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BCS Insights 2021: defining good, doing good
BCS
May 26, 2021
The BCS Insights annual conference hits its third birthday with a planet-wide view of tech - how it can help the climate change emergency; how it hinders; the role of professionalism, what we should expect from the tech giants… and what we can do, writes Brian Runciman MBCS.
Tags: Sustainability, Climate Change, Diversity and Inclusion
Raheem Sterling and ethnicity in UK IT
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January 18, 2019
BCS has published a draft version of the second part of its definitive four-part series of evidence-based reports exploring equality and diversity in the IT workforce. Can you help us build a picture of the experiences of people from ethnic minorities in UK IT?.
Tags: HealthTech, Health and Safety, Diversity and Inclusion
DevOps in practice
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November 28, 2018
Businesses, particularly those of medium or larger size, have never been under more pressure to evolve through technology-enabled change and have never been at greater threat of disruption, increasingly from unexpected directions.
What do you see?
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October 29, 2018
Not all disabilities are visible. There’s been several awareness weeks recently, looking at, for instance, invisible disabilities, which covers conditions like dyslexia, ADHD and Asperger syndrome (high functioning autism), through to Irlen Syndrome (a problem with the brain's ability to process v
Launch of BCS School Curriculum and Assessment Committee
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September 18, 2018
The Royal Society Report After the Reboot: Computing Education in UK Schools expressed clear concern about the qualifications landscape for computing, especially at Key Stage 4, and recommended that Ofqual and the government should work urgently with the learned societies in computing, awarding bodi
Latest results for the IT sector - we could do better
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August 30, 2018
Results season is upon us again and over the past week the internet has been awash with analysis and commentary arising from the publication of 2018 GCE/GCSE outcomes for England, Wales and Northern Ireland by the JCQ (Joint Council for Qualifications).
IT recruitment agency survey feedback
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August 14, 2018
Julian Fletcher MBCS, a consulting technical architect for the Government Digital Service, presents his finds from a IT recruitment survey he ran independently.
Analysing diversity in the UK’s IT workforce
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August 01, 2018
We recently witnessed a major social event bringing together people from all walks of life in the pursuance and celebration of a shared dream - and no I’m not referring here to England winning the word cup - but instead, the annual Pride in London LGBT+ parade - an event involving around 500 group
BCS Workforce Data
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August 01, 2018
Just over two years ago, the UK public gave the go ahead for Brexit. With less than a year to go before the big event, in this post, we take a brief look at the effect that this monumental decision has had upon the characteristics of the IT workforce in the UK. To explore the story, we’ll be using
Data protection officers (DPO) & GDPR
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July 27, 2018
Recently I was retained as an external data protection officer (DPO) for a medium sized organisation, with offices and employees in the UK, USA, and mainland Europe.
Satellites, big data and intelligence
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June 28, 2018
Dr. Jonathan Henderson, from User Services Directorate of Information Services at the University of Edinburgh, reports on a seminar he attended recently regarding satellites, big data and intelligence.
ECHSCP: BCS Award-winning IT project 40 years on
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June 27, 2018
Former members of ECHSCP (Exeter Community Health Service Computer Project) gathered recently for a 40th anniversary reunion. Remembering the challenges of electronic patient records and reminiscing about the strong esprit de corps created by rising to the challenges together, many friendships were
Council meeting - May 2018
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June 14, 2018
It's that time of year when we welcome our newly-elected members to Council. I recently held an induction session with them ahead of our main Council meeting.
Using the apprenticeship levy to fill the digital skills gap
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April 27, 2018
Mark Samuels, Harvey Nash, takes a look at how apprenticeships can bring in new talent to fill the current IT skills gap, and how businesses can benefit from the associated apprenticeship levy.
UK IT Industry Awards - Could this be your year?
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April 26, 2018
It's been an outstanding few months for Rob Dance, RockIT's CEO. Not only was he recently crowned as the IOD Wales's Young Director of the Year, but in October, RockIT was awarded the Fast Growth 50 award for sustainable growth, setting a new internal record of five consecutive years of growth. The
Rise of the Earthbots - Can Green AI solve the climate problem?
