Author Archive: BCS Oxfordshire

Notice of Annual General Meeting

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Notice is hereby given of the Annual General Meeting of the Oxfordshire Branch of BCS to be held on Thursday, 10 November at 7.30pm at the Oxford e-Research Centre, 6 Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3QG. Call for Nominations Nominations for the Committee are welcome and should also be sent to oxon.chair@bcs.org.uk at least 3 days… Read more »

The Once and Future Turing (Strachey Lecture)

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18:00 31st October 2016 The Sheldonian Theatre, Broad Street, Oxford In 1951, Christopher Strachey began his career in computing. He did so as a colleague of Alan Turing, who had inspired him with a ‘Utopian’ prospectus for programming. By that time, Turing had already made far-reaching and futuristic innovations, from the definition of computability and… Read more »