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CONNECTIONS – COMMUNITY – CAREERS

As a specialist professional body in the software development field, our members can: connect with a wide network of IT experts and professionals; list their skills and services on our Consultant Register; benefit from a regular and informative range of Webinars and, share news and ideas at one of our monthly Dev Café meetings. What […]

Wi-Fi 7 – WHAT IT IS & WHY IT MATTERS

By: Ian Barker BA, FIAP, MBCS. Most people don’t think too much about Wi-Fi. For home users it’s a case of plugging in a box that allows you to access the internet, the standard that it uses and how it works are not a consideration. Of course those of us in the technical field know […]

OBFUSCATIONS & RUMINATIONS

In July 2024 the IAP ran a webinar called ‘Programming Provoking Poetry’. Yes, poetry. If you’re thinking, how does poetry relate to the activities and concerns of the IAP and its members, you need to read the works and poems by Paul Lynham, BSc (Hons) MSc PGCE FIAP. Paul’s prose are about science, technology, biology, […]

NATIONAL TV AWARDS – MR BATES VS THE POST OFFICE

Last night at the National TV Awards, the drama about the Post Office Horizon fiasco, won 3 awards,

Toby Jones won Best Drama Performance
Mr Bates VS the Post Office won Best New Drama
Mr Bates VS the Post Office won the Impact Award

PRACTICAL USES OF AI SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

Reviewing and Refactoring Article by John Ellis FIAP Cmpn, FRSA, MBCS   While AI has been around for over half a century and probably before that, the last 2 years have seen some of the greatest leaps in the technology. This is in the main, down to the implementation of Large Language Models (LLM’s) which […]

AI. WHAT DO YOU KNOW?

The significance and presence of AI in our lives continues to grow. In February 2024 the UK’s Office for Artificial Intelligence became part of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology: