This month’s staff bio is Marco. Marco is our Senior IT Helpdesk engineer here at Matrix. Originally from South Africa, Marco moved to the UK in 2013 and joined Matrix in 2017. What is your name, age, place of birth, job role and length of service at Matrix IT? I am 37, born in Johannesburg South Africa…
This month’s staff bio is Lou, our Operations Director. She has been a loyal team member for twelve years. We hope you enjoy finding out a little bit more about the person behind the operation What is your name, age, place of birth, job role and length of service at Matrix IT Louise Gascoigne, Operations…
Steve Wozniak – 1976 Steve Wozniak born in 1950, was a Co-founder of the biggest global tech company, Apple. From a young boy, he had a growing passion for electronics and was further educated in this field. After meeting Ronald Wayne* through Steve Jobs in the early 1970’s, they planned together their venture in electronics….
As Christmas approaches, amidst sore heads, panic buying for our partners and Brexit being all over the news, we now have to remember more passwords, to avoid our well earned money being syphoned out of our accounts through the internet. The list below, whilst not exhaustive, gives you a good start at protecting yourself against…
Steve Jobs – 1955 Steve Jobs born in 1955 was one the co-founders of Apple. Apple is a technology company founded in 1976, now ranked the largest technology company in the world. Steve Jobs first taste of the industry was at HP where at 13 years old did a summer internship at the HP factory….
Tommy Flowers – 1944 Tommy Flowers, born in 1905 had a passion for machines and as a result studied an apprenticeship in mechanical engineering. Later he received his electrical engineering degree and began work at the British Post Office. In 1941, Flowers began work with Alan Turing’s machine at Bletchley Park. From this began design…
One click is all they need. Are you going to get caught out in the lead up to Christmas? In the lead up to Christmas, we inevitably become busier, fitting Christmas shopping in and around our day to day work (or instead of work!). Things get missed, slip through the net and this is what…
Hewlett & Packard – 1939 William Hewlett, born 1913 and Dave Packard, born 1912 founded ‘HP’ Hewlett Packard Enterprise in 1939. They invented the oscillator. A machine that could equally test the quality of sound equipment. Soon after, Walt Disney bought 8 oscillators. HP released an invention they are best known for today which, although…
Alan Turing – 1936 Alan Turing born 1912. Turing was educated at both Cambridge and Princeton which led him to write multiple papers on computer science. He invented the concept of the problem-solving machine that could execute simple sums, find square roots and solve sudoku puzzles. He later also designed his first concept of ‘Artificial…
William Barton Rogers – 1861/1865 William Barton Rogers born in 1804. As early as the 1840s he had wanted to create an educational environment to teach a high-level education of technology. Finally, in 1861 he founded Massachusetts Institute of Technology, better known as MIT and in 1865 it was open to students. Today, MIT hosts…