... Debbie Bond, Dalriada school, Ballymoney (2001 Mar 30) . ... Tania Hendron, Coleraine High School, Coleraine (2003 Feb 13) . ... Michael Magee (2003 Aug 8) . ... Each year, a limited number of school students spend a few days on work experience placement at the Armagh Observatory. ... During the summer vacations, a similarly small number of university students spend three to six weeks engaged on a number of scientific projects supervised by Observatory staff. ...

The programming language FORTRAN is the principal language for scientific and technical computations. ... It has recently been carefully revised, resulting in a modern and powerful language, Fortran 90. The intent with this new standard is to make Fortran into a useful and efficient language for the scientific and technical computations also towards the end of this decade. ... This tutorial therefore contains an Appendix on the recent proposed addition to Fortran, High Performance Fortran. ...