The Material of the Digital: Preserving & Interpreting the History of Computing

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• Tilly Blyth, Science Museum
• Thursday 20 May 2010, 18:30-20:00
• Lecture Theatre 1, Cambridge University Computer Laboratory, J J Thompson Avenue, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Neil Johnson.

How should museums preserve and display our computing history and culture? The interpretation of computing raises a number of issues: more than any other technology, computers impact on all our lives, though few of us really understand how they actually work; museums have traditionally dealt with material culture, but increasingly computers are about ephemeral applications, software and data; computers are the ultimate general purpose machine, but it’s their ‘congealed social relations’ that really brings them to life to audiences. This talk will unpack some of issues surrounding the conservation and interpretation of computing at the Science Museum, London.

This talk is part of the IET Cambridge Network - Lectures series.

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