Overview
- Commemorative volume honoring outstanding scientist
- State of the art contributions on the history of computing
- Up-to-date research
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 6875)
Part of the book sub series: Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues (LNTCS)
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Table of contents (37 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Part A: Biographical
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Part C: Contributed Papers
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About this book
This Festschrift volume, published in honor of Brian Randell on the occasion of his 75th birthday, contains a total of 37 refereed contributions. Two biographical papers are followed by the six invited papers that were presented at the conference 'Dependable and Historic Computing: The Randell Tales', held during April 7-8, 2011 at Newcastle University, UK. The remaining contributions are authored by former scientific colleagues of Brian Randell.
The papers focus on the core of Brian Randell’s work: the development of computing science and the study of its history. Moreover, his wider interests are reflected and so the collection comprises papers on software engineering, storage fragmentation, computer architecture, programming languages and dependability. There is even a paper that echoes Randell’s love of maps.
After an early career with English Electric and then with IBM in New York and California, Brian Randell joined Newcastle University. His main research has been on dependable computing in all its forms, especially reliability, safety and security aspects, and he has led several major European collaborative projects.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Dependable and Historic Computing
Book Subtitle: Essays Dedicated to Brian Randell on the Occasion of his 75th Birthday
Editors: Cliff B. Jones, John L. Lloyd
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24541-1
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag GmbH Berlin Heidelberg 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-24540-4Published: 13 October 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-24541-1Published: 24 January 2012
Series ISSN: 0302-9743
Series E-ISSN: 1611-3349
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 523
Number of Illustrations: 77 b/w illustrations, 60 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of Computing, Operating Systems, Systems and Data Security, Control Structures and Microprogramming, Software Engineering, Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters