Ronald Stamper

BIOGRAPHY

• 1945 Failed 11+ for Grammar School but given a place when 'nice' children were withdrawn
• 1953 Army: short career modelled on the Good Soldier Švej
• 1955 Oxford, University College. Read mathematics and sang 30+ solo tenor roles mostly in the OU Opera Club.
• 1958 Assistant statistician Oxford NHS Hospital Board
• 1960 GKN Steel
• 1962 Ashorne Hill, Management College, Directing Staff
• 1965 Create courses in IS Analysis and Design, Research on semiotics began.
• 1958 ISAD courses became UK national programme and
• joined London School of Economics.
• 1969 LEGOL Project started funded by IBM and two Research Councils.
• 1973 "Information" published by Wiley, NY and Batsford, Lonon, after m/s being lost by each publisher for a couple of years.
• 1979 Presented Semantic Normal Form and thrown of podium by computer scientist objecting to mentions of "ontology", "semantics", "epistemology" leading them "into a philosophical bog." Note. 22 years before Semantic Web proposed. ALSO: Gov't watchdog, NRDC, declared LEGOL so strategically important, forced to reserve results for UK economy
• 1988 to U. Twente, Prof. of Information Management
• 1998 Convened first Int'l Workshop on Organisational Semiotics in Twente.
• 1999 Retired back to UK with MEASUR /LEGOL as success, able to make huge ICT cost savings, and systems easy to adapt to changing requirements and many other more functions, incl. Blockchain, Semantic Temporal DataBase, . . .In 2000s discover NRDC had been privatised and HMG had forgotten "strategic asset".
• As HMG spends £millions on research that can now save £billions, I have decided to find business partner to exploit MEASUR /LEGOL for team.
• 2018 demonstrated that responsibility is a more fundamental concept than truth, thus getting up the noses of computer scientists again.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Sociology
• Human Resource Management
• Organizational Behavior
• Organizational Change
• Human Resources
• Legal Reasoning
• Information Systems