Biography
I am the Marconi Professor of Communications Systems in the Computer Lab, at the University of Cambridge, and researcher-at-large at the Turing Inst. almost exactly 100 years after Marconi's "groundbreaking" first transatlantic wireless call, and i am a fellow of Wolfson College; plus Visiting Prof at Imperilal I-X and DoC;two decades ago, i was a professor in the Department of Computer Science University College London. i also am an honorary prof in stats there now. i graduated in Physics from Trinity College, Cambridge University in 1979. i got an MSc in Computing in 1981, and PhD in 1993 both from UCL. (before that i even went to primary and 2ndary school once). i'm a fellow of the Royal Society, the ACM, the British Computer Society, the IET the Royal Academy of Engineering and the IEEE. I'm a member of UCU and have been (or its equivalent) since 1979. Technical advisory boards i am on include iKVA, Matrix, Dataswyft, CognitionX, Ensemble, Foundation for Information Policy Research. Transition Lab, IMDEA Networks
Research
- current phd students
- Law & Cloud supported by Microsoft.
- The Turing Institute for AI + Trustworthy Digital Infrastructure , interest groups + annual conference + policy + and my interests and reading.
- The Centre for ReDecentralisation
- Cyber Security + Science and Policy for UK gov
- future phds: my reading+roles+movies -- the future is already here, its just unfairly distributed
output
- Blog (research related)
- papers + talks + projects
- gadgets + ware (books/code) + tabs (cure) + names xen (x), & Zen), & raspberry pi (r) and unikernels
- Some original Raspberry Pi Projects & plus Computing with People for CAS
- A typical week in 2009
- music i was involved in
- past students, work and whereabouts, and advisor family tree
conferences
- CADE Jul 14-16, Venice
- Sigcomm Sep 8-11, Coimbra
- Data for Policy 2025 Shanghai,23-24 Oct.
- FL edge ai Nov 8, HK
journals
- Data and Policy journal & blog
- IEEE/Transactions on Networks editor at large
- Communications of the ACM Research Highlights
- IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials
- IEEE Network Magazine
- Internet Protocol Journal
- Federated, IoT meets ML
