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VSJ – September 2005 – Members’ News

Notice of Annual General Meeting The Institution’s 2005 AGM will be on Saturday, 22 October, at Boundary House, Boston Road, Hanwell W7 2QE, starting at 12.00 noon. The AGM is usually a short meeting, its purpose being merely to fulfil a requirement of the Companies Acts, but all members of the Institution are welcome to […]

VSJ – September 2005 – Sounding Board

Robin Jones plans a major heist… In one of the ‘Saint’ books, Leslie Charteris’ hero says “If everyone in the country gave me sixpence, nobody would miss it and I’d be a millionaire”. The logic of this statement is impeccable, provided you remember that he was talking about 6d not 6p. And the population’s risen, […]

VSJ – September 2005 – Employment Exchange

Kanthy Konnanath, MIAP is an analyst/programmer experienced in client/server architecture. Areas of expertise include Visual Basic 6, Crystal Reports 4.6 and RDBMS like INFORMIX (4JS), SQL Server 7 and ORACLE 7. She has over 6 years’ experience in Database Designing, Development, Analysis and Programming. Sectors worked in include a software company and Banking. Currently, she’s […]

VSJ – September 2005 – Notice Board

The Gartner IT Security Summit is at the Royal Lancaster Hotel London from 14 to 15 September. bPPm (Business Performance and Project Management) is at Hall 18 NEC, Birmingham on 12 and 13 October. See www.bppm.com for more. [Got an activity or event coming up? Email eo@iap.org.uk with the details.]

Work in Progress

Readers may know that 2005 is the centenary of Einstein? seminal paper on Special Relativity. Over the next few months, Terry Longhurst, FIAP takes the opportunity to develop his distinctive, maybe unique, ideas about the theory from, as he says, an analyst? standpoint. This month he sets the scene. As a technical manager in a […]

Member News

We are pleased to welcome the following new Fellows, who have recently been admitted to the Institution: Ciaran McDonnell BSc MSc PhD Dr. McDonnell is an Irish academic. He took his first degree at University College, Dublin, in 1972. The distinguished academic career that followed, as Researcher and Lecturer at University College, Trinity College, Dublin […]

VSJ – July 2005 – Work in Progress

Readers may know that 2005 is the centenary of Einstein’s seminal paper on Special Relativity. Over the next few months, Terry Longhurst, FIAP takes the opportunity to develop his distinctive, maybe unique, ideas about the theory from, as he says, an analyst’s standpoint. This month he sets the scene. As a technical manager in a […]

VSJ – July 2005 – Members’ News

We are pleased to welcome the following new Fellows, who have recently been admitted to the Institution Ciaran McDonnell BSc MSc PhD Dr. McDonnell is an Irish academic. He took his first degree at University College, Dublin, in 1972. The distinguished academic career that followed, as Researcher and Lecturer at University College, Trinity College, Dublin […]

VSJ – July 2005 – Sounding Board

Robin Jones frets about security threats from apparently innocent sources. Apple’s iPod has been causing a stir in numerous forums lately. There are the obvious concerns regarding P2P and DRM issues of course. But a more interesting question (to me, anyway) concerns its potential use in business espionage. iPods – and most other USB devices […]

VSJ – July 2005 – Employment Exchange

Darren Brook, MIAP is a freelance software developer. He has extensive experience in systems analysis, database design and software development. Latest technical skills include .Net, SQL Server, Crystal Reports, ADO, HTML, XML and COM. He is currently available for work and can be e-mailed at darrenbrook@btconnect.com [Want your entry printed here? Email eo@iap.org.uk with the […]