50 years of Advanced Programming - an Anniversary Seminar on Algol 60

This seminar marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of the ALGOL 60 report. Its significance and influence will be presented and discussed by a panel of distinguished speakers. Contributions for this anniversary from several of the pioneers in this field will be included. The talks will be followed by discussion - till 5pm
This is a joint meeting of the Computer Conservation Society and the BCS Advanced Programming Specialist Group.
More details of the programme will be given before the event on the website of the BCS Advanced Group - see the page for the APG January event

About the speakers

The distinguished speakers have been active in this field for many years, and have made major contributions to computing, including many publications.

Background

For more about ALGOL 60, click see a comprehensive Wikipedia entry.

For more about the Advance programming Group see the APG entry on the BCS website.

[Heater-v..]

Amazing event. Back in 1976 as a first year Physics undergrad I spent far too much time learning ALGOL 68 and running my programming experiments as punch card batch jobs on an ICL 1900 at the University of Kent at Canterbury. Later at my first real job at Marconi Research I had to program a new machine in assembler, ALGOL came in a very useful way to write out what we wanted, then manually "compiling" that to assembler. Having used far too many languages professionally since I always had fond memories of ALGOL. Today we have Rust, which to my mind continues the ideals of ALGOL far better than anything we have had since ALGOL.