New Blog from Tom Abram, Director, Archives of IT

Latest Blog from Richard Sharpe.

Latest blog from Richard Sharpe.

Richard Sharpe looks at the efforts of King’s College Cambridge to get a statue erected in honour of Alan Turing.

Stephen Baker responds to Richard Sharpe’s blog.

But is it? Tom Abram looks behind the sparkly unicorns.

Richard Sharpe looks at how what happened in the last week of April 37 years ago in 1985 changed microprocessors forever.

Tom Abram and Mark Jones ponder this question.

Richard Sharpe looks back at his interview with Alastair Macdonald CB, who died earlier this year.

Peter Cunningham on the company he created with his wife in 1974 and what it went on to become.

Richard Sharpe looks at the consistent performance of Capita that led to it happily being labelled boring.

Richard Sharpe looks back through the archive.

Richard Sharpe delves back into the archives.

Richard Sharpe looks at four of the amazing women in our archive on International Women’s Day.

Dr Tom Abram wonders what, if anything, has really changed for women in the last 50 years, in terms of a career in IT.

Richard Sharpe considers if the NHS and Information Systems is the ultimate challenge.

Dr Tom Abram takes a look back at January 1992 -when it was said “1991 was the worst year ever for the IT industry worldwide and for UK CSI companies in particular.”

Dr Mike Short looks back at the launch of the iPhone 15 years ago.

Richard Sharpe, interviewer for AIT & longtime journalist looks back at IT news from 1985 and the year 2000.

Michael Mainelli looks at what we could have learned from the Butler Cox papers and what they missed entirely.

Jim Norton gives a retrospective on the Butler Cox Foundation’s July 1989 paper –“ Pan-European Communications: Threats and Opportunities”

Mark Jones reflects on what we can learn from how the forecasts of 30 years ago turned out.

On 9 December 1968 “The Mother of all demonstrations” showed the world how the mouse would transform our relationship with computers