HEDD – Higher Education Degree Datacheck – recording available
Dear all, sorry for the delay, the recording of our 18th November 2020 meeting is now available for those who would like to watch it. I’ve received a comment “Does this mean that my Masters Degree from the University of Facebook in “Promulgating Personal Opinion as if it were Facts”…
How safe does a driverless car have to be?
We posed the question, the recording of the webinar is available from this link, so you can make your own mind up!
How the Hub of All Things (HAT) aims to change the landscape of the data economy
Xiao gave us a very interesting talk, some of it was IPR, so he ensured the BCS were not recording it, and asked anyone who may have been recording from their computer to stop recording! However, he has kindly supplied his slides, which are available from here, and has confirmed…
National Air Traffic Services – communications services
Committee member Adrian gave us an extremely interesting talk covering Radar, telecomms and air trafic concerns. The recording of our February 2021 meeting is now available on YouTube from this link
January Meeting – Turtlestitch – a different kind of physical computing
A lively webinar was held, with a flurry of questions. For those who missed it, a recording is available from this link.
Wonders Beyond Numbers – the Christmas Lecture
For those who missed the lecture, or for whom zoom made life difficult, the promised recording of the lecture, with the questions and answers, is available on YouTube via this link, Enjoy! Johnny Ball is happy to answer all questions you may have, please feel free to email him at…
Education in User Experience (UX) Design
Vanessa explored the purpose of User Experience Design and Education, presenting examples of early technology and showing how, with the advent of the GUI (Graphical User Interface) the user experience came about, and with increasing complexity came the need to consider the user experience and their journey through a system.…
Coventry Branch AGM 2020
14 people joined in for the AGM, mostly existing committee members. The Chairman and two committee members stood down, however we welcomed one back, and two other new people joined the committee. Of those, one is a student, hence not a full BCS member. The Treasurer and Secretary were re-elected…
How we gave away our personal data – and the Apocalypse to come when we are the product
Jon Honeyball gave a very lucid talk in which he summarised how we got to where we are now, and pointed out that it is we – those of us who were/are in IT, the IT Professionals, the infrastructure people (all the way back to 1991), as the Apocolypse has…
Ongoing Impact of CoronaVirus
BCS HQ advice is to continue with virtual meetings at least until the end of the year. While we are struggling to provide you with our usual 8 open events this year, we have successfully arranged that our first 3 will be webinars. As you know, 2021 is Coventry City…