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Branch Members Survey
In order for the committee to ensure it is providing an appropriate service to its members, we are looking for your feedback and ideas. We would be grateful if you could complete a short survey - it will only take a couple of minutes. The results of this survey will be used to inform our events programme and future activities.
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BCS South West Branch Prize for best student on a BCS-accredited course at the University of Plymouth
John Thompson, has been awarded the British Computer Society South West Branch Prize for best student on a BCS-accredited course at the University of Plymouth.
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British Computer Society South West Branch Prize for best Computer Science Graduate at Exeter University
Christopher Larcombe has been awarded the British Computer Society South West Branch Prize for best Computer Science Graduate at Exeter University. He was presented with his prize of £150 and BCS membership at the University's Graduation Ceremony by Ted Draper of the BCS.
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The PetaFlop is here
On 9th June IBM announced that the RoadRunner machine had achieved PetaFlop performance; this is 1,000,000,000,000,000 floating point operations per second. Road Runner is now officially the fastest computer on earth or ever build. The machine will be extensively discussed at the International Supercomputer Conference in Dresden next week
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