BCS Diary

Cheltenham & Gloucester branch

17 April. AGM followed by 'Computer Forensics - Computer Evidence & Law'. 7.30pm. Teaching Centre, Park Campus, CGCHE. Contact: R Jardine (01242) 221311.

Guildford branch

17 April. 'A Storage Story'. 7.30 for 8pm. The Stoke Hotel, Stoke Road, Guildford. Contact: T Dashwood (01252) 392796. Email: timdashwood@bcs.org.uk

Bedfordshire branch

21 April. 'Business Process Re-engineering'. 7.30pm. Holiday Inn, Garden Court, A1, Sandy. CPD rated. Contact: J Gould (01234) 223002. Email: johng@powinv.co.uk

Birmingham branch

21 April. 'How Windows Works and How To Hook Into It'. 6.30pm. Austin Court, Canbridge Street, Birmingham. CPD rated. Contact: C Harvey (0121) 749 2444.

Glasgow branch

21 April. 'Object-Oriented Methodology'. 6.30pm. University of Strathclyde, John Street. Contact: W McKee (0141) 331 3505.

Email: wamk@gcal.ac.uk

Networks specialist group

21 April. AGM.

North Staffordshire branch

21 April. 'The Virtual Organisation'. 8pm. Physics Lecture Theatre, University of Keele. Contact secretary.

Aberdeen branch

22 April. 'Soft Systems Methodology'. 7 for 7.30pm. Atholl Hotel, Kingsgate. CPD rated. Contact: F Richards (01224) 624422.

Belfast branch

22 April. Tom Winter Memorial Lecture. 4pm. Stormont. Contact: R Millar (01232) 366841.

Berkshire branch

22 April. Spring School. Last of six. 'From Now Until 2010'. 7 for 7.30pm. Blue Mountain Golf Centre, Bracknell. Contact: (01344) 472855.

Chester, North Wales, Preston & District, Manchester and Merseyside branches. 22 April. 'Data Warehousing versus Data Marts'. 6.30pm. Firgrove Hotel, Warrington. Contact: W Goodwin (01745) 882378.

Proms-G specialist group

22 April. 'IS System Failures Part II'. 7pm. IEE, Savoy Place, London. Booking essential. Contact: R Blake (0118) 950 5022.

Edinburgh branch 23 April. 'The Visage Project - Visual Authentication'. BCS Award Winner. 6pm. Moray House Institute of Education, Holyrood Road. CPD rated. Contact: P Barker (0131) 667 6455. Email: PeterBarker@-bcs.org.uk

Humberside branch 23 April. 'IT in Education Workshop'. 3.30pm. Wyke House. Email: B.C.Tompsett@-dcs.hull.ac.uk

London North branch 23 April. 'Speech Recognition'. 6.30pm. New Cavendish Club, 44 Great Cumberland Place, London W1. CPD rated. Contact: H Gerlis (0181) 343 7830. Email: andor@bcs.org.uk

Preston & District branch

23 April. 'The Smart Way to Pay for Your Energy'. 7 for 7.30pm. Adelphi TVI Theatre, University of Central Lancashire. Contact: B McManus (01772) 893288. Email: bmcmanus@-uclan.ac.uk

West Yorkshire branch

23 April. 'The Year 2000: Is it a Problem or a Crisis?'. 6.30pm. Leeds Metro University. Peter Taylor, BCS Year 2000 Committee, speaking. Contact: R Cook (0113) 247 7466. Email: roger.cook@leeds.gov.uk

Wolverhampton branch 23 April. Second of seminar series. 'Intranet - the Corporate Superhighway'. University of Wolverhampton. Contact: C Cooper (01902) 321492. Email: ndisd@wlv.ac.uk

Bristol branch

24 April. 'Pitfalls of Object-Oriented Development'. 7pm. University of Bath, School of Electronics. Contact: M Bartley (01454) 611464. Email: bartley@bristol.st.com Client-Server specialist group

24 April. 'Extending the Enterprise: Web Browser access of Legacy Applications'. 6.30pm. IBM South Bank Marketing Centre, London SE1.

Contact: (0181) 993 8080.

