The foundation is born

A lean non-profit organization, <goto> will bring funding in from industry and use it to develop and promote exciting, game changing, computer science promoting projects to inspire …

Hanging out with Stephen Fry, Lady Gaga and Wossy

Thank you very much MSN Tech and Gadgets for including me in your Top 40 people to follow on Twitter. I'm sandwiched in between Stephen Fry and Wil Wheaton, not too bad a place to be ;) I'm also one of only two real women featured, the other is th...

Google Scholar Citation Profile

Wow! Google Scholar Citation profiling makes it so much easier to put all my publication information together, well it took about 20 seconds. Amazing.

Dinner at the Irish Embassy – a great trip

I went to a great dinner at the Irish Embassy a couple of weeks ago. Thanks to the advice of many lovely friends I was dressed appropriately in my best black frock, which is from Karen Millen in case you are interested and my high heels. Having ma...

Google loves Bletchley Park and Bletchley Park loves Google

There's a great piece from BBC News' Gordon Corera today about Simon Meacham???s valiant effort to help Bletchley Park purchase the Turing papers last year. I've been blogging about my campaign to save Bletchley Park for the last three and a half ye...

Professor Margaret Ross awarded BCS John Ivinson Award

Professor Margaret Ross was awarded the highest award that is given by the BCS each year this morning, The BCS John Ivinson award. Margaret has done a massive amount of work throughout the breadth of the BCS over many years. She has made a differe...

GCSE Computing – surely Turing should get a mention?

On Monday evening I attended the premiere of a documentary "The Hero of Station X" about Alan_Turing. Turing was a computer science pioneer, named the Father of Computer Science by some, he made fundamental contributions to computer science, to co...