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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

Dr Michael Taylor

Michael Taylor has had a varied career, much of it working on sensitive systems. He did pioneering work on speech recognition for use by pilots and helped the Metropolitan Police to “join up” its databases. He went on to become the IT champion of the UK’s joint intelligence committee within the cabinet office.

13 November 2018

Martyn Thomas CBE

Martyn is a world-renowned expert in software engineering and cybersecurity. He graduated from UCL in 1969 with a degree in Biochemistry and forsaking a career in the law he joined UCL’s Computer Centre. Subsequent to work with South West Universities he went on to form Praxis Systems in 1983, a company renowned for its commercial use of mathematically formal software development methods.

5 October 2018

Dr Steve Furber CBE

Steve Furber was working at Acorn Computers having helped develop the BBC Micro and was searching for the follow-on product. He found that the microprocessors then on the market had a deep design flaws: they were too complex. Acorn decided to design its own microprocessor using a novel approach. Furber led the small design team. They called it the Acorn Risc Machine (ARM), later changed to the Advanced Risc Machine and it is now found in over a billion mobile devices worldwide

17 August 2018

Dr Hermann Hauser

Hermann Hauser co-founded Acorn Computers and guided it through its growth and the success of the BBC Micro. He founded the Olivetti Research lab in Cambridge but left in 1988 to found the Active Book company and in 1990 he helped to spin out ARM from Acorn. He continues to look for new ventures and in 1997 co-founded the venture capital IT partnership Amadeus based in Cambridge.

14 June 2018

Dr Roger Johnson

Past President of both the BCS, 1992 to 1993, and the Council of European Professional Informatics Societies, 1997 to ’99, Roger was Honorary Secretary for the International Federation for Information Processing 1999 to 2010. In 2009 he became a Fellow of Birkbeck, after 23 years as Dean of the Faculty of Social Science.

6 April 2018

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