Celebrating 70 years of Fortran

  • Joe Wallwork
  • Last Updated: June 2026

Celebrating 70 years of Fortran

Fortran has been supporting scientific software engineering and critical infrastructure for 70 years. To celebrate this, we will be holding a 'birthday party' on 1 December 2026 at the Science and Industry Museum, in Manchester, UK. The timing was chosen to align with Computing Insights UK (CIUK) - 'the UK's premier conference for HPC and associated research' - which will be held a short walk away between 2-4 December 2026.

Outline

The birthday party event will have three parts:

  • 10:00-13:00 - Small community meetings
  • 14:30-18:15 - Main workshop (with provisional programme) in the museum conference suite
  • 18:15-20:00 - Drinks reception in the exhibition hall by the Baby computer, which will be demonstrated

Registration

Attendance will be free of charge, thanks to the support of our funders and sponsors including Computational Abilities and Knowledge Exchange (CAKE) and the Institute of Computing for Climate Science (ICCS).

A full registration form will be released in due course. In the meantime, register your interest by completing the 'save the date' form.

Whilst it will be a primarily in-person event, there will also be an option to join remotely via Zoom.

More information

If you have any questions about the event, please contact lead organiser Joe Wallwork at jw2423[AT]cam.ac.uk.