Category for General Announcements

Save the Date!


Sept 27 & 28, 2013

Plans are afoot for OTA13 and we’ve now set the dates: Friday the 27th and Saturday the 28th of September, 2013. Be sure to get it into your calendars!
In the meantime, be sure to follow us @overtheair and #ota13 for more details as they come …

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Slides, Videos, Write-ups and More!


If you’re interested in seeing the slides from sessions you attended, or videos of sessions you didn’t, check out our Lanyrd Coverage Page where we’re accumulating videos, slide decks, links to articles and blog posts and other materials. You’ll find official videos of everything that …

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Media & Blog Coverage of OTA12


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(this page will continue to be updated as new stuff gets posted and shared…)
Press Coverage
FORBES: Android meets Theremin at Over the Air, by Ewan Spence
“Although I couldn’t attend this month’s Over The Air event at Bletchley Park (previously on Forbes…), it’s always fun to see what madness …

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Bletchley Park Tours at Over the Air


Bletchley Park have graciously set up special tours for Over the Air attendees on both Friday and Saturday. You’ll be able to tour the park, find out more about the work that went on there and come face to face with the Enigma, Turing’s code …

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Turing and his Times


Video coverage from the 26/04 event at Bletchley Park

The video of the highly acclaimed Turing and his Times event organised by The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) is now online. The event, held on 26 April 2012, was to mark the centenary of the birth …

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Appcelerator is Sponsoring Saturday Lunch


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We are pleased to announce that Appcelerator is sponsoring Saturday Lunch at OTA12.
Founded in 2006 and based in Mountain View, California, Appcelerator makes Titanium, the leading mobile platform of choice for thousands of companies seizing the mobile opportunity. With more than 40,000 applications deployed on …

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And that’s a wrap


Birthday

If you haven’t had a chance yet, please make a donation to The National Museum of Computing – with Gift Aid they’ll get £11.74 for every £10 donated on JustGiving. Raising £4,000 would allow them to invest in Raspberry Pi’s, Arduino boards, and other new …

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Calling all Young Coders – Guest Post from Emma Mulqueeny


The previous year has seen a groundswell of interest and support for the notion that this generation of young people and the next should be equipped with finer digital knowledge. That they should be given the opportunity to create and build digital stuff, as well …

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Beanbags – the very soul of a Hack Day


Back in 2007 a gang of us got together from the BBC and Yahoo! and brought Hack Days from the States to the UK. The event was called Hack07 and there was a great deal of talk about how we’d create a space that was …

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When was the first computer invented?


Article from ComputerHope
First mechanical computer or automatic computing engine concept
In 1822, Charles Babbage purposed and began developing the Difference Engine, considered to be the first automatic computing engine that was capable of computing several sets of numbers and making a hard copies of the results. Unfortunately, because of funding …

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