Dr Elisabetta Mori’s report ‘From Punch Cards to Brain Computer Interfaces: 75 Years of Human-Computer Interaction and its Impact on Society’ describes how HCI evolved from the early years of computing in the 1950s, when the subject was dominated by a small number of mainframes, to today’s world where we talk about Graphical User Interfaces and interactive displays used by billions of people.

Manchester University Postgraduate student Stephen Robertson has reviewed some of the Butler Cox Foundation’s reports for us, thinking particularly about the tensions and challenges of the relationship between senior IT management and senior corporate management during the 1980s.

Yueqi Li investigates what the UK Government did between 1945 and 1964 to create and empower the Ministry of Technology and assesses its impact on the IT industry after the Second World War.