Jon Crowcroft

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Jon Crowcroft
Born (1957-11-23) November 23, 1957[1]
England
Nationality British (English)
Fields Computer Networking
Distributed systems[2]
Quality of service[3]
Institutions University of Cambridge
University College London
Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge
Alma mater Trinity College, Cambridge
Thesis Lightweight protocols for distributed systems (1993)
Doctoral advisor Peter T. Kirstein[4]
Notable awards Fellow of the Royal Society (2013)
Website
www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~jac22/
www.csap.cam.ac.uk/network/jon-crowcroft
Jonathan Andrew "Jon" Crowcroft, FRS, (born 23 November 1957[5]) is the Marconi Professor of Communications Systems in the Computer Laboratory of the University of Cambridge.[6][7][8]

Education

Crowcroft graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physics from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1979, gained an Master of Science degree in Computing in 1981 and PhD in 1993, both from UCL.

Career

Crowcroft joined the University of Cambridge in 2001, prior to which he was Professor of Networked Systems at University College London in the Computer Science Department.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society,[9] Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery,[10] a Chartered Fellow of the British Computer Society,[11] a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering,[12] as well as a Fellow of the IEEE.[13] He was a member of the Internet Architecture Board 96-02, and attended most of the first 50 IETF meetings. He was general chair for the ACM SIGCOMM conference between 1995 and 1999, and received the SIGCOMM Award in 2009.[14] The award to Jon Crowcroft is "for his pioneering contributions to multimedia and group communications, for his endless enthusiasm and energy, for all of the creative ideas he has so freely shared with so many in the networking community, and for always being outside the box".

Jon has had major contributions to a number of successful start-up projects, such as the Raspberry Pi[citation needed] and Xen. He has been a member of the Scientific Council of IMDEA Networks since 2007. He is also on advisory board of Max Planck Institute for Software Systems .

Jon had written, edited and co-authored a number of books and publications which have been adopted internationally in academic courses, including TCP/IP & Linux Protocol Implementation: Systems Code for the Linux Internet,[15] Internetworking Multimedia[16] and Open Distributed Systems.[2]

Crowcroft has also done research in theoretical network science, particularly in the area of Turing switches, and he has suggested to replace general-purpose computers acting as network switches with specially-built hardware dedicated to packet switching, as well as using optical technology for the same purpose.[17]

References

  1. ↑ "CROWCROFT, Prof. Jonathan Andrew". Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press. (subscription required)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Crowcroft, Jon (1995). Open distributed systems. Boston: Artech House. ISBN 0-89006-839-9. 
  3. ↑ Zheng Wang; Crowcroft, J. (1996). "Quality-of-service routing for supporting multimedia applications". IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications 14 (7): 1228. doi:10.1109/49.536364. 
  4. ↑ Jon Crowcroft at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ↑ "Jon Crowcroft's calendar". Retrieved 2009-07-17. 
  6. ↑ List of publications from Google Scholar
  7. ↑ List of publications from Microsoft Academic Search
  8. ↑ List of publications from the DBLP Bibliography Server
  9. ↑ "Professor Jon Crowcroft FRS". Retrieved 2013-05-07. 
  10. ↑ "Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery". Retrieved 2009-10-26. 
  11. ↑ "Chartered Fellows of the British Computer Society". Retrieved 2009-10-26. 
  12. ↑ "Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering". Retrieved 2009-10-26. 
  13. ↑ "IEEE Fellow Class of 2004". Retrieved 2009-10-26. 
  14. ↑ "SIGCOMM Award Recipients". ACM SIGCOMM. Retrieved 2009-07-14. 
  15. ↑ Phillips, Iain; Crowcroft, Jon (2002). TCP/IP and Linux protocol implementation: systems code for the Linux Internet. New York: Wiley. ISBN 0-471-40882-4. 
  16. ↑ Wakeman, Ian; Crowcroft, Jon; Handley, Mark (1999). Internetworking multimedia. Washington, DC: Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0-7484-0808-8. 
  17. ↑ Jon Crowcroft Turing Switches. Turing machines for all-optical Internet routing UCAM-CL-TR-556 ISSN 1476-2986 January 2003

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