40 years ago, work began on the design of the C programming language. Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie, then working at AT&T Bell Labs, had reduced the BCPL, itself launched in 1969. The world was a very different place then, lush and peaceful and calm. 40 years ago, Steria was born. What extra can they [...]

40th birthdays are a coming of age in many ways.  I can see the major changes that have taken place in my friends and me over time and I am able to reflect on what’s been achieved and what has not.
In forty years of technology much has changed and I’m not going to list the [...]

Steria is forty this year. That’s one year more than me as I’m about to celebrate my own birthday this week, fortunately not quite at the important milestone of middle age Steria is enjoying.
In the past forty years, I would suggest that there have been four key turning points, or inventions, that changed the use [...]

Last year I had the pleasure to spend a few hours working with Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon. The context was that I was writing speeches and scripting a conference for a big telecoms company. The conference was at a big hotel in Las Vegas and was a very grand affair – [...]