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2010

Date	Event
10th March	Work Life Balance for the IT Professional Gillian Arnold (BCS Women Strategy Group), Alison McLaughlin (Client Director, SOPRA Group) and Kate Ho.
10th February	Cloud Computing: Location, Location, Location Duncan Johnston-Watt, CEO, Cloudsoft Corporation.
13th January 2010	Contingency Planning and the Impact of Pandemics on Computational Infrastructures Professor Chris Johnson, University of Glasgow

2009

Date	Event
9th December 2009	The Codebreakers - Enigma, Bletchley Park and the Battle of the Atlantic Dr. Mark Baldwin
11th November 2009	The November Debate: “User Experience is the Concern of the IT Professional” John Knight (User Experience Manager, Vodafone Ltd) and Chris Rourke (MD, UserVision).
14th October 2009	Working In A Wired World - how social media can make you and your organisation more effective Euan Semple
22nd September 2009 2:00 pm	JANET - the first 25 years Joint meeting with the Computer Conservation Society. Bob Day, Roland Rosner and Shirley Wood.
9th September 2009	The state of the Scottish job market Stuart Nicol and Luke Westendarp, Computer Futures
12th August 2009 7:00 pm	Visit to the Museum of Communication in Burntisland
8th July 2009	Grid Computing for the Large Hadron Collider Professor Tony Doyle, University of Glasgow Presentation (ppt, 48 Mbytes), Presentation (pdf, 22 Mbytes)
10th June 2009	Bringing A Smarter Planet to Life Paul Fryer, Senior Project Manager, Marketing, IBM UK Ltd Slide show (pps, 10 Mbytes) Slide show (pdf, 4.3 Mbytes)
13th May 2009	Virtual tour guide with personality Professor Rob Pooley, Heriot-Watt University
15th April 2009 8:00 pm	Sidney Michaelson Memorial Lecture at the Edinburgh International Science Festival A Gentle Introduction to Climate Modelling, Observing and Projections Professor Simon Tett, Chair of Earth System Dynamics and Modelling, University of Edinburgh.
11th March 2009	Women in Technology - What's the problem? Heather Jackson, Chief Information Officer, HBOS plc Presentation (ppt), Pod-cast (mp3, 19 Mbytes)
11th February 2009	People, your greatest asset, your greatest vulnerability? Nigel A. Jones, director of the Cyber Threat Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) Presentation (pdf)
14th January 2009	A Revival of Data Dependencies for Improving Data Quality Professor Wenfei Fan, School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh This is a repeat of the BCS Roger Needham Lecture 2008 by the award winner.

2008

Date	Event
10th December 2008	SFIAplus Mike Chad, Deputy chairman BCS Membership committee Presentation (Powerpoint), Presentation (pdf)
12th November 2008.	Exchange of Ideas: Agile/XP and User Experience Adrian Williamson, People, Technology and People and Technology Consultant and Jim Williams, weeworld.com Adrian Williamson's presentation (Powerpoint), Jim Williams' presentation (Powerpoint)
8th October 2008 7:00 pm	The Three Ghosts of Microsoft Security Joint meeting with IET Scotland SE Local Network. Speaker: Stephen Lamb, Microsoft UK. Presentation, Pod-cast (mp3, 45 Mbytes)
Saturday 4th October 2008	BCS Edinburgh Branch visit to Bletchley Park Photos from the visit
13th August 2008	Cancelled
3rd July 2008	HECToR – The New UK National High Productivity Computing Service Dr Mark Parsons, Commercial Director, EPCC Presentation (pdf, 3.3 MB), Pod-cast (mp3, 26 Mbytes)
11th June 2008	Visit to Edinburgh Airport Traffic Control Tower.
14th May 2008	Computer Forensics Russell May, AccessData Corp.
16th April 2008	Visit to Edinburgh Airport Traffic Control Tower.
26th March 2008 8:00 pm	The Sidney Michaelson Memorial Lecture at the Edinburgh International Science Festival Systems biology: what is the software of life? Professor Muffy Calder, University of Glasgow Presentation (PowerPoint, 4 MB), Pod-cast (mp3, 11 Mbytes)
12th March 2008	Is Privacy dead? Do we care? Professor Anne Anderson, University of Dundee Presentation (Powerpoint)
20th February 2008	Genetic databases: intellectual property and individual privacy Professor Graeme Laurie, University of Edinburgh Pod-cast (mp3, 25 Mbytes)
30th January 2008	Introduction to WiMAX, LTE and 4G Mobile Services Colin Bendall, Motorola Presentation (PowerPoint, 9 MB), Pod-cast (mp3, 20 Mbytes)
9th January 2008	Building the World's Biggest Next Generation Network Tim Hubbard, Head of 21CN Technology Futures, BT Presentation (PowerPoint), Pod-cast (mp3, 31 Mbytes)

2007

Date	Event
5th December 2007	Discrete Element Modelling of Particulate Systems John Favier, DEM Solutions
21st November 2007	Virtual Worlds - Next Step for the Internet Professor Austin Tate, AIAI, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh Speakers' presentation slides (PowerPoint. Warning: 65 Mbytes)
24th October 2007	Games and learning – the state of play Chris Brannigan, Caspian Learning
10th October 2007	Massively Parallel Architectures Colin Egan and Jason McGuiness, Department of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire Slides (pdf)

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