Annual Branch Visit This year’s branch visit was a guided tour including the Gun Shed, the Tank Shed at the Defence Academy in Shrivenham. The tour of the military vehicles and hardware has always been one of the highlights at the prizegiving for our Oxfordshire Schools Web Competition, so we were delighted that branch members… Read more »
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Thursday 13 March: What’s Hot?
What’s Hot? Three speakers presented their ideas for new technology applications: an easy to use web presence for takeaway restaurants, a communications gadget for tour groups, and an advertising-funded service providing email and web calendaring for local clubs and societies. Presenters were questioned by the audience and by our distinguished expert panellists, Dr Jan Hruska,… Read more »
Thursday 21 February: How Big Business learned to love Virtual Worlds
How Big Business learned to love Virtual Worlds For our February meeting, we took a look at virtual worlds and, in particular, Second Life. IBM has long been recognised as an interested player in virtual worlds. Roo Reynolds (right) told us how a handful of brave IBMers first began a foray into Second Life and… Read more »
Thursday 24 January: IT at JET – A Challenging Fusion Research Environment
IT at JET – A Challenging Fusion Research Environment Our January speaker, Sverker Griph, gave us a brief rundown of the history of fission and fusion, starting with the failed physics teacher, working in the Bern patent office, who published four ground-breaking papers in 1905 and introduced e=mc**2 to the world. JET was set up… Read more »
Tuesday 27 November: Identity Fraud – From Criminals to Consumers
Identity Fraud – From Criminals to Consumers We were delighted to welcome Tom Ilube as the speaker for our 2007 Christmas lecture. Tom was CIO of Egg and is now CEO of technology startup Garlik, a new company aimed at increasing consumer awareness of what information about them is publicly available, and helping to prevent… Read more »
