The Computer Journal: 65th Anniversary Perspectives

To celebrate The Computer Journal’s 65th anniversary, we have invited our Deputy Editors to write perspectives on key articles by esteemed international authors from across the journal’s long history, to both highlight the role our extensive corpus of research papers has had since 1958, and the legacy that they have created for both the journal itself and for global computing research and practice.

Over this period, we wish to acknowledge the role of innumerable authors and researchers, our peer reviewers, our publishing team, as well as our editors and editorial boards. Over the past 65 years of the journal, we can identify wide-reaching impact across the breadth of computing research and practice — both in computer science as a broad discipline, but also socially, culturally and certainly economically. We continue to see the importance of high-quality fundamental computing research and its interdisciplinary application to a variety of domains and contexts. We have also seen the changing nature of academic publishing and scholarly communications, and the rise of open access and open science/research. The Computer Journal has adapted over this period — and will continue to adapt — to these challenges, to provide a venue for excellent and impactful computing research to researchers across the world.

Please join with all of us at BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, in partnership with Oxford University Press, in celebrating the 65th anniversary of The Computer Journal through these perspectives and the referenced articles themselves, which are all freely available to read online.

Professor Tom Crick, Editor-in-Chief, The Computer Journal (2021-present)

Published 7th November 2023

Steve Furnell on Domains of protection and the management of processes