SIGCIS members may also be interested in the renovation of the Newlyn-Phillips machine and seminar below. best, Tilly Dr TIlly Blyth Curator of Computing and Information Science Museum ________________________________ From: Promoting discussion in the science studies community on behalf of Graeme Gooday Sent: Thu 11/4/2010 22:43 To: MERSENNE@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Seminar on the Newlyn-Phillips Machine, University of Leeds, Weds 10th November. 3-4pm "The Newlyn/Phillips Machine in the context of the Phillipsian Stabilisation Project" Speaker: Professor Robert Leeson, Stanford University. Wednesday 10th November 3p.m. to 4 p.m. Leeds University Business School, Room 1:44 (Building 19 at http://www.leeds.ac.uk/downloads/file/384/campus_map ) The Newlyn-Phillips Machine mark 1 was developed at the University of Leeds in 1949-50 by economists Walter Newlyn and Bill Phillips (LSE) and served as the prototype of the MONIAC analogue hydraulic computer. http://www.leeds.ac.uk/hpsmuseum/newlynphillips.htm <http://www.leeds.ac.uk/hpsmuseum/newlynphillips.htm> This original Newlyn-Phillips machine has recently been renovated by the University of Leeds HSTM Museum taskforce and displayed at Leeds University Business School See http://business.leeds.ac.uk/news-events/news-item/articles/2010/October/busi... Professor Robert Leeson, has taught at a variety of universities, including Stanford, Western Ontario, Murdoch and London. He is currently Campbell Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He has published widely on the history of macroeconomic thought and policy, for example editing A. W. H. Phillips: Collected Works in Contemporary Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2000), and is a regular contributor to the Australian financial and general press. Professor Graeme Gooday, Head of Department Department of Philosophy, Michael Sadler Building, University of Leeds, LEEDS, LS2 9JT, United Kingdom E-mail: g.j.n.gooday@leeds.ac.uk Phone messages: 0113 343 3274 FAX: 0113 343 3265 ________________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned on behalf of NMSI for all viruses by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For updates on all Science Museum news and events sign up to our free e-newsletter at www.sciencemuseum.org.uk This e-mail and attachments are intended for the named addressee only and are confidential. If you have received this e-mail in error please notify the sender immediately, delete the message from your computer system and destroy any copies. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not reflect the views of the National Museum of Science & Industry. This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs Email Security System.