Zahl Limbuwala, Liam Newcombe: Data Centre Specialist Group (DCSG)
The DCSG are raising the awareness of just how “Green” we are in the IT industry and it may not be a surprise to many that we are not particularly efficient in our use of energy. Come and find out the real facts and figures and what we as an industry and doing about it.
OneClick are sponsoring this event with wine, cheese & a demo
Committee owner: Sheila Lloyd Lyons / Robert Ward
This is a Joint Session with Chester & North Wales branch, linking Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and Daresbury Laboratory, NEWI (Wrexham) and Bangor University.
Access Grid is an advanced collaboration environment that has been described as “videoconferencing on steroids”. It can support a huge number of sites interacting simultaneously with an emphasis on effective distributed collaboration between groups. It was invented in 1997 in order to provide a human interface to the Grid and continues to be an accessible route to Grid technologies. There are over a hundred Access Grid nodes across UK academia and thousands of users worldwide. This talk will look at the technology in more detail, describe some interesting use cases in science, social science and the arts, update the audience on current developments and look to the future of Access Grid considering similar technologies such as Skype and ConferenceXP
Committee owner: Brian Day
BrianDay /07.07.2007 11:17/
Tom Ilube, Garlik CEO confirmed speaker. CV and abstract at http://www.oxon.bcs.org/program2007-8.htm#Nov
Garlik is a new monthly monitoring service that finds, tracks and monitors your personal information online.
Technical advisers include Nigel Shadbolt, Wendy Hall and Tim Berners-Lee.
Tom spoke to the BCS Financial Services SG in January 2007 (see http://www.finsig.bcs.org/events/2006-07/200701_A.htm )
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Committee owner: Adrian Walmsley
Sverker Griph, Senior Software Engineer at MetaAgility Knowledge Engineering
The fusion research environment at JET provides many IT challenges. A mission crictical real-time IT system – with high complexity and flexibility – needs to be sustained over decades, while subject to a high rate of change. These challenges are for example addressed by
• selective adoption of and longterm ownership of IT standards,
• extensive use of data driven design,
• a pervasive use of IT engineering databases and
• an in-house high performance software component architecture.
Committee owner: Sheila Lloyd Lyons
IBM has long been recognised as an interested player in virtual worlds. Roo Reynolds will share how a handful of brave IBMers first began a foray into Second Life and other virtual worlds, and how this grass-roots interest became widespread adoption within the company. What can a corporation expect from getting involved in a virtual world? What about an employee? Expect a lively tour of what's interesting in this space, together with some real-world examples of what's virtually possible.
Roo Reynolds is a Metaverse Evangelist based at IBM’s Hursley Park laboratory in the UK and is part of a team which facilitates the use of Virtual Worlds within IBM. All of this work is made all the more enjoyable thanks to a large world-wide community who are learning to collaborate and get things done in totally new ways.
He enjoys exploring and building in the metaverse that is Second Life, uploading his photos to Flickr, keeping his bookmarks on del.icio.us, updating his playlist on Last FM tracking his location on Plazes and what he is doing on Twitter, as well as indulging in any number of other bleeding-edge alpha geek social software type activities. Roo is married to an artist, who tries her hardest to keep him balanced.
As well as writing on rooreynolds.com he also contributes to eightbar.co.uk, an external IBM group blog.
Committee owner: Adrian Walmsley / Tim Lambertstock
Using a ‘Dragon’s Den’ format, we will look at a number of emerging technologies and innovative applications. A guest panel of senior industry experts and entrepreneurs will question each presenter and, at the end of the evening, the audience will be invited to vote for its favourite. Prizes will be awarded to the winners! See website for more details.
Committee Owner: Tim Lambertstock / Geoff Stone
This year's branch trip is an afternoon visit to the Defence Capability Centre at the Defence Academy in Shrivenham.
Details are still to be finalised, but we will be hearing about the use of technology by the armed forces, from small arms to tanks and aircraft.
There is also a spendid museum: it's not every day that you have a chance to climb inside an attack helicopter or armoured fighting vehicles of various kinds.
The DCC visit is always a very popular feature of our biennial Oxfordshire Schools Web Competition prizegiving event, so we are delighted that Branch members will also have the oportunity to explore the exhibits.
Spaces will be limited so we shall ask members to book online.
Committee owner: Brian Read / Adrian Walmsley
Children are now living in a fully accessible, high availability and high speed internet society.
To adapt to this new age schools must be ready to embrace IT and offer services to all of its participants – the teachers, school staff, pupils and parents.
This presentation will discuss the needs of a modern school before showing examples of how RM is embracing some of those needs with its Learning Platforms suite of products.
Mark Chamberlain, learning platform business manager at RM
Committee owner: Tim Lambertstock / Jenny Adcock