Dear SIGCIS Members, I am delighted to announce that have a scheduled talk - Title- Percy Ludgate (1883 -1922) - Charles Babbage’s First Successor - *A virtual talk by Professor Brian Randell* *Information:* Charles Babbage and Percy Ludgate were pioneers in computing, developing the first "analytical engines" - yet their stories couldn’t be more different. Babbage was a mathematician and inventor who received many thousands of pounds from the British government to help fund his work on a difference engine before he went on to design his analytical engine. Ludgate was a clerk to a corn merchant and an amateur scientist who designed his engine during his spare time, largely unaware of Babbage’s project, before publishing an account of his design in 1909. Brian Randell - who is Emeritus Professor at Newcastle University’s School of Computing - stumbled across Ludgate's story and released a research paper on it in 1971. Since then almost nothing further had been found out about Ludgate or his incredible achievement – until recently. In this TNMOC talk, Professor Randell will describe the findings of a project he’s been participating in, that is led by Dr. Brian Coghlan of Trinity College Dublin, into the life and work of this amazing and little-known successor of the famous Babbage. The talk will last about an hour.Here is a link for your community to join, please note there are a few ticket options for those that may already be supporters of TNMOC *https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/145546999995 <https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/145546999995>* Kind regards Jacqui Garrad Museum Director The National Museum of Computing Tel: 01908 374708 Mobile: 07807 024455