• Inventor of the World's first Pocket PCs and PDAs
• Original inventor of the PCMCIA PC Card movement and its specifications
• Inventor of ground-breaking User Interface design - Informal Interfaces
• One of the architects of Symbian's EPOC OS
  
  Ian also has a long-held interest in melding together Art, Design and Creativity into conventional hi-tech. This arose from his early days in video games programming (for EMI and Psion) on such ancient machines as 8-bit Ataris and the Sinclair Spectrum. In those days a software programmer had to be (1) story board writer, (2) graphics designer, and (3) coder, which was a wonderful mix of creativity and technology, perhaps a lost art (or science?!) nowadays.
  
  His PhD thesis is in the cross-disciplinary subjects of Cognitive Science, Ergonomics, Psychology and Computer Science, in the area of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). His research was in bringing together sketch, drawing and the "gist" of an informal representation, all into conventional computing systems.

Consulting:

• Software
• Hardware
• PCs, Win32
• PDAs, Palm OS, WinCE/Pocket PC, EPOC
• Product Development
• Business Development
• Market Development
• Legal Expert Witness
• Venture Capital Due Diligence

Development:

• Informal Software
• Annotation Technologies
• RFID
• On-Device Portals

Research:

• Informal Interfaces
• User Interfaces