Mike Lynch

Autonomy founder, and his friends, predict beyond next year

The urge to make predictions is inevitable at this time of year but I am going out on a limb - rather than make a forecast for next year, I am going to look even deeper into my crystal ball and make some suggestions for what we might consider to be standard technology in five years’ time. read more

On this day last week Barack Obama won a second term as US President and as Mike Lynch explores it was his innovative use of Big Data that won the election

One thing has become clear from this election: not all polls are created equal. read more

Stemming the declining flow of technology talent

Teenagers are leaving school without the core toolkit of science and maths essential to the UK’s engineering economy. It’s time to stem the decline in STEM read more

The future is already upon us

BYOD, big data, the Internet of Things and intelligent security are all ushering in major change to how we interact with technology and what it can do for us read more

Will the real Cloud Computing please stand up?

Cloud services are about to enter a new phase in the market's maturity says Mike Lynch, founder of Autonomy. He makes a number of observations on what this could mean read more

Apple and Facebook have our data sown up, but the corn tastes good, for now

whilst Apple and Facebook in this age of data in the cloud are pulling out all the stops to own our consumer data, who is playing the same game for the enterprise? read more

Let young minds climb the tree of knowledge, don't hand them a poisoned apple

A visit to an exhibition devoted to the father of modern computing has caused another British visionary to warn against the narrow-mindedness that hastened Turing's end read more

Users must come first when creating and marketing products

Amid the noise of buzzword-heavy marketing messages, a product’s benefits to the end user can be overlooked. It’s time everyone followed Apple’s user-focused lead read more

Instant business data is of little use if we human's aren't quick enough to act on it

Technology can deliver real-time information across all kinds of platforms and devices, but our inability to act on this data remains the barrier to its success read more

Technology has beaten us for speed, but humans still have creativity on their side

Technology has grown faster than human capabilities ever will, but we must not let computers take control. CIOs must use their creative skills to harness the beast read more

ICT teaching lacks the fizz to get students interested

If teachers want to get students excited about computing, says Autonomy's Mike Lynch, they have to help them explore it properly. Excel spreadsheets and Powerpoint slides aren't enough read more

Is your smartphone too smart for its own good?

Computers will soon be able to use our smartphones to understand where we are and what we might be doing, blurring the line between security and privacy still further read more