The IAP Prize for Best Software Development Project Regular readers may remember that, exactly a year ago, we announced in these pages the inauguration of the IAP Software Development Prize for final year university undergraduates. In the same issue, we reported that the University of Plymouth had been selected as the first to be offered […]

Hold the Front Page (and Subscriptions)! You don’t need us to tell you that the economic portents are as gloomy as anyone can remember. We’re conscious that IAP members are feeling the pain like everyone else. So despite the increased costs that we’ve incurred over the last year as a result of rising inflation, we’ve […]

Council member John Ellis, FIAP has some thoughts on Code Optimisation and Re-Factoring I’ve recently been working on adding new functionality and rules to a large ISA system. As part of these changes I was amending some Visual Basic code when I came across something like this: IF p=q THEN ‘               Do X ‘               Do […]

IAP Spring Seminar 2009: Advance Notice Following two very successful events on HMS Belfast and at the Covent Garden Transport Museum, we’re moving a little eastward next year and alighting at the Museum in Docklands on West India Quay. It all happens on Friday 24 April, so make a note in your dairy. Tickets are […]

The IAP Prize for Best Software Development Project Regular readers may remember that, exactly a year ago, we announced in these pages the inauguration of the IAP Software Development Prize for final year university undergraduates. In the same issue, we reported that the University of Plymouth had been selected as the first to be offered […]

Hold the Front Page (and Subscriptions)! You don’t need us to tell you that the economic portents are as gloomy as anyone can remember. We’re conscious that IAP members are feeling the pain like everyone else. So despite the increased costs that we’ve incurred over the last year as a result of rising inflation, we’ve […]

Council member John Ellis, FIAP has some thoughts on Code Optimisation and Re-Factoring I’ve recently been working on adding new functionality and rules to a large ISA system. As part of these changes I was amending some Visual Basic code when I came across something like this: IF p=q THEN ‘               Do X ‘               Do […]

IAP Spring Seminar 2009: Advance Notice Following two very successful events on HMS Belfast and at the Covent Garden Transport Museum, we’re moving a little eastward next year and alighting at the Museum in Docklands on West India Quay. It all happens on Friday 24 April, so make a note in your dairy. Tickets are […]

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 […]