The networked society Archives

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

1985 and the Mobile Phone Revolution in the UK

John Carrington, the founding MD of Cellnet and Archives of IT Chair of Trustees, gives…

11 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

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

GSM pioneer, Mike Short, offers his top ten mobile phone attributes

6 May 2025 Dr Mike Short CBE, has four decades of experience in electronics and…

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

Shaheed Haque

Shaheed joined DEC straight from university, and worked as an Engineer, contributing to the development of the 50-way sync connector and other innovative technologies, including inventing a graphic editor for state machines. His ground-breaking work on video servers saw Shaheed and his team move to Oracle where they worked on tech for companies who wanted to start using satellites to do shopping on televisions.

8 April 2025

Richard Briggs

Richard started off working with computers in Air Traffic Control, moving to DEC as an engineer. As his career progressed, he specialised in networks and moved over to telecoms, his work in ADSL laying the groundwork for future broadband infrastructure.

7 April 2025

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