ITNOWPub Date : 2023-08-23DOI: 10.1093/itnow/bwad084
Georgia N. Smith
{"title":"Reading Digital Skills Network","authors":"Georgia N. Smith","doi":"10.1093/itnow/bwad084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/itnow/bwad084","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The latest BCS Digital Skills Network event headed to Reading in June, attended by over 100 delegates. The event included speakers from industry, education, training providers, and some apprentices. Georgia Smith reports.","PeriodicalId":100735,"journal":{"name":"ITNOW","volume":"118 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89353158","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 : 2023-08-23DOI: 10.1093/itnow/bwad098
Roxanne Showell
{"title":"Disruption and Operational Resilience","authors":"Roxanne Showell","doi":"10.1093/itnow/bwad098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/itnow/bwad098","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Roxanne Showell, Principal Consultant at Roxwell Consulting, discusses how embracing service transition management can help organisations build resilience and cope with unexpected events.","PeriodicalId":100735,"journal":{"name":"ITNOW","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89401145","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 : 2023-08-23DOI: 10.1093/itnow/bwad103
M. Cooper
{"title":"From Particle Physics to Micro:Bits","authors":"M. Cooper","doi":"10.1093/itnow/bwad103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/itnow/bwad103","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Particle physicist Dr Julie Kirk coordinates ATLAS trigger software releases and validation. She tells Martin Cooper MBCS about the best day in her working life and why working with schools is so important.","PeriodicalId":100735,"journal":{"name":"ITNOW","volume":"60 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87155738","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 : 2023-08-23DOI: 10.1093/itnow/bwad093
B. Clarke
{"title":"SIGiST23: A Community to Foster Innovation","authors":"B. Clarke","doi":"10.1093/itnow/bwad093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/itnow/bwad093","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 BCS' Special Interest Group in Software Testing (SIGiST) hosts an annual conference that brings together industry leaders and experts on topics related to testing and quality. Beth Clarke MBCS reports on the highlights of the recent BCS SIGiST event.","PeriodicalId":100735,"journal":{"name":"ITNOW","volume":"53 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89206797","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 : 2023-08-23DOI: 10.1093/itnow/bwad097
M. Cooper
{"title":"Supporting IT Teaching in Africa","authors":"M. Cooper","doi":"10.1093/itnow/bwad097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/itnow/bwad097","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 From moribund to Malawi: Martin Cooper MBCS reports on the ITSA Digital Trust, a charity which collects unwanted PCs, upcycles them and delivers them to African schools.","PeriodicalId":100735,"journal":{"name":"ITNOW","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77836145","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 : 2023-08-23DOI: 10.1093/itnow/bwad099
Grant Powell
{"title":"The Evolution of the Sustainable, Intelligent City","authors":"Grant Powell","doi":"10.1093/itnow/bwad099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/itnow/bwad099","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Grant Powell MBCS spoke to Professor Julie McGann, Head of the Adaptive Emergent Systems Engineering (AESE) group at the Imperial College London's Department of Computing to discuss how data-driven insights can help to develop greener, cleaner cities.","PeriodicalId":100735,"journal":{"name":"ITNOW","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79192539","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 : 2023-08-23DOI: 10.1093/itnow/bwad094
B. Runciman
{"title":"Ukraine, Fostering Resilience, and the Importance of Preparedness","authors":"B. Runciman","doi":"10.1093/itnow/bwad094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/itnow/bwad094","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Over a year into the war in Ukraine, BCS spoke to experts from IT Ukraine Association and the UK about what we have learned about IT resilience, what Ukraine is still able to offer, and the implications for the role of IT technology in society. The webinar was chaired by Brian Runciman MBCS, BCS' Head of Content and Insight.","PeriodicalId":100735,"journal":{"name":"ITNOW","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83380612","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 : 2023-08-23DOI: 10.1093/itnow/bwad104
Christina Lovelock
{"title":"Business Analysis","authors":"Christina Lovelock","doi":"10.1093/itnow/bwad104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/itnow/bwad104","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Christina Lovelock MBCS explores the importance of organisational agility as the key to resilience.","PeriodicalId":100735,"journal":{"name":"ITNOW","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135520492","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 : 2023-08-23DOI: 10.1093/itnow/bwad092
Richard G Mann
{"title":"Business Risk and User-Created Solutions","authors":"Richard G Mann","doi":"10.1093/itnow/bwad092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/itnow/bwad092","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Ensuring solutions created by end users are fit for purpose is critically important, particularly in regulated industries. Richard G Mann FMAAT MIAP MBCS explores processes and policies that can help reduce risk.","PeriodicalId":100735,"journal":{"name":"ITNOW","volume":"107 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73546244","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 : 2023-08-23DOI: 10.1093/itnow/bwad083
J. Burn
{"title":"Calculating and Computing the Weather","authors":"J. Burn","doi":"10.1093/itnow/bwad083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/itnow/bwad083","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 James Burn, Senior Solutions Engineer and Meteorologist at IBM, explores how computers, and latterly AI, are used to calculate climate change and weather.","PeriodicalId":100735,"journal":{"name":"ITNOW","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88161477","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}