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March 19, 2018
Hardly a day goes by when we don't see an article on how we are likely to miss the Paris targets for climate emissions reductions. With 2020 just around the corner, the milestone for bending the curve on greenhouse gas emissions seems harder and harder to achieve. Indications of what might lie in st
Reunion for all members of ECHSCP
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March 02, 2018
Do you remember working on an electronic patient record system in Exeter in the 1970s? If so, our project leader, Jack Sparrow, invites you to join him for a 40th anniversary celebration of the Exeter Community Health Service Computer Project to be held in Exeter this June.
Council commences 2018
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February 28, 2018
Council meetings often cover formal items such as electing the next BCS President or changes to BCS’ regulations. January’s meeting was different. It was much more informal and had several items for discussion and debate.
The list of potential dangers for our children as they navigate the complexities of digital life, and its crossover and connections with ‘real’ life, are long. How can we help them? How can we engage them in the conversation? BCS held a roundtable to discuss this as part of the launch of Project PEEL, designed to give young people a voice on self-identity.
In BCS’s member-sourced ‘ideas for good’ campaign, Dave Brooks channels Jeff Goldblum’s character from Jurassic Park. He says, with the Institute’s stated goal of making IT good for society in mind,‘we need to ask why. We, as a society, are so interested in what we “can” do with tech that we forget to think about what we “should” do. This is a philosophical and ethical question, but also speaks to strategic alignment and use of resources.’
Tags: Digital Disruption, Social, Sustainability, Leadership
Peoplecare 2018
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January 17, 2018
BIO IT Manager, David Lightfoot MBCS explains why it is ‘peoplecare’, above all of management’s functions, that is most important in building a successful company.
BCS at New Scientist Live
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October 16, 2017
For four days at the end of September, writes Richard Lester, BCS was at ‘New Scientist Live’ in London, flying the flag for the IT and digital stars across science, technology and engineering - the people who make modern life possible and future dreams a reality.
The tech behind 'The Panama Papers' could help your business
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August 30, 2017
Neo Technology’s CEO Emil Eifrem discusses the unique technology that helped make The Panama Papers exposé possible, and how it could help your business ‘follow the money’.
The rise of big data
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August 25, 2017
Senior business analyst, Vijay Nair discusses use-cases of big data and the architecture around it, as well as providing a brief review of using big data in connection with artificial intelligence, internet of things and RFID technologies.
Where next for computing in secondary education in England?
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July 14, 2017
As you read this, teachers are transforming computing education in secondary schools right across England. The progress they have made is just short of miraculous, testament to their professionalism and commitment, writes Bill Mitchell, Director, BCS Academy of Computing.
Birth of BCS
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May 26, 2017
Among the horn-rimmed spectacles and grey haberdashery of post-war Britain rose a technological phoenix. Following on from the wartime computing pioneers that the world didn’t really even find out about until the 2000s, 1957 saw the birth of BCS.
MI6 Careers: The IT pro who came in from the cold
BCS
May 01, 2017
Few organisations have been as obsessively portrayed in book and film as MI6, and official acknowledgement of its existence was only made in 1994. Brian Runciman MBCS discussed the career options in the organisation with a senior MI6 technical specialist.
Celebrating digital transformation
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March 14, 2017
The Paperless Awards 2017 recognise organisations that are making IT good for society through innovative programmes designed to transform and enhance the public sector.
Brexit as catalyst
ITNOW/BCS and OUP
November 15, 2016
October 2016 saw BCS running its latest IT Impact event ‘Shining the light on post-Brexit Britain’. It emerged that, if anything, the opportunities and issues which have arisen from the recent vote to leave the European Union are those the UK should be addressing anyway.
Youth has the worst access of any group to mental health services in the UK. Yet there are literally thousands of resources in the digital world alone for mental health. What’s the problem?
Tags: Social, HealthTech, Health and Wellness, Mental Health
How to keep UK IT great
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October 17, 2016
Investing in our education system and in capability are the keys to ensuring Brexit means a bright future, says Bill Mitchell - Director of Education at BCS
Being a start-up in post Brexit UK
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October 06, 2016
What challenges will the UK’s renegotiation of it place in Europe present to entrepreneurs? The BCS editorial team asks Ben Shorrock, Digital Tech Sector Specialist for Invest Bristol & Bath
Health and Technology: How can data save lives?
