electromechanical relays).
The 11th May, a journalist and camera man from RTL TV visited the
Computarium to take some video shots and make a short interview with F.
Massen. You can find the sequence here (Luxembourg language spoken!) (Thx to R. Heinz for the link; source RTL.lu) |
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| Fondation
Universitaire Notre Dame de la Paix (FUNDP),
Namur, Belgium The Computer Science department of this private university held a colloquium the 10 Dec 2010 to commemorate the 40 years of the start of this department. The theme was "Programmer: un passé pour l'avenir?" (Programming: the past for the future?). Click on the link for the abstracts. Colette Heirendt, Francis and Florence Massen participated, and were glad to hear 6 exposés on very different subjects: A long history of programming (M. d'Udekem-Gevers), The first Belgium computer built by Philips/MBLE (J. Loeckx), Algol and Cobol teaching at the start of the computer department (F. Bodart), Dijkstra and structural programming (P.A. de Marnette), Prolog and the Japanese 5th generation computers (Y. Willems), The history of concurrent programming (J.M. Jacquet). Even if some exposés were sometimes a bit dense, we much enjoyed this interesting meeting, whose principal organizer was Marie d'Udekem-Gevers, to whom we talked briefly about our Computarium. |
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| HNF (Heinz Nixdorf Museums Forum): I spent a weekend with C.H in Paderborn, visiting this outstanding, greatest museum of computers and related machinery. An album with selected pictures will follow asap. Just to wet your appetite, click here for a video of Shannon's "Ultimate Machine", a working rebuilt being shown at an special exhibition devoted to Claude E. Shannon |
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| VIDEO
(7 minutes, 85MB, mp4) of the "making of" the extremely
complicated Computarium showcase by Menuiserie Kraemer. |
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| Album
with photos from a visit of the Arithmeum Bonn (2006, Colette,
Florence and Francis Massen)
Photos by F. Massen taken with a smartphone, low quality pictures. |
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last edited: 24 May 2011