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Ah, just a name drop: I met the President of the BCS (at the time) Wendy Hall at the Hypertext 2003 conference. I told her I was working with Ted Nelson (withou
by zandorg 16y ago
Ah, just a name drop: I met the President of the BCS (at the time) Wendy Hall at the Hypertext 2003 conference. I told her I was working with Ted Nelson (without whom she wouldn't have got so far) and she looked confused, as if not working for grants/funding was an unusual thing.
- gaius 16y agoIf you look at something like this: http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=nav.8710 http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=nav.8710 - they're selling to IT management, they are very far from being an organization to represent the rank-and-file. Doubtless - that old British classism rearing its head - they would say that the managers are the "professionals" and the actual practitioners are mere labourers, like miners.