Roger Needham, CBE, FREng, FRS
Emeritus Professor of Computer Systems
Honorary Fellow of Wolfson College

Roger Needham was the Computer Laboratory's head from 1980 to 1995, and Managing Director of Microsoft Research Limited in Cambridge from 1997 until his death in 2003.

• The University's official obituary
• Roger Needham: an informal memoir by his wife, Karen Spärck Jones
• CV
• Publications
• Summary biography
• Computer Systems: Theory, Technology and Applications – Festschrift for the “50+5” event in celebration of Roger Needham on 17 February 2003, edited by Andrew Herbert and Karen Spärck Jones, Springer, 2003.