Hybrid journal (It can contain Open Access articles) ISSN (Print) 1746-5702 - ISSN (Online) 1746-5710 Published by Oxford University Press[370 journals]
Authors:Rowlands I. First page: 4 Abstract: Ian Rowlands MBCS looks into the regulatory impact of Brexit on data management and finds some painful truths and some sources of hope along the way. PubDate: 2017-05-16 DOI: 10.1093/itnow/bwx032
First page: 6 Abstract: A round-up of the best debates and observations about technology’s role in modern life, taken from the BCS Voices website. Check out the site and have your say too. PubDate: 2017-05-16 DOI: 10.1093/itnow/bwx033
Authors:Banavar G; Richards J. First page: 8 Abstract: Dr Guru Banavar, VP of Cognitive Computing at IBM Research, gave the 2017 Turing Lecture - an overview of cognitive computing - to packed audiences in London, Cardiff , Dublin and Belfast. BCS editor Justin Richards MBCS summarises some of the key points from this prestigious lecture. PubDate: 2017-05-16 DOI: 10.1093/itnow/bwx034
Authors:Mitchell J. First page: 10 Abstract: John Mitchell, Workshop Liaison, BCS Information Risk Management and Assurance Specialist Group, discusses information systems assurance from the back room to the front offi ce – a 50 year journey. PubDate: 2017-05-16 DOI: 10.1093/itnow/bwx035
Authors:Gunter S. First page: 12 Abstract: Digital transformation brings fresh opportunities to improve business processes and engage with customers in new and innovative ways. Stuart Gunter MBCS considers how secure software engineering fits into a digital transformation programme. PubDate: 2017-05-16 DOI: 10.1093/itnow/bwx036
Authors:Abeywickrama D. First page: 14 Abstract: Those who know they are inventing the future often have minimal, if any, concern for understanding what has gone before. Therefore, what can be done, and what is being done, to improve IoT privacy and security can be worlds apart. With that in mind Dinesh Abeywickrama MBCS discusses some legitimate security concerns and looks at where to start in addressing such issues. PubDate: 2017-05-16 DOI: 10.1093/itnow/bwx037
Authors:Baw M; Cooper M. First page: 16 Abstract: Dr Marcus Baw, a locum prison GP and a passionate proponent of digital health tells Martin Cooper AMBCS why NHS hackathons are solving real-world problems. PubDate: 2017-05-16 DOI: 10.1093/itnow/bwx038
Authors:Peek N; Cooper M. First page: 18 Abstract: Niels Peek tells Martin Cooper AMBCS about how northern cities are embracing learning health systems and reveals the health and care advantages they promise. PubDate: 2017-05-16 DOI: 10.1093/itnow/bwx039
First page: 24 Abstract: ‘…It is one of the tasks of BCS, by bringing together designer and user, expert and novice, to minimise the risk of future projects going astray. If Charles Babbage had been able to plan his work more surely… it is likely that computers would have been working for many decades past.’From ‘Computers and pressure cookers’ December 1957 PubDate: 2017-05-16 DOI: 10.1093/itnow/bwx042
First page: 25 Abstract: ‘…Objects for which the Society is established… the facilitation of the exchange of information and viewson the subject (of computing) and the informing of public opinion on it.’From ‘The Constitution of the Society’ April 1958 PubDate: 2017-05-16 DOI: 10.1093/itnow/bwx043
First page: 26 Abstract: There is no national recognised qualification in programming as such, but who would deny the art, the craft and scientific knowledge required for the task?January 1959 editorial comment. PubDate: 2017-05-16 DOI: 10.1093/itnow/bwx044
First page: 28 Abstract: ‘On the business side the real break-through on automatic programming has yet to come. It may need to await technical advances, but the results may well be devastating. It is not yet the valuable, readily available and powerful tool for management that it ought to be.’From The British Computer Society's Second Annual Conference, Harrogate, September 1960 issue. PubDate: 2017-05-16 DOI: 10.1093/itnow/bwx045
First page: 30 Abstract: Many achievements of modern science have quickly become a part of everyday life. Few, however, are likely to have such a direct and revolutionary effect on so many spheres of human activity as the electronic computer.An introduction to BCS, June 1961 PubDate: 2017-05-16 DOI: 10.1093/itnow/bwx046
First page: 32 Abstract: ‘The advent of computers is calling for increased attention in the field of education at levels of establishments from secondary schools through technical colleges to the universities and postgraduate research… The Society is actively and energetically formulating proposals on courses for students directly connected with computer programming and operation…’September 1962 PubDate: 2017-05-16 DOI: 10.1093/itnow/bwx047
