Hall of Fame 2011 Judges

The judging panel for the 2011 Hall of Fame Awards was announced on February 1st 2011.

Andrew Herbert

Andrew Herbert is the Chairman of Microsoft Research EMEA. In this role Herbert oversees Microsoft Research’s activities in the region, including technical strategy and policy engagements and wider engagement with politicians, officials, professional and industry bodies and their strategic advisors.

Before joining Microsoft Research in 2001, Dr Herbert was director of Advanced Technology at Citrix Systems Inc., where he was instrumental in steering the company toward Internet thin-client technologies and initiating development of products for Web-based application deployment and for the emerging application service provider market.

Prior to Citrix, Dr Herbert founded Digitivity Inc. a spinoff from APM Ltd., a research and consulting company Dr Herbert founded in 1985. APM managed ANSA, an industry-sponsored program of research and advanced development into the use of distributed systems technology.

Before starting ANSA in 1985, Dr Herbert was a faculty member in the Computer Laboratory, where he worked with Professor Roger Needham and Sir Maurice Wilkes on seminal developments in local area networks and distributed computing.

In the 2010 honours list Dr Herbert was awarded an OBE for services to computer science. He is a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a fellow of the British Computer Society, a fellow of Wolfson College Cambridge, a visiting professor at University College London, a member of St. John’s College Cambridge, and a liveryman of the City of London Worshipful Company of Information Technologists.

Andy Hopper

Andy Hopper is Professor of Computer Technology at the University of Cambridge and Head of the Computer Laboratory. His research interests include networking, pervasive and sentient computing, and using computers for assuring the sustainability of the planet.

Professor Hopper has pursued parallel academic and industrial careers. Prior to the Computer Laboratory, he worked at the University of Cambridge Department of Engineering. Professor Hopper has held senior roles at a number of multinationals and has also co-founded over a dozen spin-outs and start-ups.

Professor Hopper is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and of the Royal Society. He was made a CBE for services to the computer industry in 2007.

Jack Lang

Jack Lang is a serial entrepreneur and business angel, and co-founder of Artimi Ltd.

On leaving Cambridge, he co-founded the consulting company Topexpress, one of whose projects was designing some of the software for the BBC Microcomputer.

Mr Lang was founder of Netchannel Ltd, which was acquired in 1998 by ntl, where he became Chief Technologist. Before that he founded Electronic Share Information Ltd, acquired by E*Trade Inc in 1995. He is author of The High Tech Entrepreneurs Handbook and teaches and examines courses in Business Studies, Entrepreneurship and Ecommerce for the Computer Laboratory.

Mr Lang is also a co-founder of Midsummer House, the only 2 Star Michelin restaurant in East Anglia.

Stewart Lang

Dr Stewart Lang co-founded Micro Focus in 1976. Micro Focus, which received a Queens’ Award for Industry in 1981, was the first company to receive an award for technological achievement purely for its development of a computer software product – CIS Cobol. Micro Focus was taken public in 1983 in the UK, and in 1984 in the US.

Dr Lang also co-founded ASD Systems, a company set up to exploit the autostereo display technology developed in Cambridge.

Dr Lang is a Fellow Commoner of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge

Stuart Newstead

Stuart Newstead is the Chief Executive Officer of Ellare, an independent consultancy. Mr. Newstead has over 25 year of experience in fixed and mobile telecoms, specializing in wireless data strategies, mobile market trends, mergers, acquisitions, MVNO, spectrum auctions, triple play, fiber to the home, ICT and convergence, and the commercial impact of telecoms regulation especially broadband IP & next-generation networks, plus functional and structural separation. He has worked with clients including BT, Virgin Media, Open reach, T-Mobile, O2, 3, Moov, BlackBerry, Cisco, Intel, HP, Sun, Guardian Media, AOL, Yahoo!, Ofcom, European regulators, DFJ Esprit Capital, UK spectrum bidders, NGNuk, and Airwave Solutions.

Mr. Newstead was previously, a Vice President at mobile operator O2, where he devised O2's data strategy and led the exclusive European launch of BlackBerry. Prior to O2, he was GM at BT Wholesale and was instrumental in developing, negotiating and implementing the current UK interconnect regime.

Mr Newstead graduated from Clare College, Cambridge in 1980 and has an MPhil in Statistics from Yale and a MBA from the Henley Management College.