Forty-five years ago today, an ad with three serious men doing important-looking things at computers implored the reader to “join the highly paid world of computer programming, ” and it included a cut ...

Trevor Pearcey was just 27 years old and had been with his employer, the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (later CSIRO), for less than a year when he went to his bosses with a bold idea.

I was 5 or 6 when I got my first sense of the joys of computer programming. This was in the early 1980s, when few people had a computer. One day, my dad brought home a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, one of the ...

Paul Curzon, Professor of Computer Science and Jane Waite, Teaching Fellow and Public Engagement, Outreach and Teacher CPD Co-ordinator at the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, ...