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Our 2004/5 programme has now been published at http://www.oxon.bcs.org/program2004-5.htm
If you want to add any thoughts about the programme or suggestions for future years, feel free to edit this page or add comments.

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Programme for 2004/5

Possible meeting lecture subjects

Potential Visits

Courses

Programme Status Tracking 2004 - 5

Programme Topic Spreadsheet 2004 - 5 and committee meeting minutes

Programme for 2004/5

Date	Theme	Co-ordinator
Sep. 16	Computer Forensics	SLL
Oct. 14	Climate Prediction (Grid Computing)	BD
Nov. 11	A lively debate on the merits of Windows and Open Source and the future of Operating Systems A joint meeting with the OU Computer Society Speakers from Microsoft, Sun, Novell and HP (tbc) Chaired by the President of the OU Computer Society	AW/RW/TL
Dec (date tbc)	Our annual Christmas Lecture with distinguished guest speaker	GS (TC)
Jan. 27	The Past, Present and Future of Academic Networking – UKERNA, JANET and Super Janet	TL
Feb. 17	RFID Futures	BR (TL/SM)
Mar 10	Visit to Science Museum Large Objects Storage Facility – Wroughton	KD
Apr. 21	IT Law: Intellectual Property: What do I own? Copyright Infringement Notes – clarification notes added by Jennifer Pierce after her presentation	RW
May 19	AGM and Professionalism in IT – BCS VP Charles Hughes	NLS
June 23	Oxfordshire Schools Web Competition Prizegiving at Cranfield University Shrivenham Campus by invitation only	webcomp committee

Possible meeting lecture subjects

• Data Protection Act 
• Intellectual Property, SPAM Legislation, Freedom of Information
• Data Security
• Semantic Web 
• Software Engineering
• Grid Computing
• Aspect-oriented software development
• Ukerna, SuperJanet, Naming
• Web Services Choreography
• Data Storage and Backup
• Talks from BCS Award winners
• RFID tags
• Computer Crime / Forensic Computing
• Issues in moving to Linux
• Linux vs Windows
• Climate Prediction / Grid Computing
• e-Diamond Project
• Beagle 2 software
• Bayesian Statistics
• Project Management: Estimation and Controling Scope Creep
• Virtual Reality
• Building a Personal Web Site
• Networking, Broadband delivery
• Running International Businesses
• Pipex-ISP-performance-unbundling the loacal loop
• e-procurement
• Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery
• Next generation mobiles

Potential Visits

• RAF Benson/Helicopter simulators
• Amazon
• BT Research Centre
• Cranfield / Shrivenham
  • When GS, SLL and AW visited Cranfield on Fri 4th June, we learned, in passing, that Cranfield was going to host a museum of wartime electronic material which has up to now been stored at Bournemouth University.
  • Worth thinking about for a future visit?
  • We didn't go into any detail on this so I don't know what, if any, relation it has to CHiDE

Courses

• Java/XML – 4 week course

The following two items are links to working documents accessible to committee members only

Programme Status Tracking 2004 - 5

Programme Topic Spreadsheet 2004 - 5 and committee meeting minutes