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Last Year 2005-06
| Subject |
Home-built flight simulator |
| Date |
Wednesday 21 September 2005 |
| Time |
19:30 for 20:00 start |
| Location |
Palmer Building |
| Speaker |
Prof Bill O'Riordan |
| Photographs of the Flight Simulator |
http://shannon.smugmug.com/gallery/528509
and
http://www.migman.com/hw/cp/O-Riordan/O-Riordan.htm and SCROLL DOWN .. |
| Abstract |
The 'Flight Simulator' project has been a result of thinking 'inside and outside the box'.
It is an exploration in complexity management utilising a very large number of embedded programmable
microcontrollers that embrace and require new and different ways of thinking when processing analogue
and nonlinear behaviour.
The articulated Flight Simulator Platform contains elements of Physics, Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering,
Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Materials and Chemistry, Networking and Communications Hardware, Psychology,
Human Interfaces and Perception, Physiology, Robotics and Autonomous Systems Software Systems, Languages and Programming.
The key to the development of this work has been to understand 'how' and to become truly multidisciplinary
and 'do it for real'. The 'Flight Simulator' project has meant getting 'back to basics' and required a process of unlearning.
Its successes have been a result of wisdom-driven thinking as knowledge and skills have been used that have been acquired
throughout Bill's working life as an engineer and scientist.
This project demonstrates very practically what is really possible if one 'steps outside the box' and can be
done in one's own home.
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| Subject |
Computer Arts |
| Date |
Wednesday 19 October 2005 |
| Time |
19:30 for 20:00 start |
| Location |
Palmer Building |
| Speaker |
Alan Sutcliffe |
| Subject |
Anti-virus |
| Date |
Wednesday 16 November 2005 |
| Time |
19:30 for 20:00 start |
| Location |
Palmer Building |
| Speaker |
Stuart Taylor |
| Affiliation |
Sophos |
| Subject |
VoIP |
| Date |
Wednesday 18 January 2006 |
| Time |
19:00 ? for 20:00 start |
| Location |
Palmer Building - Room G05 |
| Speaker |
Peter Gradwell |
| Affiliation |
Gradwell |
| Description |
Peter Gradwell is Managing Director of Gradwell dot com Limited, an
Internet Service Provider he started in 1998 during the second year of
his undergraduate degree in Software Engineering. In 2004, he converted
his company phone system and is now one of the leading providers of VoIP
services in the UK.
Starting from when we lift the receiver, Peter will follow a phone call
across the public telecoms network and onto the internet, discussing the
different types of VoIP available, the issues that surround implementing
them, including phone number provision, call quality, firewalling VoIP,
identifying the location of a VoIP subscriber and connecting a 999 call.
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| Notes |
Gradwell.com are the provider of BCS email facilities. |
| Slides |
[PDF 1.1 Mbytes] |
| Subject |
Bite Size ITIL |
| Date |
Wednesday 22 February 2006 |
| Time |
19:30 for 20:00 start |
| Location |
Palmer Building - Roo102 |
| Speaker |
John Perks |
| Synopsis |
The IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is rapidly becoming an
essential discipline for all IT support departments. ITIL is often a desired
skill on job descriptions, and is regularly quoted as a standard for
external suppliers. This talk will provide a basic overview of ITIL,
including the history of ITIL and its place in 21st century IT. The
remainder of the talk will cover the various modules of ITIL, and explain
how they build to an all-encompassing methodology.
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| Affiliation |
Partners in IT |
| Slides |
[PDF 467 Kbytes] |
| Title |
So you think you understand your business processes? |
| Subject |
Business Process Modelling |
| Date |
Wednesday 19 April 2006 |
| Time |
19:30 for 20:00 start |
| Location |
Agriculture Building |
| Speaker |
Martyn Ould |
| Affiliation |
Venice Consulting Ltd |
| Description |
It's always been important for anyone building a system to
understand the processes in the business that the system is supposed to
support. With information systems the emphasis was on information and its
flows and usage. With workflow systems the notion of 'case' was introduced,
a 'case folder' moving from desk to desk for processing. The new breed of
Business Process Management System, in which the process itself becomes a
first class object, makes a real understanding of the organisation's
processes an imperative. But traditional ways of thinking about processes
have just been ways of thinking about computer systems shoehorned into use
for business processes - and they simply aren't good enough.
Martyn Ould will describe an approach to understanding the organisation's
processes and the relationship between those processes and the
organisational structure that gets to the heart of things in business terms,
but all with rigorous underpinnings and in a way that makes a transition to
computerised process support meaningful.
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