Below is a list of presidents of the British Computer Society from the inception of the
BCS in 1957 onwards, with years of office.
* 1957–1960 Prof. Sir
Maurice V. Wilkes
Sir Maurice Vincent Wilkes (26 June 1913 – 29 November 2010) was a British computer scientist who designed and helped build the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC), one of the earliest stored program computers, and who in ...
FRS FREng *
* 1960–1961
Frank Yates CBE FRS *
* 1961–1962
Dudley Hooper *
* 1962–1963
Sid Michaelson *
* 1963–1965 Sir
Edward Playfair
Sir Edward Wilder Playfair KCB (17 May 1909 – 21 March 1999) was an English civil servant and businessman.Noel AnnanObituary: Sir Edward Playfair ''The Independent'', 25 March 1999.Robert ArmstrongPlayfair, Sir Edward Wilder (1909–1999) ''O ...
KCB *
* 1965–1966 Sir
Maurice Banks
Sir Maurice Alfred Lister Banks (11 August 1901 – 11 August 1991) was a British businessman.
Educated at Westminster School in London,
Banks was a Director of Oakbank Oil Co. Ltd during 1962/3–1963, which became BP Exploration (Associated Hol ...
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* 1966–1967
Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma
Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979) was a British naval officer, colonial administrator and close relative of the British royal family. Mountbatten, who was of German ...
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* 1967–1968
Stanley Gill
Professor Stanley J. Gill (26 March 1926 – 1975) was a British computer scientist credited, along with Maurice Wilkes and David Wheeler, with the invention of the first computer subroutine.
Early life, education and career
Stanley Gill was bor ...
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* 1968–1969
Basil de Ferranti
Basil Reginald Vincent Ziani de Ferranti (2 July 1930 – 24 September 1988) was a British businessman and a Conservative Party politician. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, and was the grandson of the electrical engineer a ...
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* 1969–1970
John Giffard, 3rd Earl of Halsbury
John Anthony Hardinge Giffard, 3rd Earl of Halsbury FRS (4 June 1908 – 14 January 2000), was a British crossbencher peer and scientist. Halsbury succeeded to the title in 1943.
Early life
Giffard was educated at Ludgrove School (where a s ...
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* 1970–1971
Alexander D'Agapeyeff OBE *
* 1971–1972
Sandy Douglas
Alexander Shafto "Sandy" Douglas CBE (21 May 1921 – 29 April 2010) was a British professor of computer science, credited with creating the first graphical computer game OXO, a Noughts and Crosses computer game in 1952 on the EDSAC computer ...
CBE *
* 1972–1973
Graham Morris
* 1973–1974
Ray Barrington
* 1974–1975
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* 1975–1976
Cecil Marks *
* 1976–1977
Gerry Fisher
Gerry Fisher, B.S.C. (23 June 1926 – 2 December 2014) was an English cinematographer.
Biography
He was born in London in 1926. Early employment by Kodak and De Havilland Aircraft was followed by service in the Royal Navy during WW II. Fish ...
* 1977–1978
Paul Samet
* 1978–1979
Frank Sumner
* 1979–1980
Julian Bogod
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* 1980–1981
Frank Hooper
* 1981–1982
Peter Hall OBE *
* 1982–1983
Prince Edward, HRH Duke of Kent
* 1983–1984
David Firnberg
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* 1984–1985
Ewan Page
Ewan Stafford Page (born 17 August 1928) is a British academic and computer scientist, and former vice-chancellor of the University of Reading.
Ewan Page was educated at Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys in Leicester and at Christ's College, Cam ...
* 1985–1986
Robert McLaughlin
* 1986–1987 Sir
John Fairclough
Sir John Whitaker Fairclough (23 August 1930 – 5 June 2003) was a British computer engineering, computer designer, and later government policy advisor.
Education
John Fairclough was educated at Thirsk Grammar School and than studied e ...
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* 1987–1988
Ernest Morris
Ernest Morris (1913–1987) was an English film director.
Selected filmography
* ''Three Crooked Men'' (1958)
* ''Night Train for Inverness'' (1960)
* ''The Court Martial of Major Keller'' (1961)
* ''Three Spare Wives'' (1962)
* ''What Every Wo ...
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* 1988–1989
Brian Oakley
Brian Wynne Oakley, (10 October 1927 – 17 August 2012) was a British civil servant and industrialist who took a leading role in the area of information technology, especially the 1980s Alvey Programme. Career Military service and educatio ...
CBE *
* 1989–1990 Dame
Stephanie Shirley
Dame Vera Stephanie "Steve" Shirley (previously Brook, née Buchthal; born 16 September 1933) is an information technology pioneer, businesswoman and philanthropist (naturalised British in 1951).
Early life
Shirley was born as Vera Buch ...
* 1990–1991
Alan Roussel
* 1991–1992
Stephen Matheson CB
* 1992–1993
Roger Johnson
* 1993–1994
John Leighfield
John Percival Leighfield (born 1938) is a British IT industry businessman and was previously chairman of RM plc from 1993 until 2011.
Currently John Leighfield is a Director of Getmapping, a UK supplier of aerial photography, mapping product ...
CBE
* 1994–1995
David Mann
* 1995–1996
Geoff Robinson CBE FREng
* 1996–1997
Ron McQuaker *
* 1997–1998
Sir Brian Jenkins GBE
* 1998–1999
Ian Ritchie CBE FRSE FREng
* 1999–2000
David Hartley
* 2000–2001
Alastair Macdonald CB
* 2001–2002
Geoff McMullen
* 2002–2003
John Ivinson *
* 2003–2004 Prof. Dame
Wendy Hall
Dame Wendy Hall (born 25 October 1952) is a British computer scientist. She is Regius Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton.
Early life and education
Wendy Hall was born in west London and educated at Ealing Grammar ...
* 2004–2005
David Morriss
* 2005–2006
Charles E. Hughes
* 2006–2007 Prof. Sir
Nigel Shadbolt
Sir Nigel Richard Shadbolt (born 9 April 1956) is Principal of Jesus College, Oxford, and Professorial Research Fellow in the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford. He is Chairman of the Open Data Institute which he co-founded ...
* 2007–2008
Rachel Burnett
* 2008–2009
Alan Pollard
* 2009–2011
Elizabeth Sparrow
* 2011–2012 Prof.
Jim Norton
* 2012–2013
Bob Harvey
* 2013–2014
Roger Marshall
* 2014–2015 Prof.
Liz Bacon
* 2015–2016
Jos Creese
* 2016–2017
Ray Long
William Ray Long, (March 23, 1878 – July 9, 1935) was an American newspaper, magazine, film, writer, and editor who is notable for being the editor-in-chief of ''Cosmopolitan'' magazine between 1919 and 1931. He is said to have had "a colorfu ...
* 2017–2018
Paul Martynenko
* 2018–2019
Chris Rees
Edward Christopher Rees (5 January 1931 – 1 December 2001), known as Chris Rees, was a Welsh nationalist politician.
Rees grew up in Swansea and joined Plaid Cymru at an early age. In 1951, he refused to do National Service, on the grounds t ...
* 2019–2020
Michael Grant
* 2020–2021
Rebecca George OBE
* 2021–2022
John Higgins
John Higgins, (born 18 May 1975) is a Scottish professional snooker player. He has won 31 career ranking titles, placing him in third position on the all-time list of ranking event winners, behind Ronnie O'Sullivan (39) and Stephen Hendry ( ...
CBE
* Starred entries above are deceased.
References
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