Software at the Summit: Driving the World's Telescopes

Dr Alan Bridger, Head of Software Engineering at the UK ATC

Wednesday 26th February 2003, 6:30 pm

This event will be held at the Royal Observatory on Blackford Hill.

Places are limited, so please register with Mike Hurst ( mhurst@bcs.org.uk ) if you wish to come.

The UK Astronomy Technology Centre is the National Centre for the production of state of the art Astronomical technology. In this talk I will summarise the role that computing and software plays in Astronomical research and then move on to describe the work of the ATC, highlighting where the ATC's Software team contributes to the process and using examples from some recent and current projects. I will conclude the talk by looking at some of the exciting challenges ahead of us.

Dr Alan Bridger is Head of Software Engineering at the UK ATC. He has spent over 20 years involved in astronomical computing, covering a wide range of areas, and including 8 years at a major international observatory.