New Fellows Michael Toole BSc We are pleased to welcome Michael Toole, who joined us in November. Though in recent years Mike has been self-employed, the foundations of his career were laid at IBM, where he worked for 25 years, starting in the late sixties. Initially employed in the UK as an analyst/programmer on mainframe […]

Ken Haynes’ article last month on Microsoft’s Product Activation system set me thinking. Ken expects PA will become a de facto standard and users will come to accept it without demur. I guess Microsoft thinks that too. Well, maybe. Allow me an anecdote. Twenty years ago, I bought some PCs for the college at which […]

The 2nd Wireless Internet Summit runs from March 6th to 7th. Ring 0207 830 1020 or email weurope_customerservice@economist.com for details. [Got an activity or event coming up? Email eo@iap.org.uk with the details.]

Notice Board   Training Ratio Group, who provide object and component training and consultancy, have announced a new on-site training passport scheme. Targeted at smaller companies looking to get greater value for money from their training budgets, the scheme offers on-site training in subjects such as XML, C++, Java, EJBs, C#. Net, UML and VB.Net. […]

Ken Haynes FIAP has been involved in systems design and development for PCs for 21 years. He is currently developing in Dephi 6. Here, he writes about Microsoft’s Product Activation system and asks, ‘Is it a passing phase or a future standard?’ Windows XP is arguably the most significant release of Windows since Windows 95, […]

SCALE 21: The Next Phase A Conference entitled “Building Britain’s Brainpower” will take place on Monday 11th February 2002 in the Faraday Theatre of the Royal Institution, Albemarle Street, London W1, starting at 10.30 a.m. It will bring together over 450 IT leaders and entrepreneurs to review the pathfinder research of the three SCALE21 working […]

Council member Paul Lynham, FIAP may not have a bee in his bonnet, but it sounds as if he’d like one…. Some studies have shown that people living in industrialised societies may spend up to 90% of their lives indoors. Okay, you may think, with the British weather that’s not so bad. However, the same […]

Training Ratio Group, who provide object and component training and consultancy, have announced a new on-site training passport scheme. Targeted at smaller companies looking to get greater value for money from their training budgets, the scheme offers on-site training in subjects such as XML, C++, Java, EJBs, C#. Net, UML and VB.Net. Get further details […]

John Burns, AMIAP has spent seven years in software development after his BSc in Information Systems and a MSc in Software Engineering. Not content with this, he’s now completing an MA in Technical Authorship. He’s working on a dissertation that is focussed on modifying IS modelling tools (like DFDs and ELHs) so that they’re easier […]

The Director General Writes Perhaps I am a closet optimist (though my wife always says I am a “glass half empty” man!). Certainly re-reading last year’s Christmas message to you all, I seem to have been expecting 2001 to be a rather more upbeat year than we’ve actually had. Compared with some governments I can […]