A selection of photos from the last few years in no particular order.

With my son, daughter in law and grandson at my book launch

Spending a wonderful afternoon talking to year 6 at Surbiton High school about Bletchley Park

Interviewed by Jenni Murray on BBC Radio 4 “Woman’s Hour”

With my family at Buckingham Palace

With my fiance after receiving my OBE at Buckingham Palace


Meeting the Queen

With Will.i.am at the Wayra pitch night 2014

At a reception for the technology industry at Buckingham Palace hosted by The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh June 2014

World’s first radio show streamed live from Google Glass


Speaking at the United Nations in Geneva April 2014

With my childhood hero Johnny Ball at BETT 2014

With my sister chatting to Jo Brand in the Green Room after speaking at Mumsnet Blogfest 2013

Really flattering pic of me on Sky News 2013

At a reception In NYC with UN ITU Director Hamadoun Toure after speaking at the UN 2013

An Enigma at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View 2012

A posh do at the Irish Embassy in London 2011

Outside Google with Robert Llewelyn after a meeting there to discuss Bletchley Park

Standing on my soapbox on London’s South Bank telling the public about my research 2011

Jet lagged at the #140conf afterparty in NYC

Wonderful fridge magnet my friend Deby made for my birthday in 2012

Cheers! my 51st birthday party at Black’s club in Soho, London

Me and my three kiddies, Ladbroke Grove 1986

At my son Sam’s graduation, Durham University 2009

With Stephen Fry at Bletchley Park, May 2009

Celebrating my 51st birthday at Black’s club in Soho, the lovely Justin Pollard to my right, thanks to @documentally for the awesome birthday gift of a gas mask

In the green room after appearing with Brian Cox, Robin Ince, Simon Singh and Dave Gorman on BBC Radio 4’s The Infinite Monkey Cage

With Tim Berners Lee and Nigel Shadbolt at the Royal Society

Outside the Royal Society in London after winning the BCS John Ivinson Award 2009

Being awarded my PhD in 2001 for my thesis entitled “Computation of ripple effects for software”.

After winning the FDM Everywoman Inspiration Award in 2014

After speaking at the Turing’s Worlds conference at Oxford University on what would have been Alan Turing’s 100th birthday on June 23rd 2012

With the fabulous Bletchley Park veteran Bombe operator Jean Valentine at Bletchley Park for the opening of Block C by HRH the Duchess of Cambridge

I made a Shrimp! #techmums shrimping workshop at the BCS in 2014

Winning the FDM Everywoman Inspiration of the Year award 2014

In front of Colossus with a Raspberry Pi at The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park

With Bletchley Park codebreaker Captain Jerry Roberts and his wife Mei at Bletchley Park in 2011 to meet the Queen

In Campinas Brazil in 2012 on a tour of Brazil lecturing about Alan Turing and Bletchley Park

With a Raspberry Pi in front of Colossus at The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park

Keynoting at Target Jobs conference at Bloomberg, London 2012

Red hair selfie at Monument, London 2014

On BBC News saying “We must save Bletchley Park!” July 2008

Being interviewed by BBC’s Jamillah Knowles at Bletchley Park January 2009

On women in tech panel at Parliament 2014

London #selfie me and my youngest daughter Leah after she came with me to speak at Parliament


#techmums An Cosan

Recording with the BBC at Bletchley Park

In Parliament with Newcastle MP Chi Onwurah and MP Diane Abbott in the background

#selfie In the House of Lords with Baroness Martha Lane Fox

In the San Francisco Consul General’s back garden with the Consul General Priya Guha and Whurley at a UKTI / British Airways #Ungrounded event

Presenting the wonderful Sinead Kelly from An Cosan with her #techmums trainer certificate

After speaking at the UN in New York with my #Ungrounded team mates
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