Bill Thompson
Advisory Board Member at W4MP Partnership
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBill Thompson is a veteran technologist, journalist and advisor who has shaped how public institutions and audiences engage with the internet since the 1980s. As Principal Research Engineer at BBC R&D and an Advisory Board member at the Oxford Internet Institute, he blends hands-on engineering with research into AI, voice, archives and public service models. He founded and runs w4mp.org to support MPs’ staff, and for over two decades was the regular technology expert on the BBC World Service’s Digital Planet, bringing complex tech stories to broad audiences. Former Head of New Media at The Guardian and early Internet Ambassador for PIPEX, he established one of the UK’s first major news websites and helped launch notable projects like Eurosoccer.com. An Adjunct Professor and board member of the Web Science Trust, he combines academic insight, cultural-sector advisory work and practical product delivery. Less obvious: he’s kept a continuous public-facing role as a commentator and archivist while quietly shipping engineering and partnership work across the BBC’s Make It Digital and archive programmes.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School 'O' and 'A' levels, High School 'O' and 'A' levels at Southwood School, CorbyMaster’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at St Catharine's College, Cambridge University
EnglishGithub contributions (2)
bbcbillt/hello-world
Aug 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
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