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October 04, 2016
Labour’s Annual Conference takes place every autumn and is one of largest and most high profile political events in Europe. The 2016 conference took place in Liverpool.
NHS: Paperless by next decade?
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September 27, 2016
BCS Multimedia Editor Justin Richards takes a pragmatic look at the mechanisms underpinning Jeremy Hunt’s desire for a paperless NHS by the end of this decade.
The recipe for start-up success
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September 07, 2016
Ben Shorrock, Digital Tech Sector Specialist for Invest Bristol & Bath, tells Justin Richards MBCS why successful start-ups don’t just happen by accident.
Pokemon Go and the rise of augmented reality
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July 21, 2016
Speaking at the World Mobile Conference in Barcelona, in February this year, Mark Zuckerberg commented ‘We’re making a long term bet that immersive, virtual and augmented reality will become part of people’s daily lives’ and his prediction is coming to fruition.
The IT industry and the rise of women in politics
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July 19, 2016
Sarah Burnett, Vice President at Everest Group, and BCSWomen Deputy Chair, looks at what the IT industry could learn from the rise of women in UK politics.
Personal data and insurance
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July 08, 2016
BCS recently interviewed Lisa Woodall, Head of Strategy, Architecture and Governance at Zurich Insurance, on one of the Institute’s key challenges - personal data.
IT contractors: undervalued and under attack
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June 27, 2016
The UK has always thrived as an international trading nation and global leader in science and engineering. As we leave the EU we need to ensure we have the right support in place for our science and engineering education and research ecosystem if we are to continue to succeed in a global economy.
UK Computer Science and Engineering post Brexit
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June 24, 2016
The UK has always thrived as an international trading nation and global leader in science and engineering. As we leave the EU we need to ensure we have the right support in place for our science and engineering education and research ecosystem if we are to continue to succeed in a global economy.
A BCS workshop saw a group of experts and thinkers meeting under Chatham House rules, to take a first run at one of the Institute’s four challenges: personal data.
Internet of things
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April 07, 2016
An article in the Times on the 9th March, (also the day of BCS's AGM), served as a reminder of why our mission to ‘Make IT good for society’ is so important.
BCS Response: Investigatory powers
BCS/OUP
February 16, 2016
The December 2015 BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, response to the Parliamentary Joint Committee’s call for evidence on the draft Investigatory Powers Bill.
University Partners Double Reach of CAS Network of Teaching Excellence
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January 18, 2016
The Network of Teaching Excellence in Computer Science (NoE) is a national community of professional practice. This community is a partnership between schools, universities, IT employers and professional bodies. It is run by the Computing At School group (CAS), which itself if part of BCS. Thanks to
Voluntary code: guidance for sharing data
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January 08, 2016
Collecting, storing and distributing digital data is significantly easier and cheaper now than ever before, in line with predictions from Moore, Kryder and Gilder. Organisations are incentivised to collect large volumes of data with the hope of unleashing new business opportunities or maybe even new
Not all disabilities are visible. There’s been several awareness weeks recently, looking at, for instance, invisible disabilities, which covers conditions like dyslexia, ADHD and Asperger syndrome (high functioning autism), through to Irlen Syndrome (a problem with the brain's ability to process visual information). It all brought to my mind the increasing awareness in the UK of things like neuro-diversity.
Is the internet splintering?
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October 13, 2022
The internet's libertarian roots are important, but it's added a European bourgeoise aspect, developed an American commercial approach and now has the Chinese paternalist version. Kieron O'Hara, author and Emeritus Fellow at Southampton University discusses where the internet goes next, the choices
Open Source, not local source
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July 11, 2022
OpenUK's Amanda Brock and Smooth Media's Jennifer Barth talk to Brian Runciman about their open source software research for 2022. Open source use is maturing - over 90% of respondents take a collaborative approach, billions are now invested in open source software with millions of downloads per y
The best and brightest UK women computing undergraduates
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June 28, 2022
The BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium is an annual one day conference for women and non-binary students of computing and related subjects. Johanna Hamilton MBCS speaks to organiser Hannah Dee and also some of the students, poster prize winners and more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inf
What does AI look like?
