Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The British Computer Society (BCS), branded BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, since 2009, is a professional body and a learned society that represents those working in information technology (IT), computing, software engineering, computer engineering and computer science, both in the United Kingdom and internationally.
SFIAplus is the IT training and development model of the British Computer Society (BCS). [1] Based on the original Industry Structure Model, first published by the BCS in July 1986, which was remapped to the Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA) and rebranded as SFIAPlus.
She worked with computer pioneer Charles Babbage on the proposed mechanical general-purpose computer – the Analytical Engine, [1] in 1842 and is often described as the world's first computer programmer. [4] The medal is intended to be presented to individuals, without regard to their countries of domicile, provided a direct connection to the UK.
The group celebrated its 20th anniversary with a meeting at the Royal Society in London in 1998, with presentations by four eminent computer scientists, Mike Gordon, Tony Hoare, Robin Milner and Gordon Plotkin, all Fellows of the Royal Society. From 2002 to 2008 and since 2013 again, the Chair of BCS-FACS has been Jonathan Bowen.
It has been created by STEM Learning at the University of York, the BCS (British Computer Society) and the Raspberry Pi Foundation. It is funded by the Department for Education. The Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge will also provide assistance.
The YPG judges, promotes and awards the Young IT Practitioner of the Year Award along with naming the annual British Computer Society Medal Winners. This underlines one of the YPG's key roles: to nurture and applaud individual ingenuity and entrepreneurial success that have made the British IT industry a leading global player.
On May 3, 2013, IMIS voted to merge into the British Computer Society and ceased to exist. [4] Since their early establishment, the IMIS (formerly the IDPM) and the British Computer Society (BCS) have been regarded as the two main UK professional institutes for computer professionals. In a Press Release dated 3 May 2013, the BCS announced that ...
The RESG's stated purpose is "to provide a forum for interaction between the many disciplines involved" in Requirements Engineering, [1] which it explains is "a key activity in the development of software systems and is concerned with the identification of the goals of stakeholders and their elaboration into precise statements of desired services and behaviour."