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This years winners

Posted: December 2nd, 2009

The BCS currently sponsors three prizes for students graduating from Innovation North – Faculty of Information & Technology. This years winners are announced here.

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Enigma Variations: A guided tour of Bletchley Park

Posted: November 23rd, 2009

The West Yorkshire branch of the BCS is currently a trip to Bletchley Park, the National Codes Centre on Saturday 20th March, 2010.

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Computer Gems

Posted: August 24th, 2009

Professor Jim Austin, Professor of Neural Computing, University of York will talk to us about some of the “gems” from his historic computer collection

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The World of Ubuntu and Open Source

Posted: August 14th, 2009

As open-source software has grown in sophistication, it has quickly become a viable alternative to the major proprietary operating systems. This presentation will give an update on the current capabilities of open source along with an insight into future developments. Matthew will discuss the issues and myths around its use in commercial and public-sector organisations, whilst also providing pointers for personal use.

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The changing landscape of cyber security and malicious software

Posted: August 12th, 2009

A preview of the September 2009 event “The changing landscape of cyber security and malicious software”

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Opening The Black Box: An Introduction to Quality Driven Development

Posted: August 11th, 2009

The slides from Tim’s presentation are now online.

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Thinking of moving on?

Posted: August 10th, 2009

A preview of the second presentation at the August 2009 meeting

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EA Tools: A BCS Enterprise Architecture SG meeting in Manchester

Posted: July 11th, 2009

News about the BCS Enterprise Architecture SG event in Manchester on July 17th.

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“The Blog isn’t over ’til the Fat Lady Sings”, a talk by Opera on The Web and mobile browsing in developing countries.

Posted: May 22nd, 2009

Joint Event with YPG (June meeting): Opera believes the Web is a force for good. As an industry leader in providing innovative and standards-compliant Web browsing, Opera Software seeks to work with the next generation of leaders and thinkers whose ideas will decide the future of the Web.

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Annual General Meeting of Branch followed by “Loyalty and CRM Systems – what do they really mean?”

Posted: May 21st, 2009

Annual General Meeting of Branch followed by “Loyalty and CRM Systems – what do they really mean?”: The evening will begin with the Annual General Meeting of the
West Yorkshire Branch of the British Computer Society. This will
be followed by a presentation by Stephen Rothwell’s Presentation.

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