Symposium on Modern Computing Methods
A. Ross Curtis · ITNOW · 1961
To mark the publication of the new and completely revised edition of the book Modern Computing Methods (NPL Notes on Applied Science No. 16) a symposium was held at the National Physical Laboratory on Wednesday, 14 June. The invited audience of over two hundred people consisted mainly of lecturing staff from Technical Colleges, staff of University Computing Laboratories and representatives of other major computing centres. The objective was to discuss the use of the book for courses in numerical analysis at Technical Colleges and Universities. The proceedings comprised four sessions, the first part of each consisting of short lectures in which the various authors gave reasons for their particular choice of material and outlined the relative importance of each topic in practical applications. Each session concluded with a period for questions and discussion. The chair was taken by Dr. E. T. Goodwin, Superintendent of Mathematics Division, NPL, who extended a brief word of welcome to those present and stressed that the needs of those teaching numerical analysis should be borne in mind during the discussion.