Former fraudster turned crimefighter Tony Sales addressed guests at Oxford University’s Department for Continuing Education last week, giving academics and IT professionals cause for thought… In his lecture, Tony Sales demonstrated how a fraudster could use online information, some of it readily shared by people on their social media pages, to take over an individual’s… Read more »
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[Event Summary] Who Wants 4G?
Dr. Ana Isabel Canhoto Senior Lecturer in Marketing Oxford Brookes University Video of Presentation
[Event Summary] A Contractual Approach to Manage Security Risks When Outsourcing
The audience was pleased to welcome Dr Sam De Silva for his second visit to speak for us. He gave many interesting insights into how to negotiate a good IT outsourcing contract which is commercially a successful arrangement for both customer and outsourcing supplier. He spoke about the due diligence needed on both sides, identifying… Read more »
[Event Summary] Visit to European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
The visit to ECMWF was scheduled to start with a short introduction about ECMWF, the Computer infrastructure used at ECMWF and a guided tour to the computer hall where all the supercomputers used by ECMWF reside. Manfred Kloeppel started by introducing ECMWF as an independent intergovernmental organisation currently consisting of 37 Member and Co-Operating states.… Read more »
[Event Summary] Knowledge Management to recession-proof your ICT
Alison set the scene by promising us stories to illustrate the points she wanted to make that: data, information and personal knowledge form the main areas of an organisation’s Knowledge Management content. She discussed the costs to the organisation of information not being readily available (the story of “the lost document”), of duplication between departments… Read more »
