Peter G. Harrison

Peter Harrison
Born 1951 (age 60–61)
Nottingham[1]
Residence London, UK
Citizenship British
Fields performance analysis
Institutions Imperial College London
Alma mater University of Cambridge
Imperial College London
Doctoral advisor Meir M. Lehman
Doctoral students Ashok Argent-Katwala (2006)
Susanna Au-Yeung (2008)
William Knottenbelt (2000)
Catalina Matas (2001)
Ben Strulo (1993)
Harf Zatschler (2004)[2]
Known for RCAT
Notable awards Mayhew Prize (1973)

Peter George Harrison (born 1951) is a Professor of Computing Science at Imperial College London.[3]

Education

Harrison attended Christ's College, Cambridge, where he was a Wrangler in Mathematics (1972) and gained a Distinction in Part III of the Mathematical Tripos (1973), winning the Mayhew Prize for Applied Mathematics.[4]

Professional life and research

After spending two years in industry, Harrison moved to Imperial College, London where he has worked since, obtaining his Ph.D. in Computing Science in 1979 with a thesis titled "Representative queueing network models of computer systems in terms of time delay probability distributions" and lecturing since 1983.[5]

Current research interests include parallel algorithms, performance engineering, queueing theory, stochastic models and stochastic process algebra, particularly the application of RCAT to find product form solutions.[6]

Harrison has coauthored two books, Functional Programming with Tony Field,[7] and Performance Modelling of Communication Networks and Computer Architectures with Naresh Patel[8] and published over 150 papers.[9]

Harrison is an associate editor of The Computer Journal.[10]

Via Saharon Shelah and Dov Gabbay, Harrison has an Erdős number of 3.[11]

References

  1. ^ Harrison, Peter G. (1986). "An Enhanced Approximation by Pair-Wise Analysis of Servers for Time Delay Distributions in Queueing Networks". IEEE transactions on computers (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) 35 (1 (January)): 54–61. doi:10.1109/TC.1986.1676657. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&isnumber=35249&arnumber=1676657. Retrieved 2009-04-05. 
  2. ^ Peter G. Harrison at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
  3. ^ "Harrison's Personal Home Page". Imperial College London. http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~pgh/. 
  4. ^ ""Turning Back Time - What Impact on Performance?" lecturer biography". British Computer Society. http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.23085. Retrieved 2009-03-17. 
  5. ^ Gelenbe, Erol (2000). System performance evaluation: methodologies and applications. CRC Press. p. 330. ISBN 0849323576. 
  6. ^ "Peter Harrison biography". Analysis, Engineering, Simulation & Optimization of Performance group at Imperial College. http://aesop.doc.ic.ac.uk/people/pgh/. 
  7. ^ Field, Anthony J.; Harrison, Peter G. (1988). Functional programming. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0201192497, 9780201192490. 
  8. ^ Harrison, Peter G.; Patel, Naresh M. (1992). Performance Modelling of Communication Networks and Computer Architectures. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0201544199, 9780201544190 
  9. ^ "Professor Peter Harrison's Publications". Imperial College London. http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/people/p.harrison/publications. Retrieved 2009-05-01. 
  10. ^ "Editorial board of The Computer Journal". Oxford Journals. http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/computer_journal/editorial_board.html. Retrieved 2009-03-17. 
  11. ^ "List of Department of Computing, Imperial College staff by Erdos number". http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~iccp/erdos.html.