Author Archive: BCS Oxfordshire

2017 Lovelace Lecture by Professor Andrew Blake, Alan Turing Institute

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“Machines that learn to see” Monday 8 May 2017  6:00 – 9:30pm The Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AG BOOK HERE As part of the BCS 60th anniversary celebrations this Lovelace lecture is free of charge.  Abstract  Machine vision works nowadays. Machines can: navigate using vision; separate object from background; recognise a… Read more »

[Event Summary] The Scientific Life of Ada Lovelace

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Professor Ursula Martin CBE of the University of Oxford gave a presentation on the scientific life of Ada Lovelace which is provided below for downloading. As seemed obvious from the discussion afterwards, it was very well received, and provided an extremely interesting insight into the life and times of Ada Lovelace. The digitisation of the… Read more »

Hackfe5t

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When: 15th Dec 2016, 14:30 – 15th Dec 2016, 17:00 Where: Mansfield College, Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TF Town/City: Oxford Organiser: BCS Internet Specialist Group Price: Free Booking Link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hackfe5t-tickets-27068830601?ref=elink Further Information: Further Information BCS Internet Specialist Group event in association with KLipcorp IP Ltd Summary: Hackfe5t is a new bi-annual cyber safety event based… Read more »