A meeting on Statistical Software Interoperability will be held on Thursday 14th November 2013 at RSS headquarters, Errol Street in London. This is a joint meeting of the Statistical Computing Section (SCS) of the Royal Statistical Society (RSS), and the British and Irish (BIR) region of the Biometric Society and will include the BIR's AGM. Programme: 12.45-13.00 Registration 13.00-13.30 Annual General Meeting of the BIR 13.00-14.15 Statistical Interoperability - what,why, when and how? The Stat-JR experience. William Browne (University of Bristol) 14.15-15.00 The Interoperation of Statistical Software in a Commercial Setting - Some personal experiences and observations. Ian Cox (JMP) 15.00-15.30 Coffee 15.30-16.15 GenStat and ASReml as components of the statistical toolkit. Roger Payne (VSN International) 16.15-17.00 There and Back again - a BUGS tale. Mike K. Smith (Pfizer) Cost: Member of Biometric/Royal Statistical Society: £20 Student/Retired Member: £10 Non-Member: £35 For more details and to register go to http://bir.biometricsociety.org/events/interop -- Professor W.J. Browne Work Phone: 0117 9289428 E-Mail: [log in to unmask] Web: <http://seis.bris.ac.uk/~frwjb/> You may leave the list at any time by sending the command SIGNOFF allstat to [log in to unmask], leaving the subject line blank.