BCS Edinburgh Branch meetings are held, unless otherwise stated, at 6.30pm in the Apex International Hotel, Grassmarket, Edinburgh. The hotel is marked with a red circle on this map.
A full programme of meetings is planned for the coming year, and full details are provided below.
Meetings which have already taken place are listed after meetings which have not yet happened.
Other Scottish Branch meetings are listed at BCSinScotland.
6PM 9 May 2001 |
Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre
Professor David Hartley, CCDC |
The Branch AGM will precede the lecture, and
start at approximately 6:30PM PDF poster |
4 Oct 2000 |
Future Networking
Martin Cook, Cisco |
PDF poster |
1 Nov 2000 |
From Light-Years to Terabytes: Astronomy and Computing
Alan Bridger, UK Astronomy Technology Centre |
PDF poster
Power point slides (26 Mbytes) |
22 Nov 2000 |
Evolutionary Computing
Ben Paechter, Napier University |
PDF poster |
5 Dec 2000 Tuesday |
The Classification of Single Malt Whiskies
David Wishart Joint talk with Royal Statistical Society |
Tuesday |
17 Jan 2001 |
Balancing business needs with Data Protection
requirements
Sheelagh Keddie, The Data Compliance Centre |
PDF poster
Powerpoint presentation |
15 Feb 2001 Thursday |
Wireless Communication --- The Martini Effect
(Any Time, Any Place, Anywhere!)
Anthony Harford, Mobile Communications Consultant, BT Cellnet |
Thursday, refreshments from 6PM PDF poster Powerpoint presentation |
14 Mar 2001 6:45PM Venue Changed to Apex European Hotel, Haymarket |
Quantum Computation (the most massively parallel processor?)
Dr J.F. Snowdon, Department of Physics, Heriot-Watt University |
Apex European Hotel, 90 Haymarket Terrace map PDF poster |
All day 7 Apr 2001 The Sidney Michaelson Memorial Symposium |
Artificial Intelligence: Feats and Frontiers
Keynote speakers: Prof. Marvin Minsky, MIT Prof. Mike Brady, Oxford University |
Pollock Halls, Edinburgh University
PDF poster Review |
15 Apr 2001 3.00PM Royal Museum of Scotland Lecture Theatre |
Edinburgh International Science Festival Handling the Human Genome Tim Hubbard, Sanger Centre Tickets are required. Contact the Branch Secretary for tickets. |
Sunday
Royal Museum of Scotland Lecture Theatre PDF poster |