In an uncertain world, it’s nice to know that there are some things you can rely on. One of them is that Paul Lynham will write the report on the IAP’s Spring Event. However, there is a change this year. We can’t introduce him just as ‘Council member’ any longer, because he is now Vice […]

We welcome a new Fellow Thomas Rushton BSc(Hons) Thomas Rushton is an IT manager with extensive experience in workflow and document management systems for financial and legal institutions. Qualifying at Durham in 1993, he started work as Research Officer with RMCS Shrivenham, then moved to Bradford Pennine Insurance where he remained until 1997. As Systems […]

Enterprise Unified Communications 2008 Forum is at the Inmarsat Conference Centre, 99 City Road, London EC1on Wednesday, 2nd July. See www.ibaforum.co.uk for more details. London Connects 2008 is at QEII Conference Centre, London on 8 July. See www.kablenet.com for details. The 14th International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientists takes place in Lille from 15 […]

Maggie Berry runs womenintechnology.co.uk, an on-line job board and networking forum for women working in the technology profession in the UK. The network has over 3,000 members and the job board is helping a wide range of investment banks and technology firms to recruit more women into their IT divisions. Here, she talks about her […]

Mike Ryan, the IAP’s Director General, talks about the Institution’s Gender Balance As with most of the IT industry – and technology-based enterprise in general – the ratio of female to male IAP members is low. In the past, we have consoled ourselves with the observations that it is higher in the senior grades and […]

Robin Jones muses on authentication mechanisms and their foibles. There’s general agreement that passwords aren’t up to the security job with which they are still largely entrusted. Biometrics and multi-factor identification are the current great white hopes. But there aren’t really that many options. You can be something (a biometric), you can know something (a […]

Steven Cholerton FIAP has left his previous employment of 9 years as IT Manager and board member at Utopia Furniture Limited and has started his own business as a Consultant / Contractor specialising in Database / Software Development and Security. Steven is a  Member of the BCS, a Chartered Information Technology Professional and is certified […]

GC 2008expodescribes itself as the leading UK public sector IT event. It’s on at Earls Court, London from 10 to 11 June. Full details are at www.gcexpo.com. The Society for Computers and Law is hosting a meeting in Manchester on 19 June on Current Issues in .uk Domain Name Disputes. There’s more at www.scl.org. [Got […]

David Burns, MIAP was recently appointed Associate Director of IT Services at IN Partnership, overseeing the smooth operation of the IT infrastructure while heading the development and implementation of new systems. Here he describes his philosophy on IT Customer Service and how to make it fit the business. Not long ago my youngest daughter explained […]

Council members Martin Doe and Edwin Keen are both seeking re-election this year. They talk about themselves and the Institution below. I’ve been in the field of programming and analysis for most of my time since 1988, when I left full-time education. Much of my experience has been in the area of database programming, particularly using […]