First page: 33 Abstract: ‘Transmissions of business data between the US and other countries at high speed is predicted by computer engineers following a successful inter-continental experiment in communications between computers via the TELSTAR satellite.’‘Potential of Satellite Communications’, March 1963 PubDate: 2017-05-16 DOI: 10.1093/itnow/bwx048
First page: 34 Abstract: ‘I think the real future of successful application of computing systems will be in the realisation of useful intelligent behaviour by them and I think we have a tool for this… What do we mean by intelligence? Can machines do more than human beings? Can machines be made to be essentially human?’‘Aspects of the philosophy of computer programming’. T. Pearcey, March 1964 PubDate: 2017-05-16 DOI: 10.1093/itnow/bwx049
First page: 35 Abstract: ‘A recognised spokesman of the industry recently declared his opinion that computers will eventually be used by everybody – either by personal possession of a small computer or by easy connection to larger computers.’‘Patent protection for computer programs’, a report from the British Computer Society Law Group, March 1965 PubDate: 2017-05-16 DOI: 10.1093/itnow/bwx050
First page: 36 Abstract: ‘Five years ago it would have been difficult to point to any widespread systemic education of people working in the computer field. Today, one can see a pattern of such education arising, with awareness of the types and numbers of people which are required and of what they should be taught.’Review of recent developments in computer education, June 1967 PubDate: 2017-05-16 DOI: 10.1093/itnow/bwx051
First page: 38 Abstract: ‘Evidence that the computer is to have an increasing impact on business, industry and government in the next decades is not hard to come by. New applications and installations come into being daily, and the rate of increase of both is accelerating… A large number of people will be needed who know how to use a computer and who are skilled in computer based techniques. This has reflected directly on the need for education in these fields. Great efforts are being made to give computer training to young people…’‘The education of management’, June 1967 PubDate: 2017-05-16 DOI: 10.1093/itnow/bwx052
First page: 40 Abstract: ‘Popular writing and popular entertainment today abound in words such as cybernation, cybernauts, cybermen and cybermats. Yet, despite the recent examples of hydrogen bombs and space travel, people do not seem to realise that science fiction keeps just ahead of science fact.’‘Cybernetic thrills and threats’, Stafford Beer PubDate: 2017-05-16 DOI: 10.1093/itnow/bwx053
First page: 41 Abstract: ‘The computer is the most astonishingly powerful tool that man has ever created; the task before us is not to argue whether it will redeem us or destroy us, but to go out and take action to ensure that it is put to good use…’‘People and computers’, the 1969 Dudley Hooper Memorial Lecture, April 1969 PubDate: 2017-05-16 DOI: 10.1093/itnow/bwx054
First page: 42 Abstract: ‘We are particularly concerned with ethical standards and we have set up our own working party to consider this matter. The right to computer privacy could be considered to be added to the list of basic human rights. Such a right should state: no secret information on a computer, and right of print-out for the person to whom the computer records relate.’Lord Halsbury to the House of Lords on computer privacy. PubDate: 2017-05-16 DOI: 10.1093/itnow/bwx055
First page: 44 Abstract: ‘The Society did not consider that its responsibility ended when it had drawn the attention of the government to the urgency of the problem (privacy), and it asked its Code of Conduct Committee to consider the ethics of computer usage in relation to public welfare’BCS evidence to sub-committee for Science and Technology hearing 6 May 1971 PubDate: 2017-05-16 DOI: 10.1093/itnow/bwx056
First page: 46 Abstract: It is recommended that the Society should be the national authority on computer technology matters and should be recognised and deferred to as such by other national bodies and business concerns.Developments in the administrative structure of the BCS, February 1972 PubDate: 2017-05-16 DOI: 10.1093/itnow/bwx057
First page: 48 Abstract: ‘We must endeavour to harness the knowledge and experience of our members for the benefi t of other members, professions, computer users and society.’R L Barrington’s President’s Foreword 1973, 74 Annual Report. PubDate: 2017-05-16 DOI: 10.1093/itnow/bwx058
