Past Events

2010

Date Event
Tuesday 13th July British Military Decision Making
Scott Maxwell
9th June Filesharing, Digital Economy Act and ACTA
David Flint, Partner, MacRoberts LLP
12th May An Overview of Some Computer Conservation Society Projects
Christopher Burton, Computer Conservation Society
7th April
8:00 pm
Sidney Michaelson Memorial Lecture at the Edinburgh International Science Festival
Mind, mouse and body: designing engaging technologies
Professor Kristina Höök, Mobile Life centre, Stockholm.
10th March Work Life Balance for the IT Professional
Gillian Arnold (BCS Women Strategy Group), Alison McLaughlin (Client Director, SOPRA Group) and Kate Ho.
10th February Cloud Computing: Location, Location, Location
Duncan Johnston-Watt, CEO, Cloudsoft Corporation.
13th January 2010 Contingency Planning and the Impact of Pandemics on Computational Infrastructures
Professor Chris Johnson, University of Glasgow

2009

Date Event
9th December 2009 The Codebreakers - Enigma, Bletchley Park and the Battle of the Atlantic
Dr. Mark Baldwin
11th November 2009 The November Debate: “User Experience is the Concern of the IT Professional”
John Knight (User Experience Manager, Vodafone Ltd) and Chris Rourke (MD, UserVision).
14th October 2009 Working In A Wired World - how social media can make you and your organisation more effective
Euan Semple
22nd September 2009
2:00 pm
JANET - the first 25 years
Joint meeting with the Computer Conservation Society.
Bob Day, Roland Rosner and Shirley Wood.
9th September 2009 The state of the Scottish job market
Stuart Nicol and Luke Westendarp, Computer Futures
12th August 2009
7:00 pm
Visit to the Museum of Communication in Burntisland
8th July 2009 Grid Computing for the Large Hadron Collider
Professor Tony Doyle, University of Glasgow

Presentation (ppt, 48 Mbytes), Presentation (pdf, 22 Mbytes)

10th June 2009 Bringing A Smarter Planet to Life
Paul Fryer, Senior Project Manager, Marketing, IBM UK Ltd

Slide show (pps, 10 Mbytes) Slide show (pdf, 4.3 Mbytes)

13th May 2009 Virtual tour guide with personality
Professor Rob Pooley, Heriot-Watt University
15th April 2009
8:00 pm
Sidney Michaelson Memorial Lecture at the Edinburgh International Science Festival
A Gentle Introduction to Climate Modelling, Observing and Projections
Professor Simon Tett, Chair of Earth System Dynamics and Modelling, University of Edinburgh.
11th March 2009 Women in Technology - What's the problem?
Heather Jackson, Chief Information Officer, HBOS plc

Presentation (ppt), Pod-cast (mp3, 19 Mbytes)

11th February 2009 People, your greatest asset, your greatest vulnerability?
Nigel A. Jones, director of the Cyber Threat Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN)

Presentation (pdf)

14th January 2009 A Revival of Data Dependencies for Improving Data Quality
Professor Wenfei Fan, School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh
This is a repeat of the BCS Roger Needham Lecture 2008 by the award winner.

2008

Date Event
10th December 2008 SFIAplus
Mike Chad, Deputy chairman BCS Membership committee

Presentation (Powerpoint), Presentation (pdf)

12th November 2008. Exchange of Ideas: Agile/XP and User Experience
Adrian Williamson, People, Technology and People and Technology Consultant and Jim Williams, weeworld.com

Adrian Williamson's presentation (Powerpoint), Jim Williams' presentation (Powerpoint)

8th October 2008
7:00 pm
The Three Ghosts of Microsoft Security
Joint meeting with IET Scotland SE Local Network.
Speaker: Stephen Lamb, Microsoft UK.

Presentation, Pod-cast (mp3, 45 Mbytes)

Saturday 4th October 2008 BCS Edinburgh Branch visit to Bletchley Park

Photos from the visit

13th August 2008 Cancelled
3rd July 2008 HECToR – The New UK National High Productivity Computing Service
Dr Mark Parsons, Commercial Director, EPCC

Presentation (pdf, 3.3 MB), Pod-cast (mp3, 26 Mbytes)

11th June 2008 Visit to Edinburgh Airport Traffic Control Tower.
14th May 2008 Computer Forensics
Russell May, AccessData Corp.
16th April 2008 Visit to Edinburgh Airport Traffic Control Tower.
26th March 2008
8:00 pm
The Sidney Michaelson Memorial Lecture at the Edinburgh International Science Festival
Systems biology: what is the software of life?
Professor Muffy Calder, University of Glasgow

Presentation (PowerPoint, 4 MB), Pod-cast (mp3, 11 Mbytes)

12th March 2008 Is Privacy dead? Do we care?
Professor Anne Anderson, University of Dundee

Presentation (Powerpoint)

20th February 2008 Genetic databases: intellectual property and individual privacy
Professor Graeme Laurie, University of Edinburgh

Pod-cast (mp3, 25 Mbytes)

30th January 2008 Introduction to WiMAX, LTE and 4G Mobile Services
Colin Bendall, Motorola

Presentation (PowerPoint, 9 MB), Pod-cast (mp3, 20 Mbytes)

9th January 2008 Building the World's Biggest Next Generation Network
Tim Hubbard, Head of 21CN Technology Futures, BT

Presentation (PowerPoint), Pod-cast (mp3, 31 Mbytes)

2007

Date Event
5th December 2007 Discrete Element Modelling of Particulate Systems
John Favier, DEM Solutions
21st November 2007 Virtual Worlds - Next Step for the Internet
Professor Austin Tate, AIAI, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh

Speakers' presentation slides (PowerPoint. Warning: 65 Mbytes)

24th October 2007 Games and learning – the state of play
Chris Brannigan, Caspian Learning
10th October 2007 Massively Parallel Architectures
Colin Egan and Jason McGuiness, Department of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire

Slides (pdf)

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