About Brian Oakley
Lived 1927 – 2012 (aged 84). Brian Oakley was a computer scientist.
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 education In World War II, Oakley served with the Royal Signals as a subaltern. He then studied science at Exeter College, Oxford.
Information technology In 1950, Oakley joined the Telecommunications Research Establishment (TRE) He went on to be chairman of the software company Logica. In 1991, on hearing that British Telecom planned to dispose of its site at Bletchley Park for housing, together with Tony Sale, he helped to save the site, establish the Bletchley Park Trust, and became a director of the Trust. and the University of Essex (1998).
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Who was Brian Oakley?
Civil servant, chief executive, computer scientist
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Brian Oakley was born on 10 October 1927.
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Brian Oakley died on 17 August 2012.
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Brian Oakley was a computer scientist.
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