Notice Board Digital Expo 2003 is at the NEC, Birmingham from 20 to 22 May. Visit www.digitalexpo.co.uk for more details.   Internet World runs between 3 and 5 June at Earls Court, London. See www.internetworld.co.uk for information.   [Got an activity or event coming up? Email eo@iap.org.uk with the details.] ———————————————————————————————————————–Employment Exchange Southampton-based IBM mainframe […]

John Burns, MIAP last wrote in VSJ about his research for an MA in Technical Communication. He’s completed this and is now working as a Project Manager with Coventry-based Pro Enviro Ltd, under a Teaching Company Scheme (in which a university, in this case Birmingham, uses Government funding to employ people to transfer knowledge into […]

New Fellows We congratulate and welcome the following members who joined the Institution with the grade of Fellow during the latter half of 2002: Iain Buchanan Iain has had a distinguished and much longer career in the computer industry than most. He was a Senior Programmer with Sumlock Comptometer in the late sixties, then spent […]

The XML and Web Services conference and exhibition takes place at Olympia, London between 3 and 5 March. Visit www.xmlwebservices.co.uk for details. CEBIT is in Hanover, Germany from 12 to 19 March. The entire weekend (15 and 16 March) is focussed on small and medium enterprises. More details are at www.cebit.de. The Computer Trade Show […]

Notice Board Business Intelligence 2003 takes place at the Hotel Okura in Amsterdam from 3-4 February. Contact Pat Pearce on 01784 268999 or email pat.pearce@gartner.com. Legal IT 2003 is at the Business Design Centre in Islington on 12 and 13 February. Email info@legalitshow.com, phone 01491 575522 or fax 01491 575544. et2003 is at the NEC, […]

Hakiza Nzabanita, MIAP is an IT professional who has been involved in user training, support and systems implementation with an international organisation in Africa for the past 10 years. Here, he introduces a Web-based training system that, he believes, can improve users’ satisfaction with applications packages. Every day brings forth new technological advances that impact […]

The Director General, Mike Ryan, writes about some new developments of interest to members. The IAP prides itself on its commitment to responding rapidly and flexibly to changes in the IT industry. This month, we can announce two such initiatives. Licentiate Grade First, the Council has approved the creation of a new grade of member, […]

Michael D. Mitchell saw John Ellis’ comments on the missing PWS mystery and says: I was shocked to discover, on reading John Ellis’ article in the November issue of Visual Systems Journal, that XP no longer supports PWS. I recently installed it on my Win98SE PC in order to experiment with some Active Server Pages […]

Business Intelligence 2003 takes place at the Hotel Okura in Amsterdam from 3-4 February. Contact Pat Pearce on 01784 268999 or email pat.pearce@gartner.com. Legal IT 2003 is at the Business Design Centre in Islington on 12 and 13 February. Email info@legalitshow.com, phone 01491 575522 or fax 01491 575544. et2003 is at the NEC, Birmingham, from […]