This month, we’re previewing the Annual Symposium (see Notice Board). As usual, the speakers are experts in their fields and their chosen topics fascinating and current, as you’ll see from the résumés below. Trinity House is a beautiful venue, as the photograph suggests, but it isn’t huge. So make your reservations fast! Designing and Building […]

Nominations for the Council of the IAP The Institution is a democratic body governed by a Council elected by and from its members. Five members of the 15-strong Council retire in rotation each year. Nominations for the 2006 election, accompanied by the nominee’s manifesto (in electronic form and not exceeding 150 words, please) must be […]

As Council member John Weller has revealed before, he has a longstanding interest in the history of computing. Here, he reviews James Essinger’s ‘Jacquard’s Web’. Arguably the first programmable machine was a loom built by the son of a French silk worker in Lyons. Lyons was the capital of the silk industry in France and […]

Darren Brook, MIAP is an experienced software developer. He has experience in systems analysis, database design and software development. Latest technical skills include .Net, VB, SQL Server, Crystal Reports, ADO, HTML, XML and COM. He is currently available for work and can e-mailed at darrenbrook@btconnect.com [Want your entry printed here? Email eo@iap.org.uk with the details.]

The IAP Annual Symposium is at Trinity House, Tower Hill, London on Thursday, 16 March. Tickets are £70 per delegate (members) and £100 (non-members). Contact the Office on 020 8 5672118 for reservations. See Work in Progress for detailed information about the presentations. LegalIT 2006 is at the Business Design Centre, Upper Street, Islington, London, […]

Ian JA Walker, FIAP starts a two-part article picking up on and developing the theme of e-Crime raised by Robin Jones in September’s Sounding Board. I am no expert in criminality but it seems to me that ‘Johnnie Computer-Criminal’ has but a simple mission statement he shares with all criminals, namely to make as much […]

Introducing IT 4 Wales Ian Walker, FIAP, who writes elsewhere on these pages this month, launched a new e-shop a few weeks ago. It’s called ‘IT 4 Wales’ (go to www.it4wales.co.uk). Ian says, “We use a quite different approach to that of many who try to corner people into e-shopping by advertising whopping discounts for […]

Robin Jones makes a virtue of necessity and test-drives Kanotix. Recently, my Sony notebook fell over. It had been misbehaving for some time, failing to shut down prettily and so on. Finally it died. So I decided to reinstall Windows. Sony provides a recovery CD that restores the hard disk to its ex-factory state so […]

Dean Wakerley, MSc MIAP is available for employment as embedded software engineer preferably developing Digital TV STB/PVR (set top box /video recorder) software. Two years’ STB experience (user interface and drivers) and 15 years experience as software engineer and IT manager. First class Sw Eng masters degree (Dec 2005). Fluent in many programming languages to […]