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Website 2008
Our 2007-08 season of public meetings has ended but next season's programme will be available shortly.Watch this space!The
aim of this website is to give as much information about the Sussex
Branch as is
relevant or useful in a way which is most easily navigated. We are
continuing to update and add to the site so keep checking us out! All
ideas
for additions and changes are welcome and where improvements can be
made, these will be acted upon. Comments, suggestions, queries, etc.
should
be directed to
the Webmaster
Our last public meeting for the current season was 14th May 2008
at the CHICHESTER Lecture Theatre, University of Sussex, 7:00 for
7:30 p.m. May 14th - The BCS Current Activities and Achievements*Rachel
Burnett, President of the
BCS Our Society has many varied activities
and current
achievements, supporting an IT profession which is vital to
today’s society.
Rachel will highlight some specific
illustrations of
these. The ongoing programme for raising professionalism in IT is
focused on
the successful application of IT for business change and for the
benefit of
society.
In our Learned Society and
Knowledge Services work, we are
developing and disseminating IT knowledge to the professional,
business,
education and research communities, users and organisations.
Our Forums each represent an area
of strategic interest
for the BCS and the IT profession, often working with other highly
regarded
academic and professional institutions, ensuring that our IT expertise
and
experience is taken into account by Government and regulatory bodies,
and
others.
These activities underpin our
continuous efforts to meet
our Royal Charter object of "promoting the study and practice of
computing
for the benefit of the public".
Rachel
Burnett
is the President of the British Computer Society. She is a solicitor
with her
own niche law practice for IT users and suppliers. As a former IT
practitioner,
Rachel worked with a number of leading organisations in the UK
as a systems analyst, in systems development and project management.
Rachel
is author of Outsourcing IT – the Legal
Aspects, published by Gower; co-author of Drafting and Negotiating
Computer
Contracts, published by Tottel, now in its second edition; and author
of the IT
Law Guides series published for the Institute of Chartered Accountants
on a
variety of topics. She is an associate lecturer with the Open
University.* Rachel's presentation was
preceded by the Sussex Branch AGM. Meeting
are held at the University of Sussex,
Brighton. (For map and directions see here.)
7:00 for 7:30 p.m. Drinks and light refreshments provided. All talks
will earn ½ CPD point. Certificates will be available.
Excellent networking opportunities.Audience:
- IT Students and Professionals
& everyone concerned with getting the best out of computer
technology, including anyone interested in joining our committee. Hope
you enjoyed our Emerging
Computer Applications Conference - anyone like us
to do another one? We had a very successful and
enjoyable Emerging
Computer Applications 2007
all-day
Conference
which was held at Sussex
University to celebrate the BCS Golden Jubilee
and the Fortieth
anniversary of the founding of the Sussex Branch. You
can see a local report on this here Following
on from this, our AGM
was held on Wednesday
May 9th.
This was very successful in spite of having no formal speaker. It was
a chance for new people to make themselves known
and influence what we
do. New blood on our
committee was what we hoped for and now we have some! (But there is
still room for more...)
the official jobsite of BCS:
For RSS feed of latest jobs click
HEREMore
information about us... Last
Season's Programme, Chairman's Report, aBaCuS
To find out more about our activities you can look at last season's
programme, Chairman's
Report and aBaCuS
our online newsletter. We also organise visits and award prizes. Best
of all come along to our meetings, have your say, even join the
committee and help to shape our future. Older News
Still topical. We are, as ever, always keen to hear your suggestions
for interesting topics and speakers.
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