BBC Micro designer gets New Year's Honour
News A principal designer of the BBC Micro computer has been recognised for his services to computer science in the Queen's New Year's Honours. His success with the BBC Micro came during a 10-year spell in the R&D department of Acorn, the computer's...
[January 2, 2008, 12:45]
Sir Tim
News Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web, has been awarded a knighthood in the New Year honours list. Responding to the honour, Sir Tim said it was an acknowledgement that the Net was becoming globally powerful, and not just a passing trend.
[December 31, 2003, 10:10]
Tech executives receive honours
News Several luminaries in the computer industry have received honours from the queen in the 2002 New Year's Honours List, including game designer Jez San, microchip executive Robin Saxby and Herman Hauser, who co-founded Acorn Computers.
[January 2, 2002, 17:12]
Here today, gong tomorrow for 'Sir' Bill Gates
Talkback I was delighted to read that Tim Berners-Lee was to receive a knighthood in the New Year's Honours list. My reaction to the announcement that Bill Gates will too was the polar opposite. There's no doubt that his influence has been immense but at...
[January 26, 2004, 9:19]
CBE honour for Acorn founder
News A UK computing pioneer who played a key role in the creation of Acorn Computers has been included in the New Year Honours List. Other technology figures recognised in this year's Honours List include Larry Hirst, general manager for IBM UK, and...
[January 2, 2007, 12:10]
Rake to succeed Bland at BT helm
News Rake, who acquired his knighthood in the most recent New Year Honours List, will succeed Sir Christopher Bland as head of the incumbent British telco in September. It is believed that Rake will take a significant pay cut in his new role, down from...
[February 19, 2007, 15:33]
P2P group to pay girl's RIAA bill
News According to a New York Post profile, Lahara is a 12-year-old honours student who lives in public housing. A peer-to-peer group says it will cover costs for a 12-year-old New York girl who agreed to pay record labels $2,000 (£1,280) to settle a...
[September 11, 2003, 10:30]
HP-developed degree aims to close UK's IT skills gap
News On completing their two years of study, students have the option of progressing to a final year in order to complete a full BSc Honours degree. HP said the course has been specifically designed for part-time students — those who sign up will attend...
[August 7, 2008, 12:06]
Genome pioneer wins inventor prize
News Other honours for Hood include the Kyoto Prize for Advanced Technology in 2002 and the Lasker Award for Studies of Immune Diversity in 1987. Segway inventor Dean Kamen won last year's Lemelson-MIT Prize.
[April 25, 2003, 7:54]
News Schmooze: It's a wireless world
News US government security guy Richard Clarke did the honours this year, warning that if companies spend less on info-security tech than on coffee for employees, they "deserve to be hacked". This is the week every year that everybody remembers that...
[February 22, 2002, 15:01]
Apple designer honoured by the Queen
Blog Jonathan Ive, who was born in the UK in February 1967 and studied industrial design at Newcastle Polytechnic, became a Commander of the British Empire in the Queen's New Year Honours. In 2003 he was named Designer of the Year by the Design Museum...
[November 17, 2006, 11:53]
Report: India losing grip on outsourcing ecosystem
News This year's top honours went to HP, which jumped up from eighth spot in 2007. Indian IT-services companies are losing their grip on the global outsourcing ecosystem, a new report has claimed. Only 10 outsourcers from India made it into this year's...
[July 3, 2008, 12:05]
Apple designer makes it into Who's Who
News Reportedly keen to shun the limelight, Ive was recognised with the award of a CBE in the 2006 New Year Honours list. He was also named "Designer of the Year" by London's Design Museum in 2003 and 2004.
[January 3, 2007, 13:56]
O2 cuts data-roaming rates
News Today's announcement honours the promise we made to customers at that time that, having reduced the cost of calling whilst abroad, we would bring down the last barrier in roaming charges — data. The European Commission, which last year scored a...
[January 14, 2008, 15:03]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog You may remember from a couple of weeks back that Jez San (not Sans, as somehow appeared), owner and operator of the Argonaut empire, copped an OBE in the New Years Honours. Back in March last year, the then-minister for e-commerce, Patricia Hewitt...
[January 31, 2002, 14:30]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog New Year's Honours are out. Wednesday 2/01/2002 And among them, between gongs for Services To The Queen's Handkerchief and Running Faster Than Foreigners, is an Order of the British Empire for one Jeremy Sans, head bod of hyper-successful Argonaut...
[January 8, 2002, 8:26]
Web-science pioneer is made a dame
News Web and multimedia research leader Professor Wendy Hall [pictured], of the University of Southampton, has been made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. The computer scientist, who was made a CBE in 2000, was awarded the honour for...
[January 2, 2009, 11:53]
