2000s Archives - Page 17 of 22

Simon Peyton Jones

Simon Peyton Jones has dedicated his career to functional programming, and was the designer of the Haskell functional programming language. In 1989 he became Professor of Computing Science at Glasgow University, and is now a principal researcher at Microsoft. He has just been appointed chair of the new National Centre for Computing Education.

22 March 2019

Muffy Calder OBE

Muffy Calder is Vice Principal and Head of College of Science and Engineering at Glasgow University. She is also a Professor of Formal Methods. In 2011, she was awarded the OBE for services to computer science.

22 March 2019

Jo Twist OBE

Dr Jo Twist has a background in technology, education, media, journalism and youth culture, and a PhD in online communities. She has been CEO of the trade body for games and entertainment and is CEO of BPI, the representative voice of UK record companies and labels.

5 March 2019

Frank Jones

Frank Jones during his long career as an executive in IT service companies was known as the outsourcing man. Outsourcing gave financial directors back control: control they had lost to IT managers. But there were drawbacks. He also grew businesses by acquisitions. Frank has experience with the different cultures of UK and continental European companies as well as Asian ones.

5 March 2019

Martha Lane-Fox

Martha Lane Fox led the team which built the commercially successful Internet application lastminute.com. She now runs dotevedryone.org a think tank and campaigning organisation to develop a responsible digital economy and is chancellor of the Open University.

7 February 2019

Naomi Climer CBE

Naomi Wendy Climer CBE FREng, FIET is a British engineer who has worked in broadcast, media and communications technology chiefly at the BBC and Sony Professional Solutions, and was the first female President of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).

31 January 2019

Kirstin Duffield

20 years in the Reinsurance and Insurance Software Industry has given Kirstin Duffield experience in Systems’ Analysis and Deployment, Training and delivery. She was shortlisted as Business Leader of the Year 2017 by Women in IT and was one of Computer Weekly’s top 25 most influential women in IT 2013.

25 January 2019

Peter Cunningham

Peter Cunningham founded the INPUT market research company in California in November 1974 after starting in his native UK in IT and moving to the USA. INPUT had an unsung and important role in the classification of software products, a vital contribution to the development of the software industry. INPUT fed vital information to vendors of IT services and software, helping them hone their strategies in this fast growing area until he sold it in 2010.

8 January 2019

Professor Liz Bacon

Liz Bacon is a Professor of Software Engineering who helped change the school curriculum in computing and set-up more than 200 computers at school hubs across the country. In 2016 Liz became a Trustee and Director of Bletchley Park Trust, the home of British code breaking.

13 December 2018

Dr Mike Short CBE

After holding senior executive positions with Cellnet, O2 and Telefonica for 40 years, Mike joined the Department for International Trade as the department’s first chief scientific adviser in December 2017.

22 November 2018

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