ITNOWPub Date : 2024-02-15DOI: 10.1093/itnow/bwae034
B. Runciman
{"title":"BCS' Royal Charter: The Real 1984","authors":"B. Runciman","doi":"10.1093/itnow/bwae034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/itnow/bwae034","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Despite the jeremiad feel of the year 1984, it marked a key milestone for BCS. This was when the royal charter, now hitting its 40th anniversary, was granted. Brian Runciman MBCS takes a look back at the process.","PeriodicalId":100735,"journal":{"name":"ITNOW","volume":"6 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139963081","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ITNOWPub Date : 2024-02-15DOI: 10.1093/itnow/bwae008
C. Penketh
{"title":"BCS News, Impact and Influence","authors":"C. Penketh","doi":"10.1093/itnow/bwae008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/itnow/bwae008","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The BCS Policy and Press team had their finger on the pulse during autumn and the beginning of the year commenting on top technology stories ranging from the Post Office scandal to the AI Summit. Claire Penketh reports.","PeriodicalId":100735,"journal":{"name":"ITNOW","volume":"3 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139963389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ITNOWPub Date : 2024-02-15DOI: 10.1093/itnow/bwae032
Emily Johnstone
{"title":"Strawberry Fields","authors":"Emily Johnstone","doi":"10.1093/itnow/bwae032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/itnow/bwae032","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Food production isn't the first sector that comes to mind when we think of technology. To remedy that, third year PhD student at the University of Reading, Emily Johnstone, explains how tuneable LED lighting is advancing research into fruit crop growth.","PeriodicalId":100735,"journal":{"name":"ITNOW","volume":"9 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139963591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ITNOWPub Date : 2024-02-15DOI: 10.1093/itnow/bwae018
Grant Powell
{"title":"Award Winning Software Testing","authors":"Grant Powell","doi":"10.1093/itnow/bwae018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/itnow/bwae018","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Ryan James, Managing Director of nFocus recently spoke to Grant Powell MBCS about the importance of training top software testing talent and achieving success at the IT Industry Awards.","PeriodicalId":100735,"journal":{"name":"ITNOW","volume":"32 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139963099","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ITNOWPub Date : 2024-02-15DOI: 10.1093/itnow/bwae011
B. Runciman
{"title":"Popular Computer Science #Popcompsci","authors":"B. Runciman","doi":"10.1093/itnow/bwae011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/itnow/bwae011","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Popular science is a well-used term – can we popularise computer science? That's the plan… welcome to a new section of ITNOW.","PeriodicalId":100735,"journal":{"name":"ITNOW","volume":"19 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139963427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ITNOWPub Date : 2024-02-15DOI: 10.1093/itnow/bwae022
Martin Cooper
{"title":"FeatureTech Tourism: Inside a Data Centre","authors":"Martin Cooper","doi":"10.1093/itnow/bwae022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/itnow/bwae022","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Martin Cooper MBCS slips on his winter coat and visits the Stellium data centre in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, a place famous for football, bridges and – it transpires – highly desirable levels of rain and cold.","PeriodicalId":100735,"journal":{"name":"ITNOW","volume":"19 14","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139962789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ITNOWPub Date : 2024-02-15DOI: 10.1093/itnow/bwae007
Martin Cooper
{"title":"Steering AI in the Right Direction","authors":"Martin Cooper","doi":"10.1093/itnow/bwae007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/itnow/bwae007","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The 43rd BCS Specialist Group for Artificial Intelligence conference saw delegates, keynote speakers, students and academics meet, share, debate and learn. Martin Cooper MBCS reports from Peterhouse, Cambridge.","PeriodicalId":100735,"journal":{"name":"ITNOW","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139963057","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ITNOWPub Date : 2024-02-15DOI: 10.1093/itnow/bwae001
Andrea Pillai
{"title":"Feeding the World Through Food Tech","authors":"Andrea Pillai","doi":"10.1093/itnow/bwae001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/itnow/bwae001","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Andrea Pillai, founder of Aider Ventures and author of the newsletter Tech x NonTech, provides her thoughts on technology's capabilities when it comes to digitally transforming the food industry to sustainably feed a growing population.","PeriodicalId":100735,"journal":{"name":"ITNOW","volume":"4 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139963089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ITNOWPub Date : 2024-02-15DOI: 10.1093/itnow/bwae009
B. Runciman
{"title":"Diversity 2023: The Missing 756,000","authors":"B. Runciman","doi":"10.1093/itnow/bwae009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/itnow/bwae009","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Last year the BCS analysis of the ONS IT labour market data showed there were a potential 754,000 workers missing from the IT industry. For 2023, that number didn't improve. Brian Runciman MBCS reports.","PeriodicalId":100735,"journal":{"name":"ITNOW","volume":"18 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139963275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ITNOWPub Date : 2024-02-15DOI: 10.1093/itnow/bwae017
Georgia Smith
{"title":"Climate Change, Evolution and AI Art","authors":"Georgia Smith","doi":"10.1093/itnow/bwae017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/itnow/bwae017","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Award winning digital artist, Paul Brown, offers a personal perspective on how AI could grow closer to achieving sentience, its relationship to human evolution, and how it might be impacted by climate change.","PeriodicalId":100735,"journal":{"name":"ITNOW","volume":"18 25","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139962833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}