Author Archive: Gerry

Midata or Their Data? Controlling Your Own Customer Record

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Wednesday 14 December 2011 14:00 – 17:00 Hosted by Oxford Internet Institute Location: Room 051, Computer Science Department, Wolfson Building, Parks Road, OX1 3QD. Registration: Please email your name and affiliation to events@oii.ox.ac.uk or telephone +44 (0)1865 287209 Speakers Rory Gallagher, Cabinet Office William Heath, Chairman, Mydex Anthony House, Google Georgina Nelson, Which? John Taysom,… Read more »

Christmas Lecture – Professor Heinz Wolff

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Professor Heinz Wolff Venue: Sophos plc, Abingdon OX14 3YP Professor Heinz Wolff is perhaps best known to the general public for his appearances in television series such as Young Scientist of the Year and The Great Egg Race. He is an entertaining and humorous speaker. He will carry out experiments in front of the audience… Read more »

Random Hacks of Kindness – Hacking for Humanity

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Hacking for Humanity Please join RHoK on December 3rd and 4th for a RHoK hackathon in Oxford. Throughout the weekend, we will be coding around real world problems from all over the world. RHoK has been working with subject matter experts from around the world to develop problem statements addressing real world development and humanitarian… Read more »

[Event Summary] Washing Away Cave Paintings – A technical evolution

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13th October 2011: Ian Hughes, Director, Feeding Edge Limited Following our short Annual General Meeting, Ian Hughes (known as ePredator online), Metaverse Evangelist, talked about how computer games and virtual worlds are changing the way that we look at technology and the way that we communicate in business. Ian writes an entertaining blog at www.feedingedge.co.uk/blog… Read more »

BCS Oxfordshire Branch–AGM Report 2009/2010

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Venue: e-Research Centre, Oxford University, Keble Road Date: 14 October 2010 Time: 19:40 Apologies for Absence Gerry Rohling, Athar Majed, Chris Dawe Minutes of Last Year’s AGM The notes of last years meeting had been published on the Branch web site. No comments had been received, and there were no comments at the AGM. The… Read more »