Energy in the home: are we using too much?

Neil Watson, Technical Manager, Digital Living Ltd The 26m homes in the UK account for 27% of the carbon emissions according to the 2007 Energy White Paper. Do we know where that energy is used and can we reduce it? Monitoring and automatically reducing energy usage is very topical: energy will become more expensive as… Read more »

IET Midlands Automotive Network – Crashes Reconstructed

Bob Seston and Jon Stubbs – Institute of Traffic Accident Investigators Wednesday 9th. September, 6.30pm for 7.00pm Bob and Jon have a wealth of experience in analysing the causes of road traffic accidents and can let us into insights of their methods and some of the causes – they also seem to know a lot… Read more »

BCS Wiltshire Branch – IET/Electronics Weekly 5th Annual Seminar for Programmable Systems

The BCS Wiltshire Branch is acting as ‘supporter’ to the forthcoming IET/Electronics Weekly 5th Annual Seminar for Programmable Systems to be held at the Marriott Hotel in Swindon 20-21 October 2009. As a result, BCS members are now entitled to significant discounts on the various packages available for attending the event. For further details and… Read more »

BCS Berkshire Branch – IT Efficiency Service Management in Theory and Practice (ITIL Course)

8th September 2009, 09:00-16:30 Blue Mountain Golf Centre, Wood Lane, Binfield, Berkshire, RG42 4EX Event Description John Perks Service Management has much to offer competitive businesses in improving their IT capability to meet business requirements, and to maximise the value realised from IT budgets. Service Management is often seen as a bureaucratic overhead, a perception… Read more »

Major Site Upgrade Taking Place

The Oxfordshire BCS Website is undergoing a significant rework over the next few weeks as we replace the previous XML/XSLT based system with a new Content Management System. Rest assured all the existing content will be preserved, but it will take some time to import all the pages into the new CMS system.