First page: 49 Abstract: ‘The only objective of any professional society can be to enhance its standing and ensure that it anticipates the obligations to society at large that the claim to professionalism demands of it.’Ewart Willey, Presidents Foreword, 1975 Annual Report. PubDate: 2017-05-16 DOI: 10.1093/itnow/bwx059
First page: 50 Abstract: ‘There is a need for leadership and authority in the computing world and BCS is regarded as the body most capable of satisfying that need. The image associated with such claims for leadership and authority is directly linked with the impact of computers on society in general.’Analysis of the image and role of BCS, September 1976 PubDate: 2017-05-16 DOI: 10.1093/itnow/bwx060
First page: 51 Abstract: ‘Members of the Society will appreciate that continued evidence of their determination to abide by the Code will ensure the public trust in computer professionals, which is so necessary to the effective use of computers.’Draft Code of Conduct, March 1977 PubDate: 2017-05-16 DOI: 10.1093/itnow/bwx061
First page: 52 Abstract: ‘Thirty years ago, Douglas Hartree predicted that one rather modest machine would cope with all the computing needs of this country. At the same time IBM decided not to make computers, as the total world market would be for about ten and they could not expect to sell more than six of these. Now there are tens of thousands… there will be millions… they will be taken completely for granted.’BCS President Paul Samet, March 1978 PubDate: 2017-05-16 DOI: 10.1093/itnow/bwx062
First page: 53 Abstract: ‘Professor Samet emphasised professional standards… the public was entitled to some degree of protection and should have confidence in the competence of computer practitioners.’Report on 1978 AGM, March 1979 PubDate: 2017-05-16 DOI: 10.1093/itnow/bwx063
First page: 54 Abstract: ‘Many similarities have been found between computers and the human nervous system, and even if the fact is accepted that the computer is lacking the complexity for simulating the brain, it has the advantage of speed.’From ‘Artificial intelligence and human behaviour’, June 1980 PubDate: 2017-05-16 DOI: 10.1093/itnow/bwx064
First page: 55 Abstract: ‘Project managers seldom seem to attract much attention – except, that is, when their projects are in trouble!’‘Tackling the intractable problems of project management’. March 1981 PubDate: 2017-05-16 DOI: 10.1093/itnow/bwx065
First page: 56 Abstract: ‘Government… suggested that the programmed computer, rather than the computer alone, should be regarded as the tool, and consequently, only the person responsible for running the data through the computer in order to create new work would be the author of that work.’Computing and reform or copyright protection, March 1982 PubDate: 2017-05-16 DOI: 10.1093/itnow/bwx066
First page: 58 Abstract: ‘…The social implications of the Data Protection Bill are of major public importance and the Society… has a special responsibility for seeing that the expert knowledge of its members is readily accessible.’Introduction to March 1983 Computer Bulletin. PubDate: 2017-05-16 DOI: 10.1093/itnow/bwx067
First page: 60 Abstract: ‘It may come as something of a shock to the profession to be told that the scope of software protection under English law may be in the process of being extended further than they might think appropriate; but there is a risk of the already wide and nebulous copyright protection for ideas being further still extended as a result of developments in the field of video games.’Trevor Cook, Solicitor, March 1984‘Four concepts are commonly grouped under the heading of ‘mouse technology’: the mouse itself, multiwindow screens, icons, and the ‘desk top’ metaphor. Multiple windows are not new in themselves, but when combined with the other concepts form an essential part of the new approach to end-user interfacing.’Where to now the mouse has arrived? December 1984‘When an icon is “zapped” by the mouse, it is taken as “selected” in the context of the current program.’Where to now the mouse has arrived? December 1984 PubDate: 2017-05-16 DOI: 10.1093/itnow/bwx068
First page: 62 Abstract: ‘Who could have forecast ten years ago that in 1984 you could buy a multitasking computer with 128Kb of memory and 200Kb of backing storage all built into a standard size keyboard for under £400 in your local department store!’ March 1985 PubDate: 2017-05-16 DOI: 10.1093/itnow/bwx069
First page: 64 Abstract: ‘…We need to take account of the changing needs for IT skills which will arise from new tools and approaches.’‘Skills shortages and the user’, March 1986 PubDate: 2017-05-16 DOI: 10.1093/itnow/bwx070
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