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Bryan Glick

Bryan Glick is Computer Weekly’s Editor in Chief, one of the publications which broke the story of the Post Office Horizon scandal in 2009, which affected (and in some cases, destroyed) sub postmasters’ livelihoods and lives. Here he talks to AIT Trustee Professor Bill Dutton on Horizon and its implications for the future of technology and society.

29 December 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

Tim Gregory

Tim Gregory has enjoyed a 50-year IT career during which he has witnessed the evolution of computing from punch cards and mainframes to AI and quantum today. Starting out in 1968 as a 15-year-old trainee computer operator, Tim went on to have a varied career managing complex IT operations for the likes of Sherwood Computer Services, Lloyd’s of London and BACS, before leading CGI’s operations in the UK and Europe.

23 April 2025

Trudy Norris-Grey

Trudy trained as an accountant, working for Vodafone predecessor Racal, and then DEC as a financial analyst. She worked her way up to become DEC’s first female board member. She moved on to Kodak and then became Vice President at Oracle. She became the first female leader of a major tech company in the UK in 2005 when she headed Sun Microsystems UK.

15 April 2025

Simone Hume

Simone started work at DEC as a temp, and taking advantage of their DigiTemps programme, got a permanent job in bid support and assisted consultants with proposals for Multi–Vendor Customer Services. She moved on to Base Sales, upselling additional services to existing customers, and then Field Sales around the time of the Compaq takeover. After DEC she moved to IBM as a Partner Account Manager for the public sector.

14 April 2025

Peter Campbell Burns

Peter worked as a computer programmer for University College London, in the Department of Physics and Astronomy’s high-profile experiments in collaboration with the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN). His knowledge of DEC machines and VAX/VMS (Virtual Memory Systems) meant he went on to become a Defence contractor.

7 April 2025

Janet Richards

Janet joined DEC as a graduate, working Software Services in pre-sales, then in the technical team supporting Barclays Bank handling floppy disks and RLL2 machines. She worked up to account consultant and worked for DEC in Europe and the UK. After DEC she joined Global Knowledge as a business project manager and then moved on to a company providing tech apprenticeships.

24 March 2025

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