I thought you might be interested in the lineup for this year's ACCU fundraising day for Bletchley Park and The National Museum of Computing. We have yet another amazing lineup this year so if you could spread the word I'd really appreciate it.
-Barb ------------------------- NEWS RELEASE 25 October 2011 CODEBREAKING, CRYPTOGRAPHY AND PROGRAMMING: HEAVYWEIGHT SPEAKER LINE-UP ANNOUNCED FOR THIRD ANNUAL ACCU* CONFERENCE Saturday 12 November 2011 tickets available now: ALL PROCEEDS TO the BLETCHLEY PARK TRUST AND THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF COMPUTING The Bletchley Park Trust is delighted to announce that the keynote speaker for the Annual ACCU Conference 2011 will be prestigious 2006 Turing Award winner, Dr Frances Allen. Dr Allen will be giving away the secrets behind the codebreaking language and system she developed for the National Security Agency in the 1950's and 1960's. Amongst the other distinguished speakers is world-renowned cryptography expert, Professor Fred Piper who will be discussing how cryptography has changed since 1945. Eminent computing veteran and Bletchley Park authority Dr Brian Oakley will be talking about language, codebreaking and Turing’s algorithmic approach to it. Dr David Hartley, distinguished computer scientist, has a talk entitled “CPL – The Great Grandfather of C”. Last year's speakers were Bruce Schneier, Whitfield Diffie, Andy Clark and David Kahn and raised badly-needed funds for the Bletchley Park Trust and The National Museum of Computing. - ENDS - * ACCU is the Association of C and C++ Users Editor’s Information Ticket Prices: ACCU Member £85 ACCU Non-Member £100 Student £85 The delegate fees include the following: Full day of lectures at Bletchley Park, from guests speakers Sandwich Lunch and Refreshments throughout the day Tour of Bletchley Park Please note that the delegates fees are VAT exempt. To full details and to register for this event please visit http://www.regonline.co.uk/builder/site/default.aspx?EventID=990848 Contact Details Tel: +44 (0)1608 659900 Email: [email protected] <javascript:;>
