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Oxford University Term Dates 2008–09
Michaelmas 2008
Sunday, 12 October
Saturday, 6 December
Hilary 2009
Sunday, 18 January
Saturday, 14 March
Trinity 2009
Sunday, 26 April
Saturday, 20 June
New ideas/offers of speakers/topics
Joint BCS Oxon / Chester and North Wales Branch Meeting
BD had been contacted by Paul Hulse and John Kewley (C & NW Branch) who were keen to have another joint event. They had suggested a meeting in Second Life, but details of how this could be implemented are still to be worked out.
(BD suggestion)
Speaker from the Serious Games Institute
BD had heard a programme on the Radio discussing the Serious Games Institute, and thought this might be a possible topic area.
The Serious Games Institute is based at Coventry University's Technology park, and has a particular focus on 3D collaborative multi-user environments and other games development platforms which can be harnessed for non-entertainment purposes.
see: www.seriousgamesinstitute.co.uk
(BD suggestion)
Sophos Virus Lab Visit
A visit to the Virus Lab (which could take 12–14 people at a time) with a more formal talk at Sophos. It may be possible to have two parallel groups rotating between the sub-events.
(GS suggestion)
IT Security talk
Mark Harris (Global Director of Sophos Labs) to provide a talk on the future of IT security
(GS suggestion)
Ph D Student Presentations
Four or 5 short talks by Computer Science Ph D students
(RW suggestion)
Oxford Internet Institute
This could be a good source of local speakers, and the Institute is particularly active in the social side of Computing and the Internet
(BR suggestion)
Business Risk and Decision Management
Paul Vincent had volunteered a talk.
(AW suggestion)
RDF Databases
When Tom Ilube gave his talk this year he volunteered one of his more technical colleagues to provide a talk on issues surrounding creating one of the world's largest RDF triples databases.
(AW suggestion)
Young Scientist of the Year Winner
AW noted that the winner of this year's Young Scientist of the Year was based in Oxford. This might be a good local connection.
(AW suggestion)
Identity management talk offered by OII
John Taylor had offered a talk on Identity Management, which is a current “hot topic”
see: OII
(AW suggestion)
Method Based Problem Diagnosis
SLL had been offered a talk from Advance 7. The speaker had presented before at a couple of other BCS Branches and the talk had been well received.
(SLL suggestion)
Christmas Lecturer: Raymond Flood
SLL had heard Raymond Flood on the radio, and was reminded that he was an excellent speaker, and would be a good Christmas Lecturer.
(SLL suggestion)
The Future of the Web (TL suggestion)
Personal Identity, Data Sharing and Security (TL suggestion)
Web 2.0 technology( TL suggestion)
Green Issues – outside the Data Centre (TL suggestion)
Developments in Project Management (TL suggestion)
SOA and the Enterprise (TL suggestion)
The Future of Downloadable Content (JA suggestion)
The merging of Television and Computing (JA suggestion)
Joining Up Business and IT
JB offered to talk on some of the research he had been undertaking on IT/Business alignment.
A seminar and action learning workshop
(JB suggestion)
Robotics (SG suggestion)
CERN LHC – data handling / analysis (SG suggestion)
Kevin Henney (SG suggestion)
Virtualisation (SG suggestion)
ESA (SG suggestion)
European Strategic Development of IT (SG suggestion)
www.seriousgamesinstitute.co.uk