28 PROFESSOR LIZ BACON
BCS President; Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University of Greenwich
Keeping pace with the change of IT is like changing the pipes whilst the water is running. IT has such a breadth of fields; I find it distressing when IT people are stereotyped as the nerd in a corner with poor communication skills and so on.
That said, I have to admit I love programming; there is nothing more frustrating when your code doesn’t work and nothing more satisfying when it leaps into life. However, I love all the other bits of IT too.
So how did I end up in the most interesting and fascinating job ever? I put it all down to one very significant ...
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