Hi all, A computing history tour of Melbourne that I enjoyed is being run again. Be warned that it's all day on your feet and pretty tiring. Bianca - on my phone, please excuse my brevity. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Kerry McManus" <kerry.mcmanus@monash.edu> Date: Nov 8, 2012 9:07 AM Subject: Invitation: Computing History Tour of Melbourne (Update) To: Further to the email below, please note that the registration link has been amended to the following: https://secure.monash.edu/infotech/about/events/2012/computing-tour-form.htm... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kerry McManus <kerry.mcmanus@monash.edu> Date: 7 November 2012 14:32 Subject: Invitation: Computing History Tour of Melbourne To: Cc: Graham Farr <graham.farr@monash.edu> You are invited to join the next Computing History Tour of Melbourne, organised by the Faculty of IT at Monash University. The tour is on Sat 1 Dec 2012. This tour is dedicated to Alan Turing, whose centenary is celebrated this year. The tour is part of Alan Turing Year (http://www.turingcentenary.eu/), a worldwide programme of events. The tour also marks the 50th anniversary of computing at Monash University: the university's first computer, a Ferranti Sirius, was acquired in Nov 1962. You will see this computer on the tour. Time: start 8:45am at Caulfield campus, Monash University; end ~ 5pm, probably at University of Melbourne. The tour takes in several sites of historical interest (and several architecturally significant buildings), including: - CSIRAC, Australia's first computer and the world's fourth (and the only one of its generation still intact) - the first site of CSIRAC in Melbourne - Melbourne's first Computer Room - Melbourne's link to Charles Babbage, the originator of the concept of a computer - the site of Australia's first supercomputer - Monash's first computer - the former Melbourne Computer Centre near Albert Park. It should be an interesting day of sight-seeing and socialising as well. The plan is to have lunch at a cafe somewhere on the way. There will be a fair bit of walking and getting on and off trams. A preview and guide for the tour, including photos from the first tour, is at: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~gfarr/tour/ If you'd like to come, please register at https://secure.monash.edu/infotech/about/events/2012/computing-tour-form.html<https://secure.monash.edu/infotech/about/events/2011/computing-tour-form.html> where you can indicate your preferred date and numbers. Feel free to invite family and friends, but include them in the numbers you book for. Book early to avoid disappointment, as capacity is limited. The costs will be the necessary tram ticket and whatever you buy at the cafes. The tour itself is free. Thanks -- Graham Farr -- Kerry McManus Executive Officer Clayton School of Information Technology Monash University Ph 9905 9089 -- Kerry McManus Executive Officer Clayton School of Information Technology Monash University Ph 9905 9089