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BCS Women Undergraduate Lovelace Colloquium

Previous Years


2010 will the be third year for the BCS Women Lovelace Colloquium. Developed by Hannah Dee it was hosted in 2009 & 2008 by the University of Leeds.

To find out more about the 2009 Lovelace Colloquium check out Hannah's short report plus the podcast and series of videos created by Christine Burns ...

Introduction by Alan Pollard, FBCS CITP

Alan Pollard, President of the BCS in 2009, delivers a short welcoming speech to open proceedings for the 2nd annual BCS Women Lovelace Colloqium on April 16th 2009 at Leeds University.

Keynote speech by Gillian Arnold of IBM

Gillian talks about the fun beginnings of her career and then points to the research that underpins why many companies are now seriously keen to employ more women in technology management and leadership roles.

"Are we having fun yet?" - Dr Julie Greensmith

Julie Greensmith bubbles over with infectious enthusiasm for her work within the "Thrill Laboratory" at Nottingham University, where she and colleagues do serious research about measuring human reactions, and use rollercoasters as their laboratory tools!

"Unify your communications" by Eileen Brown - Microsoft

Eileen is a technology evangelist at Microsoft and is one of the few women among 300 or so similar evangelists. Her particular speciality involves developments which bring together different communication technologies in one joined-up whole: Email, Phones, Voicemail, Video, Text, and Instant Messaging all working as one.

"Software Engineering Meets Social Networking" by Professor Cornelia Bolyreff - University of Lincoln

Professor Cornelia Boldyreff shows off a "One Laptop Per Child" (OLPC) XO device and talks about the collaborative approach used by developers building software tools and applications for the device.

Lovelace 2009 Posters
Some of the posters & their presenters from 2009