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Past Events
2013
| Date |
Event |
5th June
18:30 - 19:30 |
Increase Business Value of IT by managing technical debt strategically
Speaker: Ali Law FBCS, IT Director at Royal London Intermediary
Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB |
1st May
18:30 - 19:30 |
Growing Fast Within Government
Speaker: Anna Shipman, Cabinet Office, Government Digital Service
Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB |
5th April
20:30 |
Sidney Michaelson Memorial Lecture at the Edinburgh International Science Festival
The Power of Quantum Computing
Lecturer: Professor Alan Woodward
Venue: Teviot Row, 13 Bristo Square, Edinburgh EH8 9AJ.
Tickets for this event must be purchased from the EISF. |
3rd April
18:30 - 19:30 |
Child Centred Computing
Speaker: Janet Read, Child Computer Interaction Group
Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB |
6th March
18:30 - 19:30 |
Information, data and metadata: why they need to be managed
Speaker: Keith Gordon
Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB |
Tuesday 12th February
19:00 - 21:00 |
Joint meeting with The IET
Real Time Optimisation
Speaker: Dr. Jack Dempsey
Venue: Apex European Hotel, 90 Haymarket Terrace, Edinburgh, EH12 5LQ |
6th February
18:30 - 19:30 |
SOLID Deconstruction
Speaker: Kevlin Henney
Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB |
2012
| Date |
Event |
| 5th December |
Why projects (still) fail, and what you can do about it
Speaker: Dr. Graham Oakes, FBCS
Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB |
Tuesday 6th November
18:45 |
BCS Edinburgh Branch AGM followed by BCS Edinburgh Branch 50th Anniversary Pub Quiz
Venue: The Beehive Inn, 18-20 Grassmarket, Edinburgh, EH1 2JU
The pub quiz will be organised in teams of 5. You’re free to come in a prearranged team however those who do not will have an excellent networking opportunity as we will help team you up with 4 other people for the quiz. To celebrate our 50th Anniversary we will be providing 50 free drinks on a first come first served basis for our members.
Both the AGM and the 50th Anniversary Pub Quiz are free of charge and open to all. No registration required - just turn up. BCS members and non-members are welcome but only BCS members will be eligible to vote at the AGM. |
| 3rd October |
What is BDD and why should I care?
Speaker: Matt Wynne
Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB |
| 5th September |
HTML5 - Blurring the boundaries of the web and native applications
Speaker: Cameron Hunter, Amazon
Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB.
Speaker's Presentation (HTML5 of course! Best viewed in Google Chrome) |
| 22nd August |
Raspberry Pi Meets Arduino
Speaker: Dr. Simon Monk.
Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB.
Speaker's Presentation (pdf) |
| 1st August |
Agile revolution or an agile evolution? A talk about Kanban and change
Speaker: Chris McDermott
Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB.
Speaker's Presentation (pdf) |
| 4th July |
Is IT making us more global or more local?
Speaker: Rashik Parmar - President, IBM Academy of Technology.
Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB |
| 6th June 2012 |
Business Patterns for Software Developers
Speaker: Allan Kelly, Software Strategy Ltd.
Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB |
| Tuesday 15th May 2012 |
The Frustrated Software Architect
Speaker: Simon Brown, founder of Coding the Architecture.
Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB
Speaker's Presentation (pdf, 32Mbytes) |
| 2nd May 2012 |
The HECToR Supercomputer & Pushing past the Petaflops Barrier
Speaker: Dr Mark Parsons, EPCC Executive Director.
Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB
Speaker's Presentation (pdf) |
| 25th April 2012 |
Demanding Professionalism
Speaker: Robert C. Martin, President and CEO Uncle Bob Consulting.
Venue: Edinburgh Training and Conference Venue, 16 St. Mary's Street, Edinburgh EH1 1SU. |
4th April 2012
20:00 - 21:30 |
Sidney Michaelson Memorial Lecture at the Edinburgh International Science Festival
Computer Animation: Where Science Meets Art
Lecturer: Ronen Barzel.
Venue: National Museum of Scotland lecture theatre, Edinburgh
Tickets for this event must be purchased from the EISF. |
| 7th March 2012 |
Blackford Analysis - From Stars to Spinout
Speaker: Ben Panter, Chief Executive of Blackford Analysis Ltd.
Venue: University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB |
Tuesday 21st February
18:30 - 19:30 |
What and why every developer needs to know about mobile development
Speaker: Matt Lacey
Venue: University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB
Joint meeting with Scottish Developers |
8th February 2012
19:00 - 21:00 |
Computers and Disability
Speakers: Martha Lester-Cribb, Sandy Kerr and Dr Alison Crerar.
