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VSJ – May 2009 – Work in Progress

Mike Ryan, the IAP’s Director General, has some very pertinent tips, given the current economic climate, for those considering starting their own businesses. Being an employee is in many ways a sheltered existence. Coming out from under the umbrella and setting up in business on your own account means you have to start doing things […]

VSJ – May 2009 – Members’ News

Dr Peter M Ashby, MB, BS, DRCOG, FIAP (Cmpn) is standing for re-election to the IAP Council this year. Here, he re-introduces himself to us. I qualified in Medicine at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, in London in 1960 and from 1980 worked on the writing and developing of medical databases for use in primary care and […]

VSJ – May 2009 – Sounding Board

Robin Jones worries about our inability to foretell the future or, in the more extreme cases, the present. It’s exactly 50 years since Arthur Koestler published ‘The Sleepwalkers’. For anyone unfamiliar with the book (and, if you are, I’d heartily recommend a quick trip to Amazon) it’s a fascinating history of Western science, especially astronomy, […]

VSJ – May 2009 – Notice Board

Green IT 09 is at the Business Design Centre, Islington, London from 6 to 7 May. Visit www.greenituk.com for more information. SCL Information Governance Conference – Managing identity in a digital world is on 12 May at Mayfair Conference Centre, Marble Arch, London. See www.scl.org for further details. Wireless and Mobile 09 is at Olympia […]

Web tool 'as important as Google'

A web tool that “could be as important as Google”, according to some experts, has been shown off to the public. Wolfram Alpha is the brainchild of British-born physicist Stephen Wolfram. The free program aims to answer questions directly, rather than display web pages in response to a query like a search engine. The “computational […]

Optical disc offers 500GB storage

General Electric announce a 500GB optical disk. Optical discs have been a leading storage solution for decades A disc that can store 500 gigabytes (GB) of data, equivalent to 100 DVDs, has been unveiled by General Electric. The micro-holographic disc, which is the same size as existing DVD discs, is aimed at the archive industry. […]

VSJ – April 2009 – Work in Progress

Andrew McKay, MIAP recently offered to set up the IAP’s Official Group on LinkedIn, an offer the Council was happy to accept. Here, he talks about LinkedIn in general, LinkedIn Groups and a little about himself. The birth of the Internet has taken place within the lifetime of many of the readers of this article. […]

VSJ – April 2009 – Members’ News

Council Elections As reported in February, the deadline for nominations for election to the Council was the end of the month, so we now know who wishes to serve for the next three years. Between now and July, each nominee will have the opportunity to introduce (or re-introduce) him or herself through these pages. This […]

VSJ – April 2009 – Sounding Board

Council member Dr Peter Ashby, FIAP has lately been thinking about fraud. He looks at ways of preventing it than responding after the event. As analysts, we may be asked to investigate suspected fraud. Sometimes we find evidence of it and on other occasions we can only say that the results are inconclusive. Whatever the […]

VSJ – April 2009 – Notice Board

Don’t Forget the IAP Spring Conference on 24 April. Full details are in February’s VSJ (and at www.iap.org.uk). There are still a few places available but you’ll need to hurry! Open Source in the Public Sector is at Inmarsat, London on 22 April. See www.kablenet.com for details. Infosecurity Europe is at Earl’s Court, London from […]