The IAP at 50. Reflections from an IAP Member. This story sounds better when told. But here goes… It concerns a Pick system. Pick used file hashing based upon a given module number. The speed of the file search depended upon having this value correctly specified when the file was first created. At the time, […]
The IAP at 50. Reflections from an IAP Member. I started out as a programmer in 1981 for a software house who wrote bespoke systems and installed 3rd party software for DEC/Systime systems for customers. My first application was for a bespoke invoicing system for a new customer. The customer also had installed the Systime […]
The IAP at 50. Reflections from Dane Bradley-Carter FIAP. The first time I ever programmed a computer was at my secondary school in about 1979. That’s not to say it was the first time I had ever been in the presence of one, because and older relative had taken me to work one day at […]
The IAP at 50. Reflections from Emeritus Professor Peter Smith FIAP, University of Sunderland. In 1978, I embarked upon a PhD in mathematics. My project was to develop a mathematical model of the human body in order to predict the heat flow within and from a human being. This involved using something called the finite […]
The IAP at 50. Reflections from John Davis, Fellow. My own early years saw computers become available and then essential. During this time I have maintained civil, mechanical, water and environmental interests and been glad to support IAP which linked such interests whilst I was abroad for so many years. I joined when Bob Charles […]
The IAP at 50. Reflections from Andy Faithfull FIAP. In the late ’70s I was a sponsored student at a large, now defunct, defence company. I worked my gap year there before starting my B.Sc. Most of my time during that year was taken up by building circuit boards for an IM6100 microprocessor system. The […]
