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 »

2007 Oxfordshire Schools Web Competition Downloads

Competition Poster A3 competition poster (921KB) A3 competition poster (Hi-Res) (2885KB) Competitors’ Pack Welcome letter, rules and marking scheme(695KB) as posted to schools who signed up for the 2007 competition Letters to Schools October 2006(110KB) Competition Launch January 2007(155KB) second letter

BCS Oxfordshire Branch Christmas Lecture Thursday 7 December 2006: The Machine That Enjoys Christmas: Whither Machine Consciousness?

The Machine That Enjoys Christmas: Whither Machine Consciousness? Our speaker was Igor Aleksander (right), Emeritus Professor in the Intelligent Systems and Networks Group at Imperial College. Igor gave us a great evening. His talk was stimulating, thought provoking and funny. He used lots of pictorial aids to express his ideas. He started by discussing what… Read more »