Background
Bowen, Jonathan Peter was born on March 14, 1956 in Oxford, England. Son of Humphry John Moule and Ursula Hill (Williams) Bowen.
(Errata, detected in Taylor's Logarithms. London: 4to, 179...)
Errata, detected in Taylor's Logarithms. London: 4to, 1792. sic 14.18.3 6 Kk Co-sine of 3398 3298 - Nautical Almanac (1832) In the list of ERRATA detected in Taylor's Logarithms, for cos. 4° 18'3", read cos. 14° 18'2". - Nautical Almanac (1833) ERRATUM ofthe ERRATUM ofthe ERRATA of TAYLOR'S Logarithms. For cos. 4° 18'3", read cos. 14° 18' 3". - Nautical Almanac (1836) In the 1820s, an Englishman named Charles Babbage designed and partly built a calculating machine originally intended for use in deriving and printing logarithmic and other tables used in the shipping industry. At that time, such tables were often inaccurate, copied carelessly, and had been instrumental in causing a number of maritime disasters. Babbage's machine, called a 'Difference Engine' because it performed its cal culations using the principle of partial differences, was intended to substantially reduce the number of errors made by humans calculating the tables. Babbage had also designed (but never built) a forerunner of the modern printer, which would also reduce the number of errors admitted during the transcription of the results. Nowadays, a system implemented to perform the function of Babbage's engine would be classed as safety-critical. That is, the failure of the system to produce correct results could result in the loss of human life, mass destruction of property (in the form of ships and cargo) as well as financial losses and loss of competitive advantage for the shipping firm.
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Bowen, Jonathan Peter was born on March 14, 1956 in Oxford, England. Son of Humphry John Moule and Ursula Hill (Williams) Bowen.
Bachelor with honors, Oxford (England) University, 1977; Master of Arts in Engineering Science, Oxford (England) University, 1981.
Software engineer Marconi Instruments, St. Albans, England, 1977-1979. Programmer Logica, London, 1979. Research assistant Imperial College, 1979-1984.
Research officer Oxford University, 1985-1989, senior research officer, 1989-1995. Lecturer University Reading, England, 1995-2000. Professor computing London South Bank University, since 2000.
Consultant Science Museum and National Museum of Photography, Film and television, London and Bradford, 1979-1984, Oxford University Press, 1987-1990. Visitor Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, California, 1983-1984. Chairman Z User Group, since 1992.
Visiting research fellow United Nations U./International Institute for Software Technology, Macau, 1999. Chairman British Computers Society Formal Aspects of Computing Specialist Group, since 2002.
(Errata, detected in Taylor's Logarithms. London: 4to, 179...)
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Fellow Royal Society Encouragement of Arts, British Computer Society. Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society (technical segment committee since 1994), Institution of Electrical Engineers (Charles Babbage Premium award 1994), Association for Computing Machinery, Freedom of the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists (London), Leander Club (Henley-on-Thames, England).
Married Jane Sarah Margaret Horsfall, July 21, 1979. Children: Alice Mary, Emma Jane.