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Welcome to the BCS Sussex Branch 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...)

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More 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.

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Call for Speakers -- 18th November 2004
Still topical. We are, as ever, always keen to hear your suggestions for interesting topics and speakers.
Newly Revamped Website - September 2005.


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