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VSJ – July 2005 – Notice Board

Microsoft’s TechEd Europe runs between 5 and 8 July in Amsterdam. See www.mseventseurope.com/teched/05/pre/content/ for details. The Mobility Summit examines the benefits and pitfalls of mobilising technology to achieve competitive advantage. It’s at Victoria Park Plaza, Vauxhall Bridge Road, London on 11 and 12 July. Visit www.cnetnetworks.co.uk/etf/mobility/ for more. [Got an activity or event coming up? […]

Member News

Email Redirection Now and then we remind members of services we offer that may have slipped their memories. This month? note is about your right to an email address of the form @iap.org.uk. Our scheme works like most such facilities. You apply for an IAP email address via the members?area of the Web site. Once […]

VSJ – June 2005 – Work in Progress

Council member John Weller has a longstanding interest in the history of computing. Here he describes one of the earliest attempts to design an automatic calculator. Is that a ‘work in progress’, you ask? Well, it was never finished… Almost everyone who has been involved with computers will have heard of Charles Babbage, ‘the father […]

VSJ – June 2005 – Members’ News

Email Redirection Now and then we remind members of services we offer that may have slipped their memories. This month’s note is about your right to an email address of the form <yourname>@iap.org.uk. Our scheme works like most such facilities. You apply for an IAP email address via the members’ area of the Web site. […]

VSJ – June 2005 – Sounding Board

Council member John Ellis, FIAP wrote an article in last March’s VSJ which, he fondly imagined, described castles in the air. Here he points us at two recent reports that show that some of the castles are already drying concrete. Following my recent fantasy foray on the use of electronics to interface with the brain […]

VSJ – June 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 […]

VSJ – June 2005 – Notice Board

Gartner’s Application Integration & Web Development Services Summit is at the Palau De Congressos de Catalunya in Barcelona from 13-14 June. See www.gartner.com/2_events/conferences for more. INTERNET WORLD 2005, Internet Conference and Exhibition, is at Earls Court, London, from 14 – 16 June. See www.penton.com for details. GC 2005, the Government Computing Conference and Exhibition, is […]

Annual Symposium

As regular readers know, Council member Paul Lynham traditionally writes a report on the annual symposium to which we devote the whole of ?AP News? Here is this year?. The annual symposium of the Institution of Analysts and Programmers was held on Thursday, 11 March in Trinity House, Tower Hill, London. Mike Ryan, the Director […]

VSJ – May 2005 – Symposium Report

As regular readers know, Council member Paul Lynham traditionally writes a report on the annual symposium to which we devote the whole of ‘IAP News’. Here’s this year’s. The annual symposium of the Institution of Analysts and Programmers was held on Thursday, 11 March in Trinity House, Tower Hill, London. Mike Ryan, the Director General […]

Member News

We congratulate David Deeks, FIAP who writes elsewhere on these pages, on his elevation to the rank of Professor at Sunderland University. Edwin Keen, BEng MSc FIAP is standing for re-election to the Council this year. He talks about himself and his aims below. I am one of the earliest Fellows still in the Institution, […]