Global Scholars’ Symposium: keynote speech by Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare

  • June 21, 2010

The third annual Global Scholars Symposium was host by Gates Cambridge Scholars on 11 and 12 June at Cambridge University. One of the highlights of the symposium was a keynote speech by Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare entitled ‘My fifty years in computing’, which is reocrded here.

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