Guest Lecture

Prof. Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge

Innovative Business Cases & The Internet of Things

or

How to put Linear Types, Control Theory and Bigraphs into one neat storyline

Wednesday, 11.12.2013 at 16:30

Room D122, Exactum

Abstract

This talk is about the HAT project (see http://hubofallthings.wordpress.com/) which is a novel research collaboration to understand the potential for Internet style new business models (such as Google's click through and analytics - two sided markets) in the IoT world.

Speaker bio

Jon Crowcroft has been the Marconi Professor of Communications Systems in the Computer Laboratory since October 2001. He has worked in the area of Internet support for multimedia communications for over 30 years. Three main topics of interest have been scalable multicast routing, practical approaches to traffic management, and the design of deployable end-to-end protocols. Current active research areas are Opportunistic Communications, Social Networks, and techniques and algorithms to scale infrastructure-free mobile systems. He leans towards a "build and learn" paradigm for research.

He graduated in Physics from Trinity College, University of Cambridge in 1979, gained an MSc in Computing in 1981 and PhD in 1993, both from UCL. He is a Fellow the Royal Society, a Fellow of the ACM, a Fellow of the British Computer Society, a Fellow of the IET and the Royal Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the IEEE.

He likes teaching, and has published a few books based on learning materials.

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