This project is an IET/IMechE-funded robotics holiday club for 11-15 year olds living in areas of high socio-economic deprivation in Oxford. Throughout the week, participants will learn to program a BBC microbit then design and build their own robot to follow a winding path. At the end of the week, they’ll then get to take… Read more »
Category: General Interest
Oxford Raspberry Jam: Evening Flavour
A meetup and event for Raspberry Pi enthusiasts! 15th Feb 7-8.30pm in the Pod at Science Oxford Have you just found out about the Raspberry Pi at the last Oxford Raspberry Jam and want to know more? Or are you an experienced user, keen to meet like-minded people and discuss your projects? Whether you’re new… Read more »
BCS Policy Response to the Internet Safety Strategy – Green Paper
BCS are preparing an Organisational response to the Government’s ‘Internet Safety Strategy – green paper’. We are extremely keen to engage our member group community in this process. You can contribute to the BCS response by responding to the questions in the document attached below and emailing your responses to policyhub@bcs.uk, all contributions should be submitted by… Read more »
2017 Lovelace Lecture by Professor Andrew Blake, Alan Turing Institute
“Machines that learn to see” Monday 8 May 2017 6:00 – 9:30pm The Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AG BOOK HERE As part of the BCS 60th anniversary celebrations this Lovelace lecture is free of charge. Abstract Machine vision works nowadays. Machines can: navigate using vision; separate object from background; recognise a… Read more »
The Once and Future Turing (Strachey Lecture)
18:00 31st October 2016 The Sheldonian Theatre, Broad Street, Oxford In 1951, Christopher Strachey began his career in computing. He did so as a colleague of Alan Turing, who had inspired him with a ‘Utopian’ prospectus for programming. By that time, Turing had already made far-reaching and futuristic innovations, from the definition of computability and… Read more »