The Annual Conference

The 1997 annual conference was held at the University of Birmingham Conference Park from Monday 17th to Tuesday 18th November 1997. The conference attracted AVS and UNIRAS users from both industry and higher education. Advanced Visual Systems was, as always, well represented by key management and technical personnel, so the conference provided a valuable opportunity to find out about new developments. The conference ran from mid-morning on the 17th to mid-afternoon on the 18th and included the conference dinner in the Conference Park. It consisted of papers with concurrent demonstrations of hardware and software in an adjoining room. There were no parallel streams of papers, however. The conference fee of £200 included full catering, accommodation and all conference sessions.

The program (including abstracts) covered a wide range of topics of interest to both AVS and Uniras users.

The venue

The conference had exclusive use of Hornton Grange, on the Birmingham University Conference Park. Hornton Grange was built during the early years of this century as an Edwardian style gentleman's residence which now stands in its own attractive and peaceful grounds within the Conference Park. It has its own bar and Conservatory Dining Room with 32 modern and highly specified en-suite bedrooms in the adjacent North and South wings. The Conference Park itself is located very close to the University campus. As well as offering ample free car parking it has good rail links with Birmingham International Airport and the rest of the UK.