The Institution’s 2010 AGM will be on Saturday, 16 October, at Boundary House, Boston Road, Hanwell W7 2QE, starting at 12.00 noon. The AGM is usually a short meeting, its purpose being merely to fulfil a requirement of the Companies Acts, but all members of the Institution are welcome to attend. Those wishing to do […]
At the IAP, we’re very conscious of the difficult times many of our members are experiencing at the moment. This is especially, but by no means exclusively, true of those who rely on short-term contracts and so we’re always looking for ways that we can help our members obtain new positions. The IAP’s conferences are […]
Here’s an important date for your diaries – 17 September 2010. That’s the date of this year’s Autumn conference, to be held at the Magic Circle headquarters, not far from Euston Station. Its theme is the way in which systems of many kinds are starting to move from traditional one-way command structures to much more […]
Mike Ryan, the IAP’s Director General, has decided to retire shortly. Suitably qualified and experienced people wishing to apply for the post should go to DG Information for details. [Please note that the closing date for applications for this post has now passed.]
Geoff Evelyn, FIAP has written here before about aspects of SharePoint. In fact, he might be said to be evelyn-gelical about it. Sorry, I feel better now. This time, he concentrates on staffing for a successful SharePoint project. If you’re a SharePoint Architect, there are a number of areas you want to focus on. I […]
It goes without saying that IAP members have a wealth of technical expertise and training. Without such skills they wouldn’t be members. But there’s more to personal success than technical abilities, especially at senior levels. Many companies, recognizing this, employ life coaches to help their staff reach their potential. As individuals, though, we don’t generally […]
Charles Ross, FIAP is well-known to IAP members as an energetic leader of the IT community. It is now forty years since he helped to found the Real Time Club. Much more recently, Charles was a member of the Quantum Technologies Action Plan, Q-TAP, with Qinetic and the National Physical Laboratory, for the Technical Strategy […]
On Thursday 25 February, the IAP’s Marketing Manager, Tom Hohenberg, had the pleasurable duty of presenting the IAP Prize for Software Engineering to Richard Mather for his MSc dissertation at the University of Oxford*. Richard’s dissertation is entitled “A Workflow Application and XML Datastructure for Processing Geo-referenced Images”. It is of particular interest to the […]
Geoff Evelyn, FIAP enjoys over 20 years’ experience in Information Systems design, development and business IT enhancement. He is a technical evangelist specializing in SharePoint architecture, design, implementation and automation at one of the world’s largest investment banks. He also focuses on business continuity, disaster recovery and numerous related areas, all in the land of […]
