The networked society Archives - Page 10 of 11

Susie Hargreaves OBE

After an early management career in the arts sector, in 2011 Susie became Chief Executive of the Internet Watch Foundation, which strives to achieve the global elimination of child sexual abuse imagery online

11 September 2018

David Cleevely CBE

A telecoms & wireless expert, a serial entrepreneur, an advisor to Government on both a National & Local level, a businessman with strong links to academia who vigorously promotes networking, collaboration and the City of Cambridge. David is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology & a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering

19 June 2018

Sir Nigel Shadbolt

Sir Nigel Shadbolt is Professor of Computing Science at the University of Oxford and Principal of Jesus College. He is Chairman of the Open Data Institute which he co-founded with Sir Tim Berners-Lee in 2012.
He is also a Visiting Professor in Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton. During the course of his career he has made significant contributions to the fields of Psychology, Cognitive Science, Computational Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence (AI), the Semantic Web and Web Science.

6 February 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

Mike Lynch OBE

Mike Lynch founded Autonomy in Cambridge which swiftly became Europe’s largest software company selling its expertise in analysing large data sets. Autonomy was later sold to Hewlett-Packard. In 2012 Lynch formed Invoke capital which believes that entrepreneurs should focus on the technology and not have to manage the sales force or the customer sales desk, which Invoke does for them.

4 August 2017

Jim Norton

Professor Jim Norton is a Fellow of the UK Royal Academy of Engineering, an external member of the board of the UK’s Parliament[sic] Office of Science and Technology, a governor of Coventry University, a Visiting Professor of electronic engineering at Sheffield University, a board member and trustee of the Foundation for Information Policy Research, FIPR. He was President of the BCS 2011-12

4 August 2017

Sir Bryan Carsberg

Sir Bryan Carsberg started work as an accountant in accountancy partnerships and then moved to become professor of accounting at the London School of Economics. While there and subsequently at Manchester he started advising the government. He was the first choice to head Oftel, the telecommunications regulation organisation set to in the mid 1984 when BT was privatised to supervise it.

1 August 2017

Philip Hughes CBE

Philip Hughes CBE co-founded Logica. The systems development company pioneered the use of minicomputers in commercial and government applications. After leaving Logica, Philip became a full-time artist.

1 August 2017

John Carrington

John Carrington worked in the Post Office when it was a state-owned monopoly on first the postal side and then the telecommunications side. He was appointed as the founding managing director of Cellnet, BT’s mobile telecoms arm, in 1983. He helped European partners to develop the GSM standard which became and world de-facto standard. He moved to run BT’s US operations. He then had a variety of jobs in telecommunication including working for Cable and Wireless.

28 July 2017

Ninian Eadie

Ninian Eadie spent most of his career in the IT industry in ICL after working for LEO Computers and the Post Office. He saw the good times and the bad in ICL as it gained traction after he joined it in 1969. He ran ICL’s European business which, at its height, had about 7% of the Europe’s IT market outside the UK. He was in charge of successfully selling off many of the companies ICL disposed of as it shrank.