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 »
Author Archive: BCS Oxfordshire
Annual Student Prizes 2016
Oxford Brookes The best final Year Project in a computing subject (£150 prize plus certificate) Student Name: Alicia Sykes Course Title: BSc Computer Science Project Title: “Sentiment analysis on real-time social media data”. Prize Title: BCS Prize for the Best Final Year Project University Name: Oxford Brookes University (Department of Computing and Communication Technologies) Oxford… Read more »
[Event Summary] Computing for a World Water Speed Record
[Event Summary] Scientific Supercomputing and Atlas 1, a 50 Year Story
[Event Summary] A Future in 3D
Cultural Heritage Preservation – looking to the future Dr Alexy Karenowska began her talk by describing how important our buildings are to us. Our emotional response can be as strong as any aesthetic consideration. A loss of our cultural heritage can be deeply wounding. Alexy gave the example of the Old Town Market Place in… Read more »
