Frank Land OBE, the British information systems researcher, LEO pioneer and the UK’s first Professor of Information Systems, died on 16 May at the at the age of 97.

Wikipedia, The Times, the Guardian, The Annals of IT, the Cambridge Centre for Computing History, TNMoC , the LSE and the Computer History Museum of Mountain View California have all published Obituaries. Also BBC Radio 4 transmitted a “Last Word” Interview.

The Times published an Obituary on 18th June 2026 which you can read Here

The Guardian Newspaper Published an Obituary written by Georgina Ferry Here

Wikipedia has an Obituary Here

There is comment on Social Media already and an Obituary on Annals of IT, Here

The Centre for Computer History (CCH) have posted on their website Here and on Facebook

And a Facebook post from TNMoC Here

London School of Economics have posted on their LinkedIn Here

Dag Spicer of the Computer History museum , Mountain View, California, posted on LinkedIn Here

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