Category: Events

Past events at BCS Oxfordshire. For a list of coming events visit our Programme page.

BCS Policy Response to the Internet Safety Strategy – Green Paper

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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

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“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 »

[Event Summary] The Scientific Life of Ada Lovelace

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Professor Ursula Martin CBE of the University of Oxford gave a presentation on the scientific life of Ada Lovelace which is provided below for downloading. As seemed obvious from the discussion afterwards, it was very well received, and provided an extremely interesting insight into the life and times of Ada Lovelace. The digitisation of the… Read more »