Despite the jeremiad feel of the year 1984, it marked a key milestone for BCS. This was when the royal charter, now hitting its 40th anniversary, was granted. Brian Runciman MBCS takes a look back at the process.
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The BCS Policy and Press team had their finger on the pulse during autumn and the beginning of the year commenting on top technology stories ranging from the Post Office scandal to the AI Summit. Claire Penketh reports.
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Food production isn't the first sector that comes to mind when we think of technology. To remedy that, third year PhD student at the University of Reading, Emily Johnstone, explains how tuneable LED lighting is advancing research into fruit crop growth.
提到技术,我们首先想到的不是食品生产。为了弥补这一缺陷,雷丁大学博士三年级学生艾米丽-约翰斯通(Emily Johnstone)介绍了可调式 LED 照明如何推动水果作物生长研究。
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Ryan James, Managing Director of nFocus recently spoke to Grant Powell MBCS about the importance of training top software testing talent and achieving success at the IT Industry Awards.
nFocus 董事总经理 Ryan James 最近接受了 Grant Powell MBCS 的采访,谈到了培养顶尖软件测试人才和在 IT 行业奖上取得成功的重要性。
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Martin Cooper MBCS slips on his winter coat and visits the Stellium data centre in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, a place famous for football, bridges and – it transpires – highly desirable levels of rain and cold.
马丁-库珀(Martin Cooper MBCS)穿上冬衣,参观了位于泰恩河畔纽卡斯尔的 Stellium 数据中心。
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Andrea Pillai, founder of Aider Ventures and author of the newsletter Tech x NonTech, provides her thoughts on technology's capabilities when it comes to digitally transforming the food industry to sustainably feed a growing population.
Andrea Pillai 是 Aider Ventures 公司的创始人,也是 Tech x NonTech 时事通讯的作者,她就技术在以数字化方式改造食品工业以可持续地养活日益增长的人口方面的能力发表了自己的看法。
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The 43rd BCS Specialist Group for Artificial Intelligence conference saw delegates, keynote speakers, students and academics meet, share, debate and learn. Martin Cooper MBCS reports from Peterhouse, Cambridge.
在第 43 届英国皇家科学院人工智能专家组会议上,与会代表、主旨发言人、学生和学者进行了交流、分享、辩论和学习。马丁-库珀(Martin Cooper MBCS)从剑桥彼得豪斯(Peterhouse)发回报道。
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Last year the BCS analysis of the ONS IT labour market data showed there were a potential 754,000 workers missing from the IT industry. For 2023, that number didn't improve. Brian Runciman MBCS reports.
去年,BCS 对国家统计局 IT 劳动力市场数据的分析显示,IT 行业可能缺少 75.4 万名工人。2023年,这一数字并没有改善。Brian Runciman MBCS 报道。
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Award winning digital artist, Paul Brown, offers a personal perspective on how AI could grow closer to achieving sentience, its relationship to human evolution, and how it might be impacted by climate change.
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