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Tasha Morrison

Tasha is a solution architect in the hospitality industry and runs her own digital marketing company. She is interested in how people’s behaviours interact with technology, and how this can be used to create user-friendly services for customers.

17 June 2025

Luke Hale

Luke Hale is a games producer, working on console, PC and mobile projects for games publishers. Although he starting coding, he soon discovered an interest in the production side of games where he has worked for over a decade.

17 June 2025

Iain Compton

Iain Compton has 25 years experience in the games industry. Listen to his interview to gain a fascinating insight into the world of games design – who knew there were so many rules – and learn how to turn your passion for gaming into a career.

20 May 2025

Stephanie Bazeley

Stephanie Bazeley is a senior programmer and co-founder of a gaming company. Stephanie joined a group of friends to launch the company while she was studying for her Computer Games Technology degree and has had games nominated for the Scottish BAFTA.

20 May 2025

Keith Saunders

Keith started his tech career as an Apprentice at the Atomic Energy Authority at Harwell, getting his first job at DEC where he was and engineer in the Computer Special Systems department. His experience building service teams at DEC meant he moved on to computer company Alliant and telecommunications form Alcatel, heading up global services.

9 May 2025

Tom Povey

Tom joined DEC after a career in computing and standards work. He contributed to DEC’s all-in-one version 2 and DEC Forms, a layered product that became DEC’s fastest-selling product. He later co-founded a company to improve VT100 software.

6 May 2025

Dr. Peter Macfarlane

Peter McFarlane, has done pioneering work in automating electrocardiogram (ECG) analysis at the University of Glasgow, which started using DEC machines and Siemens software. He has contributed to major clinical studies and the widespread use of statins in heart disease prevention.

6 May 2025

Dr. Mike Burrows

After studying for a PhD in electrical engineering, Mike was offered a job at DEC’s Systems Research Centre in Palo Alto. There he worked on the Alta Vista search engine, which became the most popular search engine in the 1990s. After DEC, Mike moved on to jobs at Microsoft and Google, where he developed a distributed lock server, still in use today

29 April 2025

Tim Gregory

Tim Gregory has enjoyed a 50-year IT career during which he has witnessed the evolution of computing from punch cards and mainframes to AI and quantum today. Starting out in 1968 as a 15-year-old trainee computer operator, Tim went on to have a varied career managing complex IT operations for the likes of Sherwood Computer Services, Lloyd’s of London and BACS, before leading CGI’s operations in the UK and Europe.

23 April 2025

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