Robin Jones revisits the data security issue. Readers may remember an article I wrote in VSJ for March 2008, in which I outlined a set of safeguards that might be employed to eliminate – or at least minimise – the steady drip of embarrassing revelations about the loss of sensitive Government-held personal data. That article […]

Charles Ross, FIAP writes about his new book and makes a generous offer to IAP members! Recently I’ve been working on a book, with Shirley Redpath, entitled  Biological Systems of the Brain, Unlocking the Secrets of Consciousness. Drawing on a lifetime of work and research into thinking systems, we present a series of radical theories […]

The 7th Annual UK Datacentre Design and Management Conference is on 11 and 12 November at the Royal Lancaaster Hotel, London. See www.DatacenterDynamics.com/london for details. Information Security and Identity Management is at the Victoria Park Plaza, London on 20 November. See www.kablenet.com for more. The 9th International Animation, Games and SFX Conference runs from 24 […]

David Morgan, the IAP’s President, discusses his experience of a too-common system development problem. I’m primarily a project manager. It’s the job I’ve been doing – together with some business analysis – for the better part of twenty years, on the Indian sub-continent and in the UK. So I’ve never really seen myself as a […]

We welcome two Fellows who have recently been elected. Jeffrey Tyrrell  BSc (Hons) LLM MBA Jeffrey is a solicitor who started out in 1977 specialising in technical disputes.  Rising to become Managing Partner of his firm he then branched out into the management of change; this is where he has built his career, particularly in […]

Robin Jones goes green-ish Listeners to Radio 4’s Now Show will no doubt recall an audience member’s plaintive cry that, every time he sends an email to his printer, he gets an extra page whose sole function is to ask him if he really needs to print it out. I’m sure he was being ironic. […]