Two top ICL executives are to advise the UK Department of Trade and Industry on its computing strategy: ICL’s director of Systems Integration Strategy Dr Chris Cheetham has been appointed Director of Systems Architecture in the ministry’s Information Engineering Directorate, where he will have responsibility for running the new national collaborative programme in the area of systems architecture, covering parallel processing, distributed systems, speech and vision; and ICL board member Dr Nigel Horne will be chairman of the new committee advising both the Department and the Science and Engineering Research Council on policy and funding for computing and telecommunications.
