50 Years of Scientific Computation in Oxford
Dr David Mayers ( Oxford University )
- 14:00 16th October 2008 ( week 1, Michaelmas Term 2008 )Lecture Theatre A
This is not intended to be a systematic History, but a selection of highlights, with some digressions, including: The early days of the Computing Lab; How the coming of the Computer changed some of the ways we do Computation; A problem from the Study Groups; Influence of the computing environment (hardware and software); Convergence analysis for the heat equation, then and now.