A comprehensive examination of the almost unknown contribution of a Spanish pioneer, the engineer and mathematician Leonardo Torres Quevedo.
Speaker
Francisco A. González Redondo
Agenda
2:30pm - Welcome
5:00pm - Close
Synopsis
The history of computing is a fascinating story. The search for little known pioneers of automation, missed fathers of the computer, unfamiliar founders of computer science, or unrecognized creators of artificial intelligence, invites us to look at the past with an open mind. In this article, we provide a comprehensive examination of the almost unknown contribution of a Spanish pioneer in all those fields during the first two decades of the 20th century, the engineer and mathematician Leonardo Torres Quevedo (1852-1936).
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About the speaker
Francisco A. González Redondo
Francisco A. González Redondo holds a five years degree in Mathematics (University of Cantabria), a Doctorate in Mathematics (UPM, Madrid’s Technological University) and a Doctorate in Philosophy of Science (UCM, Madrid’s Complutense University). He is Associate Professor of History of Science at UCM’s Faculty of Education, where he was Secretary of the Academic Staff from 2001 to 2009. In 2016 the Royal Institute of Navigation awarded him the Maybourn Prize for the best presentation on the History of Navigation.
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