In his final article on Relativity, Terry Longhurst, FIAP proposes an alternative way of thinking about space. When discussing the ‘Longhurst experiment’ last month, I said “there is no discrepancy in how much time has actually passed for Alice and Betty, it’s just the time signals that are out of sync”. However, it is important […]
Virginia Luckett MSc After more than fifteen years in various full and part time roles, Virginia has finally shed her responsibilities with the IAP. For some time now her duties have been limited to writing minutes and helping organise Council meetings and the Symposium. In future Anne Harding will take over these responsibilities. When the […]
Council Member Paul Lynham, FIAP kicks off our new-look Sounding Board (see October’s VSJ) with a review of PDF Creator. Other than tools for application development (where I tend to use the most advanced features), I usually fall into to the 80% of the 80/20 rule i.e. 80% of the users only use 20% of […]
Kayode Taiwo, MIAP is an analyst/programmer working in Cape Town, South Africa. He has wide experience including .NET, C/C++, VB, Java, PHP and SQL Server. He also has hardware and network design experience. He is seeking UK business and technical partners in a software venture to be based in the UK. He would also welcome […]
The 5th Annual Society for Computers and the Law Conference: ‘IT Project Procurement & Outsourcing’ is at The Randolph Hotel, Oxford, from 11 to 12 November. Contact Caroline Gould on 01179 237393 or see www.scl.org for more. Online Information and Content Management Europe are at Grand Hall, Olympia, London between 29 November and 1 December. […]
Terry Longhurst, FIAP continues his celebration of the centenary of Einstein’s seminal paper on Special Relativity. This month he examines how much we really know about the nature of electromagnetic radiation. Albert Einstein’s original theory of relativity was based on two ideas: the concept and principle of relativity. However these proved to be incompatible. Einstein […]
Christopher Hill, FIAP Members who knew him, and all who have benefited from the work he has done with the Institution Web site, will regret the untimely death of the IAP’s Webmaster Chris Hill. Chris died suddenly and quite unexpectedly of a stroke, shortly before his fiftieth birthday. Trained as an electrical engineer, Chris went […]
Robin Jones previews a change to the format of ‘Sounding Board’ When I introduced the IAP pages in VSJ just over six years ago now, I wrote ‘Sounding Board will be IAP members’ opportunity to get things off their chests’. So it will remain. We welcome members’ views on the industry and its foibles, the […]
Craig Golby, MCMI MIAP is a Project Manager and Business Analyst with 17 years’ financial services experience, knowledgeable in mortgages, loans, credit/store cards and general banking. Companies worked for include Paragon (National Home Loans), CIBC Mortgages plc, Beneficial Bank, HFC Bank and Alliance & Leicester. He has experience with Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, Java, JSP, […]
Storage Expo is at Olympia, London on 12 and 13 October. See www.storage-expo.com for details. The CSIA Information Assurance Roadshow is at Leeds Town Hall on 25 October and at Cardiff Town Hall on 31 October. See www.kablenet.com/ke.nsf for more. [Got an activity or event coming up? Email eo@iap.org.uk with the details.]
