Dear Member BCS Oxfordshire Branch – Chair’s Letter 2006/7 We, that is your Branch Committee, have thoroughly enjoyed running this year’s programme and, from the consistent number of familiar faces and good attendance at our meetings, I believe you – our members – have too. We organised a varied programme with such diverse topics as:… Read more »
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Thursday 25 May: AGM and The Semantic Web: too clever for its own good?
AGM Branch chairman Sheila Lloyd-Lyons opened the AGM by welcoming members to the meeting and thanking the committee for their support during the year. Sheila, who had taken over as branch chairman part way through the year when her predecessor, Robert Ward, found it too much to combine the role of chairman with the demands… Read more »
Thursday 27 April: Computer Games Development: Past, Present and Future
Computer Games Development: Past, Present and Future Simon Prytherch, Head of development for Empire Interactive, gave us the story of games development in the past 20 years. He had used his in depth knowledge of the industry to pick out seminal developments in the games and the hardware platforms to discuss with us. This short… Read more »
Thursday 23 March – Science Museum
Branch Visit At the morning session, our Blue Badge Guide, Geoff Marshall, put the history of computing into the context of the history of science and technology. He made it very real for us by telling us something about the personalities involved. The fundamental science of Newton led to a primitive but useful steam pump… Read more »
Thursday 23 February: Web Intelligence
Web Intelligence Nigel Shadbolt seen here during his lively and very well accepted lecture on Web Intelligence. Nigel started by reminding us of the continuing exponential growth in processing power (Moore’s law has held for four decades), and the facts that the web now has of the order of 108 users and 1010 pages of… Read more »
