Programme of Meetings 1998-1999

BCS meetings are held, unless otherwise stated, at 6.30pm in the St Mary's Land, Moray House Institute of Higher Education, Holyrood Road, Edinburgh. St Mary's Land is entered from Holyrood Road, midway between St Mary's Street and St John Street. BCS talks are held in the main lecture theatre on the ground floor. A map provides details.

At meetings indicated by the refreshments will be available from 6.10pm.

Meetings which have already taken place are listed after meetings which have not yet happened.


 

30 Sep 1998 Digital Cash and Internet Trading
Rachel Willmer, Intertrader
22 Oct 1998 The Invisible Computer.
Don Norman, Nielsen Norman Group
This meeting is associated with the BCS National AGM, and tickets are required.
Contact the Branch Secretary for tickets.
Royal Museum of Scotland Lecture Theatre
4 Nov 1998 Data Protection and the new EU requirements.
Angus MacKenzie & Alison White, Shepherd & Wedderburn
25 Nov 1998 Computer Mediated Communications for Us All?
Dr. Andrew McDonald, Craigmillar Community Information Service.
9 Dec 1998 Testing the Millennium Solutions
Terry Stephens, Royal Bank of Scotland.
20 Jan 1999 Going Live with the Euro
Charles Brewer, NaMax Limited
10 Feb 1999 Voice over IP - the next telecoms revolution
Steven Hinde, HP Labs Europe.
3 Mar 1999 Inspection myths and misconceptions.
Dorothy Graham, Grove Consultants.
24 Mar 1999 The Key to Software Reuse.
Campbell McCausland, Project Technology International.
Powerpoint presentation
11 Apr 1999
3.00PM
The Sidney Michaelson Lecture
Edinburgh International Science Festival
Affective and wearable computing
Professor Rosalind Picard of MIT's Media Lab.
Tickets are required.
Contact the Branch Secretary for tickets.
Royal Museum of Scotland Lecture Theatre
14 Apr 1999
6.00PM
A View from the Crow's Nest
Nick Shelness, Chief Technology Officer, Lotus Development Corporation
Tickets are required.
Contact the Branch Secretary for tickets.
Royal Museum of Scotland Lecture Theatre
12 May 1999 Networking Cultural Multimedia: The SCRAN Project
Professor Bruce Royan, SCRAN

The meeting will be preceeded by the Branch AGM