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][3] He was educated at Gravesend Grammar School and Hertford College, Oxford graduating with a degree in physics in 1973.
[4] The same year he began work at the BBC as a design engineer.
His "2D DVE for Virtual Studios" won Video R&D Achievement of the Year at the International Broadcasting Awards 1996,[8] and his hardware implementation of the BBC's patented Transform PAL Decoder[9] has been acclaimed as probably the best PAL decoder in the world.
[13][14] In addition to creating BBC BASIC for Windows, Russell also runs a support group for the language to which he regularly contributes tips, advice and comments on other users' code.