Science & Technology
My Lord, Ladies and Gentlemen. It is a real honour for me to have this opportunity to address a group of people who share my passion that standards markets can improve the world, this Association of British Certification Bodies. This…
A night with Harvard classmate Mark Schaffer always covers a wide variety of topics, whisk(e)y, pizza, Hendrix, science fiction, the elixers of life, and Marks. By which I mean Mark I and Mark II computers. Harvard IBM Mark I –…
ISTEL DEFENCE MARKET THRUST SPEARHEADED BY INNOVATIVE PRODUCT [this April Fool’s spoof came out on 1 April 1985 in the corporate magazine of British Leyland’s IT arm, ISTEL, in Redditch, Warwickshire]
Introduction The paradox of computers is that they seem to be able to do something of everything and yet nothing fully. Computers have assisted people in thousands of applications, yet computers have not been able to fully replace people in…
