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History of computing

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Christopher Strachey, First-Class Citizen

Philip reviews Christopher Strachey’s influence on modern-day functional programming languages.
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Greetings to the participants at “Strachey 100”

The logician Dana Scott played a crucial part in the story of denotational semantics, working for a term with Christopher Strachey in Autumn 1969, when he created a mathematical model for the foundation of the method.
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Strachey: school master, language designer, colleague

In this panel discussion, three people who knew Christopher Strachey in different contexts talk about their memories of him.
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Semantic relationships: reducing the separation between practice and theory

Christopher Strachey believed that the gap between theory and practice was impeding the development of computing science.
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SIS, a semantics implementation system

During Peter’s DPhil studies, supervised by Christopher Strachey, he developed a prototype of a system for executing programs based on their denotational semantics.
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Strachey and the development of CPL

Chrisopher Strachey was the most significant contributor to the design and implementation of the programming language CPL.
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Strachey and the Oxford Programming Research Group

Christopher Strachey’s right-hand man at Oxford talks about Strachey’s time as the head of the Programming Research Group (PRG).
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Strachey: the Bloomsbury Years

A historian’s perspective on the earlier years of Christopher Strachey’s life. The talk covers his familial connections, his early career as a school master, and his first computing projects.

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