Physicists in Barcelona’s School of Informatics Authors Jordi Fornés de Juan Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Keywords: history of physics, history of computing, Barcelona School of Informatics, computer simulation Abstract In late 1970s Spain, the professionalization of computing and the birth of the first university degrees in informatics offered opportunities to other scientific disciplines. At the time when computer specialists were beginning to produce its first publications in the scientific literature, another group, the physicists, approached the FIB looking for techniques and methods of computing, parallel programming, computing power and academic positions. A consequence of this mutual approach was the creation in 1982 of the section of physics within the department of computer technology, in which computer simulation was prominent in runtime consumption and scientific production.Key words: history of physics, history of computing, Barcelona School of Informatics, computer simulation Author Biography Jordi Fornés de Juan, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Professor col·laborador permanent del departament d'Arquitectura de Computadors de la Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.Estudiant de doctorat del Centre d'Història de la Ciència de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Downloads PDF (Català) Published 2013-07-05 Issue Vol. 5 (2012) Section Dossier: Three Looks at 20th Century Physics in Spain License The intellectual property of articles belongs to the respective authors.On submitting articles for publication to the journal Actes d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica, authors accept the following terms:Authors assign to Societat Catalana d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica (a subsidiary of Institut d’Estudis Catalans) the rights of reproduction, communication to the public and distribution of the articles submitted for publication to Actes d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica.Authors answer to Societat Catalana d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica (SCHCT) for the authorship and originality of submitted articles.Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for the reproduction of all graphic material included in articles.SCHCT declines all liability for the possible infringement of intellectual property rights by authors.The contents published in the journal, unless otherwise stated in the text or in the graphic material, are subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (by-nc-nd) 3.0 Spain licence, the complete text of which may be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/deed.en. Consequently, the general public is authorised to reproduce, distribute and communicate the work, provided that its authorship and the body publishing it are acknowledged, and that no commercial use and no derivative works are made of it.Actes d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica is not responsible for the ideas and opinions expressed by the authors of the published articles.
