[Liverpool] Talk Proposals

[Tim Dobson]

Hey I've also got a talk proposal though at this point it's little more 
than statement at the moment.

I (possibly a small group us actually) would like to give a talk at 
livlug about DFEY related stuff sometime before mid july if you'd be 
interested at all?

I'll be a little more specific about what it'd be about shortly, but at 
this moment in time my hands are tied with several other things.

What do people think?

Tim

Simon Johnson wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> About a month ago I said I was planning to do a talk on simulating 
> computers in Python. Most people said there's no way I'd have that done 
> in a month and they were right!! In fact, I'm probably further away from 
> having a useful talk than I was last month :)
> 
> It turns out that as you get in to the nuts and bolts of trying to 
> simulate the circuitry of a computer using software that there is rather 
> a lot to it. As you might expect, the circuit is pretty complicated.
> 
> The upshot of this is that to try and communicate how the whole circuit 
> works in a single 40 minute slot is pretty tough. Instead I would like 
> to do two talks.
> 
> In the first talk I'm going to focus on the circuitry of the machine. 
> The outline is given below. Rather than tackling the whole circuit, I'm 
> going to focus on a few interesting parts of the circuit.
> 
>     * A brief, high-level description of the computer and its parts.
>     * The ALU - the bit that does the computation.
>     * The program counter.
>     * A simple memory circuit.
>     * An overview of the input and output devices.
> 
> At the end of the talk we'll have a little program running on the 
> machine that says: "Hello World!"
> 
> In the second talk, I'll walk through the steps required to build a 
> compiler that targets the machine. The initial plan is to make a 
> "Python-like" language that compiles down to machine code for the simple 
> computer I've put together.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Simon
> 
> 
> 
> 
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