The eventbrite booking site is now ready for our Christmas lecture “Can batteries transport us to a greener future”, please check out https://coventry.bcs.org/can-batteries-transport-us-to-a-greener-future-christmas-lecture/ for full details and to find the link to the booking site. This lecture is in association with the IET and IMA. (Please click ‘continue reading’ to click…
Do you like our meetings? Would you like to be kept informed/reminded of upcoming meetings, but you are not a BCS member? Simply email coventrynonmem@lists.bcs.org.uk with with join in the subject line, and you will then get emails from Branch Secretary about future meetings, and occasionally hot news from the…
Our first meeting of the 2019-2020 season kicked off with James Geddes of Geek.Zone/01 (the first instance of Geek.Zone in Coventry) postulating of Geek.Zone/∞, i.e. this was one of many Geek Zones. The meeting was very interactive with us providing input through our phones to several questionaires and surveys, an…
At the BCS Coventry AGM in spring 2019, Peter Mason was elected Chairman, taking over from Irene Glendinning, who had fulfilled this role for a number of years. The Branch thanks Irene Glendinning for her years of service as chairman.
As you may know in 2017 was the sixty year anniversary for the founding of BCS. As part of the year-long celebrations member groups were invited to nominate individuals to attend a special lunch at St James’s Palace, hosted by HRH The Duke of Kent. I was nominated by my…
Talk Cancelled due to speaker illness. On the 21st of February we’re delighted to have Mariana Morris give a talk about how User Experience is teamwork. This talk provides practical UX techniques and tools to integrate UX in the product development and get everyone in the project team contributing to…
BCS Coventry are delighted to announce an additional event to this years programme. On the 7th of March, we’ll have a talk by Carol Long on the upcoming changes to the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR). More information is available on the Programme 2017-18 pages.
Its getting closer to Christmas and BCS Coventry, in conjunction with the IET and IMA are holding their annual Christmas Lecture. On the 13th of December, you are invited the presentation The Influence of Perception given by Orla Murphy. After the talk there is a buffet. The event is free…
The next BCS Coventry meeting on the 15th of November is a joint meeting with the BCS Green IT Specialist Group. It focuses on an initiative to raise awareness of the Internet of Things and the issues this new technology raises. Bob Crooks will provide some background on this important…
The IET are organising an event on the 8th of November that is likely to be of interest to BCS members in this area. Its Machine Learning in Computer Vision with Dr Bhalerao, Associate Professor in Computer Science at Warwick. His current research interests are in computer assisted medical diagnosis,…