Latest news items from BCS Jersey are posted here.
Date |
Title |
Description |
| January 2008 |
BCS Jersey Chairman resigns |
Brett Sumner, chairman of the Jersey BCS
has announced that he will be moving to New Zealand in February and therefore
has resigned from the committee. Tim Bullock has kindly agreed to take over until
formal elections in May. The Jersey BCS wishes Brett and his family all the best
for the future.
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| 17 September 2007 |
Press Release
about the 50th Anniversary Lecture now available. |
Professor Nigel Shadbolt, President of the BCS, visited Jersey in July and
shared his vision of the future of the web with members at the 50th Anniversary dinner held
at the Pomme d'Or Hotel.
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| 19 August 2007 |
Jersey BCS in summer recess |
After the excitement of the web competition, Jersey BCS is now
taking a break to enjoy the summer sun(!)
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| 26 June 2007 |
Results of Schools' website design competition announced. |
In a fun, noisy and exciting ceremony held at the Jersey Arts Centre and
compered by Channel 103's Peter Mac, Professor Nigel Shadbolt, BCS president, presented the prizes
to the winners of the schools' website competition. Many fantastic prizes were awarded with the
overall winners, Mont a l'Abbe school, receiving a colour photocopier.
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| May 2007 |
BCS recognises Jersey chairman |
Congratulations to Brett Sumner, Chairman of the Jersey BCS as he is awarded his fellowship.
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| 28 January 2007 |
Membership update |
BCS Jersey membership now stands at 205.
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| 5 December 2006 |
Membership update |
BCS Jersey membership now stands at 200. A major milestone has been achieved.
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| 16 November 2006 |
2006 BCS Awards for academic endeavour |
Highlands College IT students Kurt Le Quesne, Tim Herbert and Nelson Teixeira were awarded
with Highlands College IT Curriculum Awards for academic endeavour in AVCE, BTEC First Diploma, and BTEC
National Diploma Year 1 respectively. All three awards were sponsored by BCS Jersey.
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| 14 September 2006 |
Jersey Schools Web Competition launch |
The BCS Jersey Schools Web Competition was launched today
and a special competition website has been published to explain the rules of the competition and how to
enter. More details about the launch are available in this
press release (PDF format). |
| 31 August 2006 |
Home user and small business security advice |
Home and small office users can now get advice on information security
and related subjects from a new section of the BCS UK website.
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| 14 August 2006 |
Events programme |
The BCS Jersey committee is now in summer recess and will
resume developing the events programme during September and October, with a target to produce a
new events calendar by the end of November. |
| 11 July 2006 |
Web design competition |
Chairman Brett Sumner announces BCS Jersey plans for a schools web design competition
to be launched in September. For further details see the
JEP article of 11 July 2006
in PDF format (reproduced by kind permission of the Jersey Evening Post). |
| 6 July 2006 |
Membership update |
BCS Jersey membership now stands at 192.
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| 6 June 2006 |
Membership update |
BCS Jersey membership now stands at 188. |
| 22 May 2006 |
Achievements and membership update |
Alongside other achievements during the year the Chairman of BCS Jersey,
Brett Sumner announced at the AGM that BCS Jersey membership now stands at 185. You can download the
Chairman's full
report in PDF format. |
| 9 February 2006 |
Membership update |
BCS Jersey membership now stands at 173. Just a short hop to the 200 mark
- by the end of the year? |
| 30 November 2005 |
BCS Award for academic endeavour |
Highlands College IT student Philip Quenault was presented with the 2005 Highlands College
IT Curriculum Award for academic endeavour. The award was sponsored by BCS Jersey, and the chairman
Brett Sumner said "This is a truly fantastic achievement. It's great to see such commitment and that
Philip's talents are already being put to use and contributing towards the community". |
| November 2005 |
2005 / 2006 events programme |
The outline events program for 2005/06 is now available,
but members can still influence future events by downloading this
short questionnaire and returning it
to the BCS Jersey Chairman. |
| November 2005 |
Past events |
Missed an event? Where possible we try to publish presentation slides to
provide anyone who could not attend with a flavour of the topic. Visit the past
events section to catch up on what was discussed. |
| 3 November 2005 |
Membership update |
BCS Jersey membership has now reached about 160 - more than three times the number in
November 2003. |
| 12 May 2005 |
BCS Jersey achievements |
The highlights of BCS Jersey's achievements during 2005 are highlighted in the
Chairman's annual report
which was published at the AGM held on 12 May 2005. |
| March 2005 |
ITNOW article by BCS Jersey member |
An article by BCS Jersey member Roger Bisson describing the threat to web application security from 'SQL
injection' was published in the first issue of ITNOW - the re-branded publication for BCS members.
Other BCS Jersey members who feel that they have something to contribute may want to follow this
good example. |
| 26 October 2004 |
Academic achievement for BCS Jersey member |
BCS Jersey committee member Jensen Nixon has become one of the first
three students using the BCS Professional Examination as a major stepping stone to a BSc Honours degree
through a new scheme from Southampton Institute. Read the article from
Computer Weekly for further details of how Jensen achieved his qualification. |
| 12 October 2004 |
Home PC security |
The presentation slides are now available for download. |
| 1 May 2004 |
BCS Jersey status |
The Chairman has been successful in his strategy to move
the Jersey sub-branch to an independent overseas section. On the 1 May 2004 the Jersey sub-branch
became an overseas section of the British Computer Society.- |
