Derek McAuley

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Derek McAuley
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Alma mater University of Cambridge
Awards
Scientific career
Institutions University of Glasgow
University of Nottingham
Thesis Protocol Design for High Speed Networks  (1989)
Doctoral advisor Ian Leslie
Website www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~drm/

Derek Robert McAuley FREng [1] is a British academic who is Professor of Digital Economy in the School of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham [2] and director of Horizon Digital Economy Research, [3] an interdisciplinary research institute funded through the RCUK Digital Economy programme. [4] He acted as a Specialist Advisor to the House of Lords European Union Committee into online platforms, and Chief Innovation Officer during the founding of the Digital Catapult. [5] He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and member of the UKCRC, a computing research expert panel of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and BCS. [6]

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Academic career

McAuley undertook his PhD in computer science at the Cambridge University Computer Laboratory for which his thesis topic was Protocol Design for High Speed Networks. From 1990 to 1995 McAuley was a lecturer at the Computer Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. In 1995 he became a professor in computer science at the University of Glasgow, a position which he held until 1997. In 2009 he moved to the University of Nottingham as Professor of Digital Economy and director of the Horizon Digital Economy Research Hub.

Career in industry

McAuley returned to Cambridge in July 1997, as co-founder and deputy director of the Cambridge Microsoft Research facility. He then founded Intel Research Cambridge in 2002 and held the position of director until 2005 before undertaking the role as staff architect at Intel's Systems Technology Lab in Oregon. In August 2006, McAuley joined the start-up company XenSource as a senior director prior to its acquisition by Citrix. In 2007 he then moved to Netronome as chief technology officer, a position he held until December 2008.

Research

McAuley's current research expertise is in ubiquitous computing, computer architecture, networking, distributed systems and operating systems. He is also interested in the interdisciplinary issues [7] of ethics, identity, privacy, [8] information policy, legislation and economics within a digital society and has been outspoken on the risks of naive adoption of technology. [9] [10] A full list of recent publications is published on the University of Nottingham website. [11]

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References

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  2. "Derek McAuley - The University of Nottingham". Nottingham.ac.uk. 12 September 2013. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
  3. "Operations and Directors of Horizon". Horizon.ac.uk. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
  4. "Research Hubs - RCUK". Rcuk.ac.uk. 23 February 2012. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
  5. "Connected Digital Economy - Meet the Team". Cde.catapult.org.uk. Archived from the original on 25 March 2014. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
  6. "Members of UKCRC - The IET". Ukcrc.org.uk. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
  7. Prof Derek McAuley - Interrogating Interdisciplinarity on YouTube
  8. "How WWI codebreakers taught your gas meter to snitch on you". The Conversation. 31 July 2014.
  9. Ansgar Koene; Derek McAuley (25 October 2016). "Could your kettle bring down the Internet?".
  10. Oscar Williams (17 July 2015). "Home, smart home: how safe will you really be in the house of the future?". The Guardian.
  11. "Derek McAuley - The University of Nottingham". Nottingham.ac.uk. 12 September 2013. Retrieved 20 January 2014.