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June 01, 2022
Jamillah Knowles talks to Brian Runciman about incongruous AI images - from the Terminators that do no favours to AI stories, to the embodied AIs when we are actually talking about software. She talks about using depictions that work for multiple audiences, colour usage, visualising networks and AI
Open source is about more than money-saving
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May 24, 2022
Open source software economic evaluation needs far more than a total cost of ownership calculation. A new survey looks at its value in broader terms, alongside compliance, legal issues and other aspects of the journey to maturity. Amanda Brock from OpenUK and Jennifer Barth at Smooth Media discuss t
Think different: the home for the neurodiverse
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May 09, 2022
Matthew Bellringer, Chair of the newly formed NeurodiverseIT Specialist Group speaks to Brian Runciman about the unique talents of the neurodiverse. The group's design philosophy of 'nothing about us without us', and the importance of deciding explicit use cases for products. He also stresses the va
We are all brilliant at something
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April 12, 2022
New BCS President Mayank Prakash talks about reimagining business and whether if all companies are tech companies we should view all workers as technologists. He also discusses that fact that every manager has a responsibility to understand and apply technology, his view of learning from many source
A fifteenth weather prediction supercomputer - and counting
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March 02, 2022
Weather prediction contributes to important issues - for example, feeding emission scenarios into the COP agenda to assess climate change impacts. For people in general, it has made today's five day forecast as good as the one day forecast from 40 years ago. This modelling has traditionally been dri
Tokenism or role modelling?
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February 15, 2022
Jacqueline de Rojas CBE discusses her journey from a take-away in Folkestone to President of Tech UK. Along the way she discusses the problems with the BAME bucket, tech-enabled abuse, the importance of neurodiversity, her roots in Swindon and tech as a people business. Hosted on Acast. See acast.co
Journey to the autonomous enterprise
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February 03, 2022
60% ROI, reductions in churn, creativity boosts for the workforce... AI expert Sarah Burnett talks about the autonomous enterprise, how to start the journey to get there and why job losses won't be a problem. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Women in tech: the only woman in the room?
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October 07, 2021
Sharon Moore MBE is Chief Technology Officer Public Sector at IBM. As co-author of the BCS Women in Tech book she talks about the frustration of saying the same things over and over again, and whether it is worth being 'one of the guys'. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Women in Tech: Gendered career paths
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October 06, 2021
Clem Herman is Professor of Gender and Technology at the Open University. As co-author of the BCS book on Women in Tech, she looks at translating research into action, the impact of career breaks and the unsuitability of the ladder climbing analogy in women's careers, and what we can learn from othe
Women in Tech: Reverse Mentoring
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October 04, 2021
Chair of BCS Women Andrea Palmer (And No. 4 in Computer Weekly's Top 50 Most Influential Women in UK Tech 2021) talks about the importance of different ways of thinking, how to attract more women into tech and creating the right culture. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Robot submarines versus Pinkification
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September 27, 2021
Hannah Dee is a Computer Science Lecturer and started the BCS Women Lovelace Colloquium. She talks about her part in the new BCS book on women in tech, cross-disciplinary use of robot submarines and the experience of young women in schools and at university to better understand the (problematic term
Women in Tech: From Speak and Spell to Knightrider
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September 20, 2021
Shilpa Shah is a contributor to the new BCS book ‘Women in Tech - a practical guide’ and leads the Deloitte women in technology group. She talks about her inspiration from old tech, the importance of practical tips and guidance and her 3 c’s - care about the subject, call it out when diversity
Women in Tech: Sex Pistols and the 80%
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September 08, 2021
Gillian Arnold talks about editing the new BCS book ‘Women in tech - a practical guide’. Bigger companies can get it right, but culture issues are key - as her stripper experience exemplifies. As she says, equality is not only a moral imperative - it’s good for business. Hosted on Acast.
Four internets, maybe more...
