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BCS Policy & Campaign Priorities 2021-2025 – Welsh Briefing
John Higgins, the President of BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, is hosting a session for IT professionals in Wales. This will look at the key themes that BCS is working on in the coming year, including Diversity and Inclusion, Professionalism, Digital Divide and IT and NetZero. John will be joined by Tom Crick and […]
BCS Mid-Wales Programming Contest Results
The BCS Mid-Wales Programming Contest 2021 was held on Saturday June 26th. Participants had four hours to complete programming puzzles online, coordinated using the BCS Mid-Wales Discord server. Puzzles included some classical problems from the Sphere Online Judge (SPOJ) programming contest site, and some tailor-made puzzles written by the contest organisers. Over the course of four hours, all entrants managed to solve several […]
Programming Contest 2021
We are pleased to announce the second online BCS Mid-Wales Programming Contest. This is open to BCS Mid-Wales members, university students, and other interested parties. When: This will be held 12noon to 4 pm, Saturday June 26th 2021 Where: Entirely online What: This is a timed event where participants solve puzzle like problems through coding. We will have […]
Does Digital Transformation need a dose of social responsibility?
On Friday 25th June, we are pleased to co-host a talk by Dr Ian Harris, from Aberystwyth University. Ian will be talking about “Does Digital Transformation need a dose of social responsibility?” The talk is at 6.30pm on Friday 25th June 2021. The session is on Zoom. It is free and open to everyone. To […]
Developments in Robotics and Vision at Aberystwyth
We are pleased to co-host an event with the Department of Computer at Aberystwyth University on Monday 21st June at 6.30pm. This session will see a series of short talks giving an overview of the latest research and development in robotics and computer vision at Aberystwyth. This covers research topics ranging from home, land, sea, […]
Do no harm?
We are pleased to welcome Lucy Hunt to lead an interactive session exploring potential whistleblowing situations in recent media stories & presents findings from her latest research. This is on Tuesday 20th April, starting at 6.30pm. This free event is online and open to everyone. Synopsis On discovering that your team or organisation is creating […]
Research at the Interface between Computer Science and Medical Image Understanding
We are pleased to welcome Prof. Reyer Zwiggelaar to talk to us about computer aided diagnosis research related to breast and cancer research. this is on Zoom on Monday 15th March at 6.30pm. It is free to attend and open to everyone. To book your place, please register on Eventbrite. The Zoom link will be […]
Demystifying DevOps
We are pleased to welcome Craig Watson as our first speaker for 2020. He will be taking a practical look at what DevOps is and what it can mean for businesses. Location: Zoom eventDate: Monday 8th FebruaryTime: 8pm (Zoom connection open from 7.45) The event is free and open to everyone. Please see the event booking […]
5G & The Future Mobile Network
On Monday 23rd November, we are pleased to welcome Tim Curry, Principal Network Architect at BT, to talk about “5G & The Future Mobile Network”. This event is jointly organised by BCS Mid-Wales and BCS South-Wales branches. 5G has been in the news a lot recently, but what is it all about? Do we need […]
AGM 2020 and ‘IT and the fight against Covid-19’
The AGM is on Monday 19th October 2020. The formal notice was sent out to members at the start of October. We are pleased to announce the speakers for the session that follows the AGM. The theme of the sessions is “IT and the fight against Covid-19.” The AGM starts at 18:30. The talks will […]