- Marconi Professor of Communication Systems
Biography
I am the Marconi Professor of Communications Systems in the Computer Lab, at the University of Cambridge, and the Turing Inst. almost exactly 100 years after Marconi's "groundbreaking" first transatlantic wireless call, and i am a fellow of Wolfson College; 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, Dataswift, 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 Id Systems, + 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
- Fed Edge workshop and Mobiarch workshop at Mobicom, Sydney, Oct 17 2022
- Computer Science and Law DC, Nov 1-2, 2022
- Computational Governance and Majoritarianism Cambridge, Nov 3rd
- Data for Policy Dec 5,9,13, HK, Seattle, Brussels
- Conext 2022 student workshop and Distributed ML and Data Economy in Rome, 9.12.2022
- Perfail 2023 Atlanta March 2023
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
