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March 2013
Did you know?..... In the middle of the rural East Riding of Yorkshire there is a suprisingly large collection of surprisingly large computers.
Prof Jim Austin has been collecting computers and associated bits and pieces of technology for decades. Some of the more impressive items include: an IBM BlueGene, several Cray supercomputers, a Fujitsu VPX supercomputer, IBM mainframes, the Marconi transistor computer which originally controlled Wylfa nucelar power station and a rather rusty Holrith punched-card machine from from the 1940s... plus another 400+ items!
Many thanks to Jim and his dedicated, enthusiastic and very knowledgeable team of volunteers for a wonderful afternoon of education, nostalgia and friendly hospitality.

IET NY Visit to Jim Austin's Computer Collection in March 2013

February 2013
Dr James Kimmance presented an interesting an thought-provoking presentation on what the real risks are to our critical infrastructure, what is being done to mitigate the risks... and what should really be done to ensure that our industries, communications, transport systems etc.have enough resilience to stand up to so-called "black swan" events. Event held at the Ron Cooke Hub at The Univeristy of York. Thanks to Andy Titley for organising the event.

We regret that the "Lifeskills" event planned for 20 February had to be cancelled. Please contact the NY Committee if you would like to arrange one of these events in future (we need to guarantee at leat 15 attendees).

January 2013
In the New Year, the NY Committee was pleased to be able to secure funds to assist in the eductational visit to CERN by students from The University of York Department of Electronics. Committee member Atif Syed organised the trip which included a rare subterranean tour. Full report to follow.

December 2012

IET NY LN and the local branch of the Institute of Physics organised a STEM outreach lecture at Easingwold School entitled: "Surviving On The Edge of Space". David Jenkins and Adam NIchols from The University of York gave a highly entertaining presentation involving liquid nitrogen, frozen bananas, vacuum chambers and.... an exploding marshmallow man. Thanks to Liz Hooper, Catherine Brophy and Patrick Mason for assiting in the organisation of the event.

See pictures here: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

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The committee of the NY network organises visits, events, lifeskills workshops and professional registration clinics and meets regularly in York. Our area has a mixed population and covers the beautiful city of York, the spa town of Harrogate and the country and rural areas including Northallerton and Ripon.

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