brian oakley has died in august. always hoped i would have a chance to find him before to talk about the alvey programm, but i didn't take a close look at the "real time club" ...

Without Oakley, Conservative PM Maggie Thatcher might not have given IT a seat in government with her creation of a Minister of Information. Without his pushing, Bletchley Park might today be sitting underneath a housing estate in the Midlands. | brian wynne oakley

oakley was also director of logica's research centre in cambridge, after he retired from the civil service, derek barber writes in his currculum vitae summary.