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July 26, 2021
Dame Wendy Hall talks about her role as UK AI skills champion, the February 2021 road map for AI update and subsequent UK national strategy and how the UK is already a superpower in science and can be the same for AI and data ethics. She also discusses diversity, how she would like to see people fro
From tick-box to good business sense
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April 13, 2021
Dr Sue Black talks about the success of TechUPWomen, retraining women from under-served backgrounds, how Durham University doubled its number of female computing undergraduates and how diversity has gone from a tick-box exercise to good business sense. She also discuses her personal journey of overc
Being cared for by your smart home
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January 06, 2021
How could your home look after you if you suffer from dementia or have had a stroke? How sophisticated should home sensors be to balance health requirements and privacy? The UK’s only black (Afro-Caribbean) female professor of computer science, Dorothy Monekosso, a BCS Honorary Fellow from Leeds B
The 3 opens: software, hardware and data
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December 09, 2020
Amanda Brock is CEO of OpenUK - she talks to Brian Runciman about open source and whether business understands its value, whether the public need to know more, the three reasons Microsoft are so big in OS now, popstar Imogen Heap and her mini-moo glove and the importance of free speech in code. Host
The Algorithm Made Me Do It
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October 07, 2020
Grady Booch - Turing Award medal winner, IBM Alumni and creator of UML - speaks to Brian Runciman about embodied cognition, inclusive language in IBM’s code base, the computing version of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, GPT 3 passing the Trump test but not the Turing test and more. Along the way we are not
Geoff White
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August 10, 2020
We speak to investigative journalist Geoff White on how the web from reflecting a hippy utopian ideal of communal living to the dark web - and we touch on the role of the US government, the Grateful Dead and how a barium-style trace could help our personal data use. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/p
Suzanne Doyle-Morris
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August 03, 2020
Dr Suzanne Doyle-Morris, CEO of Inclusiq and author of The Con Job, talks to Brian Runciman MBCS about competence versus confidence; imposter syndrome as a super power, the role of humility and what useful confidence looks like. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Cecilia Harvey
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July 07, 2020
Cecilia Harvey CEO of @hyvedynamics in conversation with BCS' Olivia Wolfheart. They talk leadership, responsibility and culture in technology. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Reema Patel
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June 15, 2020
What should the stewardship of our health data involve - including biometrics and genomic data? What is stretch collaboration and how can it help combat group-think? Thorny issues like the use of healthcare data, AI, the diversity agenda, face recognition - and influencing policy and practice in the
Dame Stephanie Shirley CH
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April 15, 2020
Olivia Wolfheart MBCS speaks to the inspirational entrepreneur. From coming to the UK in 1939 on the kinder transport, and championing women in IT through highly successful software businesses to becoming the UK’s first ever national ambassador of philanthropy and her campaigning for autism, Dame
Rupert McNeil
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April 01, 2020
Adding an 'A' to STEM, the pains and pleasures of moving large functions to the cloud, a single blockchain-enabled user ID, multiple neurotypes, Emmanuel Kant and whistle-blowing all come up as Brian Runciman speaks to the government's Chief People Officer Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for
Catherine Miller
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March 23, 2020
IT doesn't have a gender or ethics problem... it's about smart, thoughtful, caring people building tech. Brian Runciman discusses innovating responsibly, social media whack-a-mole, meeting the needs of the furthest first and the role of 'uninventors' with Catherine Miller, CEO of doteveryone Hosted
Rebecca George OBE
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February 19, 2020
Are IT professionals ethical enough... and what about diversity? Brian Runciman speaks to Rebecca George OBE, incoming BCS President and Managing Partner of Public Sector Practice at Deloitte Europe Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Luciano Floridi
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February 12, 2020
Are AI ethics problems just bad engineering? Brian Runciman speaks to philosopher Luciano Floridi Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Interview with Cecilie Waagner Falkenstrom
BCS
November 01, 2017
Brian Runciman, BCS Head of Content talks to Cecilie Waagner Falkenstrom, winner of The Lumen Prize 2017, BCS Artificial Intelligence Award for Digital Art, about her creation - ‘Frank’, an ARTificial intelligence.
This is shown by some of the biggest changes in numbers in the BCS IT Leaders survey in recent years. But the numbers also demonstrate that when IT leaders raise issues that need addressing (security and cloud, yet again, loom large) - they know of what they speak.
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BCS Insights 2021: defining good, doing good
Raheem Sterling and ethnicity in UK IT
Turing Bombe moves home and lives again
The kids are alright (aren
The Jurassic Park problem
Computing is too important to be left to men
Is the internet splintering?
BCS IT Leaders Report
AI 101