Joint meeting with IET (Scotland South East)
IT Can Help presentation (pdf) | Pass It On presentation (ppsx) | Pass It On notes (pdf) |
| 1st February 2012 |
Patient Centric Health Care: An Integrated and Secure, Cloud-based, e-Health Platform
Speaker: Professor Bill Buchanan, School of Computing, Edinburgh Napier University. |
2011
| Date |
Event |
7th December
18:30 - 19:45 |
Challenging Requirements
Speaker: Gojko Adzic |
| 2nd November |
BDD and Feature Injection
Liz Keogh |
| 5th October |
Managing the Private Cloud (with Microsoft System Center 2012)
Nigel Cain, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Cloud and Datacenter Management Division |
| 14th September |
Jeepers GPars, It's All so Easily Parallel
Speaker: Russel Winder
Russel Winder's presentation (pdf) |
| 10th August |
Skyscanner story and technology past and future
SPeaker: Gareth Williams, Founder and CEO, Skyscanner |
| 13th July |
A Quantum of Computing
Speaker: Dave McMahon, Ridgian
Dave McMahon's presentation: PPTX (4.1 MB), PDF (12.8 MB). |
8th June
18:30 |
Ahead in the Cloud
Speaker: Matt Wood, Amazon Web Services
Matt Wood's presentation (pdf, 7.5 Mbytes) |
11th May
18:30 |
Agile is so old hat, all the cool kids are doing lean now
Speaker: Richard Fennell, Black Marble Ltd
Richard Fennell's presentation: PPS slide show (5.5 MB), PDF (1.5 MB). |
20th April
18:00 - 19:00 |
Sidney Michaelson Memorial Lecture at the Edinburgh International Science Festival
The Trials and Tribulations of the Silver Surfers
Alan Newell, Emeritus Professor at the School of Computing at Dundee University.
This event is free of charge, but tickets must be obtained in advance from the EISF. |
Monday 11th April
18:30 |
Discovering Startling Things from Your Version Control System
Speaker: Michael Feathers, Chief Scientist at Obtiva Corporation |
9th March
18:30 |
Developing applications for iPhone, iPad (and other iOS devices)
Speaker: Pete Goodliffe.
Pete Goodliffe's presentation: Slide show, Full PDF (43 MB), Small PDF (18 MB) |
9th February
18:30 |
Sensor and sense-ability: building systems in the face of uncertainty
Speaker: Professor Simon Dobson, School of Computer Science, University of St Andrews |
12th January
18:30 |
Green IT
Speaker: Bob Crooks, Green IT Lead at Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs.
Presentation (ppt, 5MB), Presentation (pdf, 3MB) |
2010
| Date |
Event |
8th December
18:30 |
Transforming BCS
Speaker: Elizabeth Sparrow, President BCS
CANCELLED |
Tuesday 16th November
18:30 |
Joint meeting with Edinburgh Napier Univsity
Interactive event on Computer Ethics
Speaker: Professor Simon Rogerson (De Montfort University)
Venue: Edinburgh Napier Univsity Merchiston Campus, 10 Colinton Road, Edinburgh |
10th November
18:30 |
The November Debate: e-Commerce Skills for Scotland
Presenters: Sara Dodd (Net resources Ltd) and Wendy McDougall (MD, 9-20 recruitment) |
Monday 1st November
18:30 |
Joint meeting with the BCS Young Professionals Group (YPG)
Managing your Career
Presenter: Daniel Cohen, IBM |
| Thursday 14th October |
BCS Edinburgh Branch AGM followed by ...
Invisible Interfaces
Speaker: Professor Aaron Quigley (University of St. Andrews) |
| Tuesday 7th September |
Joint Meeting with the Consultancy Specialist Group
Ian Burgess, CTO of SymetrIQ, and Alan Fowler, Isochron Ltd
Ian Burgess' presentation (pdf), Alan Fowler's presentation (pdf) |
| 11th August |
Building a smarter planet: Smarter cities
Daniel Cohen, IBM.
Presentation (ppt, 8.6 Mbytes), Presentation (pdf, 5.2 Mbytes) |
| Tuesday 13th July |
British Military Decision Making
Scott Maxwell
Presentation (pptx, 3.5 Mbytes), Presentation (pdf, 4.5 Mbytes) |
| 9th June |
Filesharing, Digital Economy Act and ACTA
David Flint, Partner, MacRoberts LLP |
| 12th May |
An Overview of Some Computer Conservation Society Projects
Christopher Burton, Computer Conservation Society |
7th April
8:00 pm |
Sidney Michaelson Memorial Lecture at the Edinburgh International Science Festival
Mind, mouse and body: designing engaging technologies
Professor Kristina Höök, Mobile Life centre, Stockholm. |
| 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
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