Title:

Is it 1 or 0: A look at past and future methods for physical data storage.
Speakers: Steve Hill
Date: 15th February 2011
Time: 17.30 Room open in advance (from 17.00) – meet up with society members.
Location:

The Conference Room, Manchester Museum of Science and Industry, Liverpool Road, Manchester. M3 4FP

Photograph courtesy of The National Museum of Computing

About the lecture

The physical media used for electronic data storage has gone through many transformations of size, shape and method of storage. However the most notable development has been the ever increasing density of data bits that can be stored on the media. This talk will look at the physical and technological developments that have driven this increase, and also looks forward to what we might expect in the future.

About the speaker

Steve Hill is a physicist by training who got sucked into electronics and has been fascinated by computer hardware since he did the pilot Computer Science "O" level in 1977 on an ICL 1900!

Dr Hill is a member of the Centre for Networks and Telecommunications Research (CNTR) at the University of Salford - click here for more on his work and interests.