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Computing Science History Seminars

A 34-year long series of seminars on the teaching of computing science at university.

'International Seminars on the Teaching of Computing Science at University Level'

These seminars were a 34-year long series of annual four-day seminars. They were all held at Newcastle University. They brought together an invited audience of senior UK and European computing academics to hear a series of presentations from distinguished international speakers.

Each seminar concentrated on a particular theme, usually a major computer science research domain. A small group of speakers each gave one or more lectures reviewing their own and other contributions to its development.

The series arose from an initiative by the then Director of the Computing Laboratory, Professor Ewan Page, who had attended a similar, but one-off, event organised by IBM in Paris in 1968.

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