Meetings qualify for BCS CPD credit. Non members are welcome to all
meetings.
| Date |
Topic |
Speaker |
| 9 October 2002 |
The role of GIS in dealing with
Foot and Mouth in Scotland |
Martin Johnston, Scottish Executive |
| 30 October |
Linux - Managing Large
Installations
Speaker's Presentation Slides (pdf) |
Jim Jarvie, Central Scotland Police |
| 20 November |
Project Management Techniques
followed by a discussion on this subject
Joint meeting with BCS
Proms-G Scotland. |
Pam Chambers, Capita Education Services
Jamie Thin,
Mike Chad & Frank Waterworth, PROMS-G Scotland |
| 11 December |
Voice
Synthesis
Christmas Refreshments served at 6:15 pm |
Paul Taylor, Rhetorical Systems |
| 15 January 2003 |
MEETING CANCELLED
Delivering Business Performance Improvement Through IS |
Chris Wakerley & John Dakin, Cobalt Group |
| 5 February |
Grid Computing
Speaker's Presentation Slides
(pdf, 1892 kb) |
Dr Mark Parsons, EPCC |
| 26 February |
Software at the Summit: Driving
the World's Telescopes
Speaker's Presentation (.ppt, 25Mbytes) |
Dr Alan Bridger, Royal Observatory. |
| 26 March |
Unlocking Customer Value
Through CRM
Speaker's Presentation Slides (zipped .ppt, 839kb) |
Gary Brown, Solution Architect, xansa |
13 April
(Sunday) 2:00 pm |
The Sidney Michaelson
Memorial Lecture
Convicted by Computer
Royal Museum, Chambers Street, Edinburgh
This event is part of the
Edinburgh International Science Festival. Admission is by ticket only - see
here for details. |
Clive Carmichael-Jones, Vogon International |
14 May 2003
6:00 pm |
BCS
Edinburgh Branch AGM
followed by refreshments at 6:15 pm |
|
14 May 2003
6:30 pm |
Debate: "This house believes
competition from Open Source software benefits the entire software industry". |
Mark Greatorex, .NET Developer Director for Microsoft UK
and
Stephen Tweedie, Linux developer |
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