Notice of Annual General Meeting

Notice is hereby given of the Annual General Meeting of the Oxfordshire Branch of BCS to be held on Thursday, 10 November at 7.30pm at the Oxford e-Research Centre, 6 Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3QG. Call for Nominations Nominations for the Committee are welcome and should also be sent to oxon.chair@bcs.org.uk at least 3 days… 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 »

[Event Summary] A Future in 3D

Cultural Heritage Preservation – looking to the future Dr Alexy Karenowska began her talk by describing how important our buildings are to us.  Our emotional response can be as strong  as any aesthetic consideration. A loss of our cultural heritage can be deeply wounding. Alexy gave the example of  the Old Town Market Place in… Read more »