Brian Oakley
Brian Wynne Oakley, CBE was a British civil servant who took a leading role in the area of information technology, especially the 1980s Alvey Programme.
Brian Oakley studied science at University of Oxford.[1] Later he became a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and the British Computer Society. He undertook research in telecommunications and civilian applications of military research. He then worked in Whitehall as a civil servant. Subsequential, he became the chief official of the Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC).
Oakley was director of the United Kingdom Alvey Programme (1983–87), a British government sponsored research programme for projects in the area of information technology, initiated as a reaction to the Japanese Fifth generation computer project.[2] He also chaired the managing board of the Computer Centre of the University of London, an important UK supercomputing centre.
Oakey was President of the British Computer Society (1988–89).[3] He is a Commander of the Order of the British Empire and an honorary graduate of the University of Essex.[1]
References
- ^ a b Honorary Graduates — Brian Wynne Oakley, CBE, University of Essex, UK, 9 July 1998.
- ^ Brian Oakley and Kenneth Owen, Alvey: Britain's Strategic Computing Initiative, MIT Press, 1990. ISBN 0-262-15038-7.
- ^ List of BCS Past Presidents, British Computer Society, UK.
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