Mike James has set Robin Jones thinking about programming languages… In February’s VSJ editorial, Mike James asked  – I paraphrase –, “If we (programmers) really know what we’re doing, why have we got so many ways of doing it?” This question rang a particular bell with me because I’d just been asked, as IAP Education […]

Retail Fraud 2008 is at the Novotel, Hammersmith, London on 1 May. See www.retailevents.co.uk/rf2008 for details. Green IT 08 is at the Business Design Centre, Islington, London from 7 to 8 May. Visit www.greenituk.com for more information. The Wireless Event is at Olympia Exhibition Centre, London on 21 and 22 May. There’s more at www.thewirelessevent.com. […]

Colin Mackay, MIAP is a Microsoft MVP and a Member of the BCS. He organises events for Scottish Developers in Glasgow and is currently working on their first conference, Developer Day Scotland, to be held on 10 May at Glasgow Caledonian University. Here he describes the progress both of the Scottish Developers group and of […]

IAP Spring Event When Mike Ryan described this year’s programme in February’s VSJ, there were still some i’s to dot and t’s to cross. We’re very pleased to be able to say now that Nick Ford, of Advanced Transport Systems Ltd, has agreed to join the list of speakers and he’ll be talking about the […]

Don’t Forget the IAP Spring Event on 17 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! See Members’ News for an update on the programme. Unified Communications ’08 is at Olympia, London, on 9 and 10 April. Details are at www.unifiedcommsexpo.com […]

Some time ago, we introduced to you the IAP Panel, a group of experienced Fellows whom we consult to distil an IAP View on political issues affecting IT for publication on the Civil Service Web site. This is the second article submitted. The IAP View: IT Education and Training There has been much comment in […]

Robin Jones surveys the data privacy scene. Much has been written recently on the allied topics of privacy and data security as they affect the individual citizen. There is a natural tension between the two. On the one hand, I keep my credit card details private against the possibility of their being used fraudulently. On […]

IAP Spring Seminar There are still a few places left for Thursday 17 April! For details, see last month’s IAP News. For tickets, telephone the office on 020 8 567 2118 or email admin@iap.org.uk. Unified Communications ’08 will tell you how to bridge the gap between computing and telephony. It’s at Olympia, London, on 9 […]

Last November, Council member John Ellis, FIAP introduced us to his latest futurological thoughts and posed a few pertinent questions. Here he has a go at answering them. Using The Technology – First Steps: Let’s imagine  that we are at the point where we have the ability for a human being to interface with a […]

The Director General, Mike Ryan, tells us about this year’s Spring Seminar at the London Transport Museum, Covent Garden. Last year’s very successful event on HMS Belfast proved a hard act to follow, but we believe we have come up with a formula that combines the novelty of the Belfast programme with the more traditional […]