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Lecturers: Mr N. Bailey, Prof. M.V. Wilkes, Prof. R.M. Needham and
Prof. A.J.R.G. Milner
No. of lectures: 4
- Software quality.
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Differences between programming to solve problems set as course
work and programming for a living. Clients and their requirements.
Design, specification and management. Ethical considerations.
Waterfall diagrams, test procedures, monitoring progress. Metrics.
- The story of the computer.
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An illustrated history of the computer from the ENIAC and EDSAC of
the 1940s to the Personal Computers of the present day. The
development of processors, memory technology, disc drives and user
interfaces.
- Design choices and outcomes.
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A look at the Grapevine messaging system.
- What does the global computer compute?
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We and our computers are all connected, forming a global computer. It
has no predefined task; but how does it behave? Computer Science has
to be enough of a science to understand this organism, which is just
as complex as (for example) an ecology. What sort of theory can help?
Christine Northeast
Sat Sep 27 09:31:14 BST 1997