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History of BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT

BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT (formerly British Computing Society) , is committed to…

7 September 2018

Professor Frank Land

One of the pioneers of early commercial computing who worked on the Lyons Electronic Office (LEO) and became the first Professor of Informatics in the United Kingdom.

28 August 2018

Charles Hughes

Charles Hughes, is one of the best known and highly regarded managers in the UK information technology business, with a career stretching back to 1967, much of it spent in ICL, the UK’s one-time computer flagship. He has also been a Government adviser, at critical times in the development of the UK IT industry. He was BCS President 2005/6

27 April 2018

David Mann

David Mann, is a former Master of the Worshipful Company, a past President of the British Computer Society, and was the fourth employee of Logica, where he went on to become its Managing Director and Deputy Chairman. From 1995 David has held non-exec roles in the capacity of chairman or director for a number of diverse organisations operating worldwide. He was President of the BCS 1994-95.

31 October 2017

A tribute to Len Taylor, co-founder of Logica

Len won a scholarship to study Mathematics at Hertford College Oxford in 1954, where…

26 October 2017

The Real Time Club celebrate their 50th Anniversary

The Real Time club was launched by a group of computer entrepreneurs in June 1967…

26 September 2017

The Boring Awards

Richard Holway MBE – Chairman TechMarketView LLP Quirks of fate – even accidents – can…

14 September 2017

ICL

ICL (International Computers Limited) existed as a commercial entity and brand from 1968 to 2002;…

5 September 2017

The BBC Computer Literacy Project

The BBC Computer Literacy Project was a national educational programme initiated and lead by the…

15 August 2017

Bill Ellis

Bill Ellis started work in the IT industry in BTM, before it merged to form ICT. He supported clients through the adoption of new systems. He worked with insurance companies for ICT and ICL, competing against IBM, the dominant vendor. He moved to the start-up Software Sciences which and helped build it into a £100 million-turnover company with 2,000 people. Bill was on the council of the Computing Services Association for six years.

1 August 2017

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