Every year, Council member Paul Lynham, FIAP writes a review of the Annual Symposium. As this year’s marked the Institution’s 30th anniversary, we decided to devote the whole of this month’s IAP News to it. Mike Ryan, the Director General, opened proceedings with a summary of events leading up to the Institution’s formation. He recalled […]

Last month, Jim Bates, the IAP President, described the facts behind a court case in which he was engaged as a computer forensic expert by the defence. You may recall that the case was about the downloading of Internet paedophiliac pornography and that it hinged on the inability of the prosecution to prove who had […]

The Director General, Mike Ryan, writes about IAP recruitment and the continuing saga of Miller Fisher and the direct debits. New incentives to get your friends into the IAP Readers who are amused (or occasionally enraged!) by the Institution’s advertisements in the computer press might be surprised to know that most people who join the […]

Council Member John Ellis, FIAP has a bone to pick with Microsoft. Surely shome mishtake? Summer’s nearly over, the kids are back at school and the roads are jam-packed again with mothers dropping the little ones off, parking on double yellow lines or other convenient spots; a good time, I thought, to do some upgrades […]

Events Internet World, Manchester is at the G-Mex Centre on the 6th and 7th November. See www.internetworld.co.uk/manchester for more. Caretower and Network Associates are organising a free seminar entitled ‘Information Security Futures Forum 2002’ on 14 November at Bletchley Park, Milton Keynes. See www.caretower.com/securityforum.htm for details. The mysteriously titled ‘Grid Computing in Bio-Pharma’ runs from […]

Several police investigations involving paedophiliac Internet pornography have been reported lately. By and large, they have not held general lessons for the IT community as a whole. However, a case in which Jim Bates, the IAP President, acted as an expert witness should inform our collective thinking. Here, he sets the scene. Next month, he’ll […]

IAP30 There are a few tickets left for this year’s Annual Symposium at Trinity House, London on Thursday, 10th of October. So, if you’d like one, phone the office now on 020 8 567 2118 or email admin@iap.org.uk. New Fellows We are pleased to welcome two new Fellows: Henry Nash BSc (Hons) Henry worked initially […]

Robin Jones mourns the death of the Father of Structured Programming. Edsger Dijkstra died recently. On hearing the news, I was transported back almost thirty years to when I first read his ‘Notes on Structured Programming’. I’d noticed it because of an intriguing chapter heading: ‘On Our Inability To Do Much’. And then I became […]

Placement Request Warren Hughes, an IAP student member, has just completed an HND in IT. He transfers to the 3rd year Computing Science Degree at Staffordshire University this autumn. He’s looking for an eight-month work placement from January 2003. If you can help, please contact me (eo@iap.org.uk). Events BPM2002: The Process Managed Enterprise conference takes […]

Bill Cleary, of Global Knowledge, has written before in these pages about IT training issues. Here, he talks about Blended Learning Solutions, which he calls the next revolution. The Industrial Revolution changed the way people earned their living, heralding the age of mass-production and giving consumers greater choice. The computer revolution moved the computer from […]