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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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Health Informatics in the Southwest
Health Informatics (HI) is a rapidly growing specialty. Its cross-disciplinary nature, however, renders the subject highly challenging for practitioners. BCS has a long tradition of supporting HI. BCS Southwest is actively encouraging liaison between industry, healthcare and academia. Through such liaison, new and exciting ideas can be found as well as providing support and encouragement for existing projects.
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2008 Student Poster Competition
Winners have now been announced for the poster competition! Many thanks to all the branch members who participated in the voting process.
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Advance IT - Making the Connection
Plymouth Chamber of Commerce, with sponsorship from Microsoft, BT and the University of Plymouth, is hosting a conference for South West IT practitioners to celebrate achievements in the sector and inform future strategy for ICT across the region.
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Branch Event Video Streaming
SW Branch events will (where possible) be recorded and made available in WMV streaming video server format shorlty after each event.
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Green and Lean IT
The BCS South-West Branch have secured twenty complimentary places for a training seminar 'Green and Lean IT - how to save costs and cut carbon emissions' which is being run alongside the Low Carbon Innovation Exchange on 11 March at the City Marriott Hotel, Bristol. The exchange brings together expertise from those involved in carbon reduction projects.
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2008 Student Project Competition
Undergraduate students pursuing computing-related final year projects are invited to submit their work to a regional competition, organised by the South West Branch of the British Computer Society.
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Helping Teenagers Stay Safe in Cyberspace
The vulnerability of teenagers using the internet to communicate has been well documented but what is the best way of educating them about the potential dangers? The University of Plymouth is pioneering a new approach, helping school students to help each other.
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