Dr Chris Yapp delivered our 2010 Christmas Lecture. Chris is a technology and policy futurologist who has been in the IT industry since 1980. His roles have spanned Honeywell, ICL, HP, Microsoft and Capgemini. He has worked extensively across the public sector, in Local Government, Education, Health and Creative Industries. Chris’s interests lie in scenario… Read more »
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A Message from Science Oxford
A MESSAGE FROM SCIENCE OXFORD This is a reprint of an email distributed by Science Oxford to its subscribers we thought may be of interest to other BCS Oxfordshire members. Dear Newsletter Subscriber Science Oxford (in the form of our parent charity, The Oxford Trust) has been at the heart of science and enterprise in… Read more »
Future Technology – Christmas Lecture
Chris Yapp, Technology Futurist Thursday 2nd December 2010 – 7:30pm Venue: Rewley House,Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JA A special Christmas event taking a look at what the future holds in store. Chris will discuss the future implications of significant technology issues, such as cloud computing, and evaluate the hype versus reality of some past developments.… Read more »
openMIC #9 The Mobile Innovation Camp
openMIC’s next un-conference event for discussion, debate and the development of new mobile applications & mobile web services is on Thursday 2nd December in Oxford. Register Here 9th in a series of un-conference for discussion, debate and development new mobile applications and mobile web services. A DCKTN event. openMIC’s un-conference event for discussion, debate and… Read more »
[Event Summary] Digital Britain
Adrian Wooster presented a very compelling presentation on the present and future expectation of a Digital Britain. This covered the plans for next generation broadband in general, and Oxfordshire in particular; sewing the market together as organisations other than BT start to deploy networks; and the capabilities of next generation broadband and the new opportunities… Read more »