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Strachey and the Oxford Programming Research Group

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Strachey 100: an Oxford Computing Pioneer
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Christopher Strachey’s right-hand man at Oxford talks about Strachey’s time as the head of the Programming Research Group (PRG).
The talk covers the foundation of the PRG and the research performed at the (PRG), with an emphasis on the equal importance of theoretical and practical work.




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Strachey 100: an Oxford Computing Pioneer
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Joe Stoy
Keywords
History of computing
denotational semantics
programming languages
operating systems
Department: Department of Computer Science
Date Added: 26/06/2017
Duration: 00:33:45

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