Leicester branch

24 April. 'Highly Interactive Web Pages'. Fletcher Suite, Fletcher Building, De Montfort University. Contact: R Farmer (0116) 257 7495. Email: rwf@dmu.ac.uk

London Central branch

24 April. 'Java - how secure is it?'. 6 for 6.30pm. New Connaught Rooms, Great Queen St, London WC2. CPD rating: 1.5hrs. Contact: A Miller (0181) 357 8274. Email: asment@cix.compulink.co.uk

Merseyside branch

24 April. AGM 6pm followed by 'Object Modelling Meets the Big Bad Wolf' at 6.30pm. Chadwick Building, University of Liverpool, Peach Street. Contact: S Heneghan (0151) 966 2659.

Natural Language Translation specialist group 24 April. 'The Telegraph Machine Translation System'. 6.30pm. Room 2B25, King's College, Strand, London WC2. Contact: M L'Huillier (01784) 443243.

Noops 24 April. 'Java versus C++'. 7pm. Newcastle University. Contact: A Morton (0973) 173287. Email: andrew_morton@msn.com URL: www.mari.co.uk/noops/

Notts & Derby branch

26 April. Branch Annual Dinner. 7.30 for 8pm. Santo's Higham Farm Hotel, Alfreton. Contact: C Edwards. Fax: (01629) 580118. Email: chrisde@bcs.org.uk

European IT Prize Closing date for entries: 28 April. Contact: R Smallwood (0171) 222 2688. Email: smallwoodr@raeng.co.uk

North Wiltshire branch

29 April. AGM followed by 'The Legal Aspects of Project Management'. 7 for 7.30pm. BCS HQ, Swindon. Contact: S Barnes (01793) 455480.

Safety-Critical Systems club. 29 April. 'Safety Cases'. Manchester. Contact: J Atkinson, Centre for Software Reliability (0191) 221 2222. Email: csr@newcastle.ac.uk

BCS Professional Development Portfolio. Training courses start May. In partnership with ICL HR Consultancy. Windsor, Manchester and Scotland. Contact: A Duckworth (01793) 417433. Email: aduckworth@bcs.org.uk

Berkshire branch. 6 May. 'Internet Security'. 7.30pm. IBM Bedfont Lakes, Feltham. Contact: A Gould (01344) 55837.

Project Management specialist group. 6 May. Summer School. First of four. 'Systems Implementation - Strategy & Planning'. 7pm. Hewlett-Packard, Bracknell. Contact: R Blake (0118) 950 5022.

Bristol branch

7 May. AGM and 'Computing in the Third Millennium'. 7pm. Hawthorns Hotel, Bristol. Contact: M Bartley (01454) 611464. Email: bartley@bristol.st.com

Hampshire branch 7 May. 'Light Rapid Transport in Hampshire'. 7.30pm. Novotel, Southampton. Contact: T Pickup (01705) 874144.

Inverness sub-branch

7 May. AGM and 'Natural Language Programming'. 2pm. HIE, Inverness. CPD rated. Contact: C Macleod (01463) 244358.

Newcastle-upon-Tyne branch

7 May. AGM. 6.30pm. Senior Common Room, Old Library Building, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. CPD rated. Contact: J Macintyre (0191) 515 3778.

Oops specialist group

7 May. 'Oops-109: Vision - a Prototype Database System'. 6.30pm. IBM South Bank, London. Contact: B Saxby. Email: saxby@kingston.ac.uk

Chester and North Wales branch

8 May. AGM followed by special meeting. Contact: K Wisgott (01606) 77448

Bournemouth & Dorset branch 9 May. AGM followed by 'Quality & the Paperless Office'. Buffet. 7 for 7.30pm. Anglo Swiss Hotel, Gervis Road, Bournemouth. CPD rated. Contact: R Marsden (01202) 707148.

Birmingham branch

12 May. AGM 6.30pm followed by 'Solving the Millennium Problem'. Birmingham Medical Institute. CPD rated. Contact: C Harvey (0121) 749 2444.

Aberdeen branch

13 May. AGM. 12.30pm.

DAI, 8 Queens Gardens, Aberdeen. Contact: F Richards (01224) 624422.