Branch AGM, followed by Ian Hughes, Director of Feeding Edge Ltd The Annual General Meeting of the Oxfordshire Branch of BCS, which will be held on 13th October 2011 at the Oxford eResearch Centre, Keble Road. The meeting will start at 19:30, with refreshments available from 19:00. This will be followed by “Washing away cave… Read more »
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Smashing IT – Data processing at Large Hadron Collider
Dr Neil Geddes, Head of e-Science at STFC, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Venue: Oxford e-Research Centre, 6 Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3QG The Large Hadron Collider presents unique challenges to those involved in analysing the massive volume of information produced. In one year the Large Hadron Collider will generate roughly 15 petabytes (15 million gigabytes)… Read more »
Washing Away Cave Paintings – A technical evolution
Ian Hughes, Managing Director of Feeding Edge Ltd Epredator / Metaverse Evangelist / Consultant Futurologist / Technology Developer / TV Presenter / Speaker / Blogger Thursday 13 October 2011 – 7:30pm Venue: Oxford e-Research Centre, 6 Keble Road, Oxford, OX1 3QG Ian will talk about the impact of social media, gaming and virtual worlds… Read more »
[Event Summary] Extreme Parallel Computing – The Man, Machine and the Maths behind it
Dr James Anderson’s talk on Extreme Parallel Computing – The Man, Machine and the Maths behind it was well attended with many new faces. James explained the problems for computing resulting from the exceptions that occur in conventional mathematics, such as the inability to divide by zero, and put forward the alternative approach of transreal… Read more »
Extreme Parallel Computing – The Man, Machine & the Maths Behind It
Dr. James Anderson, Lecturer in Computer Science, Reading University Thursday 16th June 2011 – 7:30pm Venue: Oxford e-Research Centre, 6 Keble Road, Oxford, OX1 3QG Abstract: The operations of a total arithmetic can be applied to any numbers with the result being a number. Such arithmetics have no arithmetical exceptions so they can be… Read more »
