User:SteveShirley

I'm interested in refugees, being one myself. I'm classed as a late pioneer of computing. I'm in the National Museum of Computing, so you're talking with a museum piece! In 1962, way back in computer terms, I set up one of the first software houses in the UK - but it was a social business, owned by women, for women, and managed by women. My interest in supporting women means that I'm learning to edit at the BBC 100 Women Wiki event. This eventually became very successful - so I became wealthy - and 70 of my colleagues also became millionaires (the company was 1/4 owned by the staff). Post-retirement, I moved on to the field of autism - my late son was autistic - and I have set up several charities concerned with autisim and information technology.