Richard T. Russell
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Richard Thomas Russell is the creator of the BBC BASIC for Windows programming language and the author of the Z80 and MS-DOS versions of BBC BASIC[1] [2].
He was educated at Gravesend Grammar School and graduated in 1973 with a degree in physics from the University of Oxford in the UK. The same year he started at the British Broadcasting Corporation as a design engineer.
During his career with the BBC he was involved with several high-profile projects including the BBC Microcomputer[3] [4] and the BBC Domesday Project[5]. He retired from the BBC in 2006.
His '2D DVE for Virtual Studios' won Video R&D Achievement of the Year at the International Broadcasting Awards 1996, and his hardware implementation of the BBC's patented Transform PAL Decoder has been acclaimed as probably the best PAL decoder in the world[6].
In 2008 he developed a technique for recovering the colour from black-and-white telerecordings of TV programmes, making it possible to restore full colour versions of programmes for which no conventional colour recordings exist[7].
He is married and lives in Norfolk, UK.
Notes
- ^ Barry Collins, BBC Basic: the people's language, PC Pro, September 2006, pp140-141, ISSN 1355-4603
- ^ Douglas J Mounter, The BBC BASIC (Z80) Reference Manual for the Z88, February 1989, ISBN 1 871 89500 6
- ^ John Coll, BBC Micro User Guide, British Broadcasting Corporation 1982, page 2, ISBN 0 563 16558 8
- ^ Carol Atack, From Atom to Arc, Acorn User, October 1988, ISSN 0263-7456
- ^ Andy Finney, The BBC Domesday Project, 2007 (bottom of page)
- ^ Jim Easterbrook, The BBC transform PAL decoder, February 2008
- ^ Mark Nelson, Colour conundrums, Everyday Practical Electronics, September 2008, page 16, ISSN 0262-3617
External links
- Richard Russell's website
- Richard Russell's blog
- Richard Russell's career in the BBC, Part 1
- Richard Russell's career in the BBC, Part 2
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