Thursday 27 Sept: How Green is IT?

How Green is IT? Our speaker was Liam Newcombe, secretary of the BCS Data Centre Specialist Group, which is raising the awareness of just how "Green" we are in the IT industry.  Liam gave us the real facts and figures with information about what we as an industry are doing and can do about it.… Read more »

Chair’s Letter 2007

Dear Oxfordshire Branch Member, BCS Oxfordshire Branch – Chair’s Letter Hello and welcome to our Branch membership on the 50th Anniversary of the BCS. Welcome, particularly, to our new members and we look forward to seeing many of you at one of our Branch events where you can network with other members. Our attendance at… Read more »

Thursday 26 April 2007: Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails Ruby on Rails was top of Computerworld’s March list of Five Technologies You Need to Know about in 2007. Previous feedback had indicated that our members appreciate technical sessions: Jonathan Conway of New Bamboo Web Development certainly threw us in at the deep end with lots of code examples to demonstrate why… Read more »

Thursday 22 March 2007: Visit to Unipart Advanced Logistics Centre

Visit to Unipart Advanced Logistics Centre In a departure from our usual meeting location in the centre of Oxford, over 30 people travelled to Unipart’s global Head Office on the outskirts of Cowley to learn about how they are using technology, including RFID, to improve logistics processes for their customers. Unipart is one of Europe’s… Read more »

Thursday 22 February 2007: Towards secure distributed healthcare research and delivery

Towards secure distributed healthcare research and delivery Our speaker was Andrew Simpson from the Oxford University Computer Lab, who introduced the Software Engineering Programme, a joint project between the OUCL and Department for Continuing Education. The Software Engineering Programme is a part-time , post-experience programme of education: it teaches software engineering to people already in… Read more »