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Dr. Ian Severn

Ian started to use computers in research and development for firm Vickers. He next worked for Harwell on a search engine STATUS and Bemrose Information Services as a Systems Analyst on database publishing for motor companies. He joined DEC as publishing applications centre manager and after this job ended, set up his own business supporting ex-DEC customers.

24 March 2025

Dr. David Probert

David’s IT career began with BT on their scholarship scheme. Whilst working on BT’s privatisation, David was asked to manage a partnership with DEC in Reading working on optical fibres and video conferencing. A career in communications and the internet followed, providing the first international routers in Eastern Europe. After leaving DEC, he has worked in Georgia under the auspices of the United Nations.

18 March 2025

Celebrating 30 years of the GLOMOs: The history and future of mobile phones

A vendor takes a selfie at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. © GSMA  …

12 March 2025

Telephone helplines in Britain, 1965-1999: Countercultural DIY activism to professional welfare services over the phone

Telephone helplines may, at first, seem like an unusual topic at a forum on norms…

19 February 2025
Professor Rich Ling

AIT Forum on Norms for the Digital Age: Q&A with Professor Rich Ling

  At this month’s Archives of IT Forum on the Norms of for the Digital…

10 January 2025

AIT announces special event focusing on the UK Pioneers of Human-Computer Interaction

Archives of IT (AIT) will host an exciting evening event; From Punch Cards to Brain-Computer Interfaces:…

11 December 2024

Registration now open for AIT’s 2025 Forum on Norms for the Digital Age

  AIT 2025 Forum: Norms for the Digital Age from Students to States – Tuesday…

20 November 2024

Keynote speakers announced for AIT’s 2025 Forum

Archives of IT (AIT) has secured two keynote speakers for its second one-day academic-practitioner forum…

25 September 2024

Stephanie Liston

Stephanie Liston is a lawyer who has worked in commercial law for tech and communications firms. Projects she has worked on include companies such as MCI Communications Corporation, BT and Cable and Wireless. Her experience means she has sat on the board of regulator OFCOM and the Jersey Competition Regulatory Authority.

24 July 2024

Professor David Duce

Dr David Duce worked for the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory most of his working life, starting there in 1975 programming an ICL mainframe in Fortran. He implemented a structured Fortran with a colleague and has keep a keen interest in formal methods. He became deeply involved in the realm of graphics and with graphics standardisation. He is not a fan of AI preferring model-based computing where you can see why the system can to its conclusions. Latterly he worked at Oxford Brookes University.

26 June 2024

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