IET Anglian Coastal Events

Dina St Johnston was founder of the UK's first Software House. Dina left school at 16, studied for a Mathematics degree part-time and joined Elliott-Automation in 1953. She left Elliott-Automation in 1958 to start her own company, Vaughan Programming Services. In this talk we will illustrate some of Dina's projects and set her life in the context of about 50 other women pioneers who started work as computer programmers between 1949 and 1959.

This talk explores the evolution of traditional broadcast production, which relies on proprietary hardware and on-site personnel, and how this model is being transformed through cloud-based solutions. We will examine the transition from on-premise broadcast equipment to modern cloud environments, enabling remote operations from virtually anywhere. Key industry initiatives will be discussed, focusing on how extremely high data rates (up to 0.5Tbit/s) are managed with millisecond latency.

The developments in telecommunications over the last 150 years have quite literally changed the world. This lecture will tell the story from the early days when all calls were connected manually through the development of automatic step by step switching, the overcoming of distance with frequency division multiplex technology, the first electronic exchanges, digitisation of the transmission network, advanced electronic switching and transmission systems and much more.