2000s Archives - Page 16 of 22

Rebecca George OBE

Rebecca George spent almost twenty years with IBM, as it transitioned from a hardware and software supplier to a services company. In 2006 she joined Deloitte and is now their lead partner for public sector. Rebecca received an OBE in 2006 for services to IT and for her work supporting the Egan Review on sustainable community skills

4 June 2019

Dr Alan Shepherd

Alan has had a long and varied IT career, with a background in research, innovation, technology assessment, and large scale contracting. He has held senior technology management appointments in both public and private sectors, and recently has specialised in highlighting the growing business impact of emerging technologies. He has been responsible for many major projects and investment decisions, and has considerable experience of IT-supported and IT-driven business change programmes. He is very familiar with the difficulty of implementing change that affects workplace culture and tradition, a challenge that’s still very much with us today. Alan is a Chartered Engineer, and has served as a member of the Advisory Board of the Intel Corporation, and as a Council Member of EURIM and of the Parliamentary IT Committee.

30 May 2019

Professor Brian Randell

Brian has had a long and illustrious career in computing, starting work at English Electrics Atomic Power Division in 1957. Brian worked on various programming tasks, including the ALGOL 60 compiler for the KDF9 machine, which was the subject of his book, Algol 60 Implementation, along with Lawford Russell, one of the first books on compilers. Brian then joined IBM Research at Yorktown Heights in 1964, where he worked on computer and systems design. After five years at IBM, Brian became Professor of Computing Science at the Department of Computing Science at Newcastle University, where he has remained since.

30 May 2019

Dr Catherine Breslin

Dr. Catherine Breslin is a machine learning scientist specialising in speech and language technology. She has a distinguished academic background with a degree from Oxford and post-graduate qualifications from Cambridge. Her career has been about the application of speech and language research to real-world problems. She has worked for Toshiba and then Amazon, where she played a major role in developing Alexa onto other platforms.

23 May 2019

Gareth Bunn

Gareth Bunn started his career in IT at what was then known as the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Centre, in 1973. He was later influential in developing the services offered by the government’s Central Computing and Telecommunications Agency. He then became a partner at Ernst & Young and a vice-president at Capgemini before setting up his own company to offer training in communication and leadership.

7 May 2019

Dr Robert (Bob) Nowill

Bob Nowill has had a career as an IT security expert at the Government Communications Head Quarters (GCHQ) and at BT. He helped respond to the change of stance of GCHQ from combating the USSR in the cold war to the more asymmetric challenges faced today. He now works to try to bridge the skills gap between the pool of talent available to combat cyber security issues and the need for more expertise to achieve higher security

2 May 2019

Bridget Blow CBE

Bridget Blow CBE is an experienced independent Non-Executive Director and Chairman with special skills in technology, turnover and profit growth, corporate deals, human resources, change management, strategy, business transformation and governance,

2 May 2019

Roger Marshall

“What I have learned over my 40 years working in IT is that: You must…

16 April 2019

Interview with Sir Andrew Hopper

Andy Hopper studied computer science at Swansea under Professor David Aspinall then did his PhD in Cambridge where he worked on the Cambridge Ring. His LAN company came to the attention of Acorn Computers and was taken into Acorn in 1979. Hopper was appointed managing director of the Olivetti Cambridge Research lab in 1986. As MD he helped more than 10 venture operations become independent companies under the benign eye of Olivetti. On the closure of the lab Hopper focused on his professorship at Cambridge where he developed a strategy to get over 200 ventures from Cambridge University into the market.

28 March 2019

Judith Scott

After taking a postgraduate diploma in computer science at Cambridge University, Judith started her IT career in Canada as a systems engineer. She later joined Gandalf Systems, eventually managing the UK subsidiary until 1995 when she became Chief Executive of the British Computer Society.

26 March 2019

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