1990s Archives - Page 19 of 25

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

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

Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson’s name has been familiar to huge numbers of software designers and developers for many years, from the mid-1970s onward, and he’s a pioneer, some would say a radical pioneer, in the field of software design and development. He published five books between 1975 and 2001, and has written numerous papers over the years.

21 February 2019

Sir Alan Rudge

Sir Alan Rudge has been called one of the top technical minds in the country. He took an unconventional path to the top doing a City and Guilds telecoms technicians course and then a diploma in electrical engineering at a polytechnic. He worked in the USA, taught at a UK university and then ran the Electrical Research Association. He was headhunted to run R&D at BT: his first act was to hand the R&D budget back to the operating units and make his laboratories bid for projects from the rest of BT. So successful was this approach that he doubled the number in BT R&D.

15 February 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

Bruce Bond

Bruce Bond worked as a strategy director for BT from 1989 to 1996 closely working with Lord Iain Vallance. He had worked for over 20 years in the US telecommunications industry in AT&T and the parts of the Bell network when AT&T was split up in 1982

3 January 2019

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