Jon Crowcroft

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Jon Crowcroft
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Born
Jonathan Andrew Crowcroft

(1957-11-23) 23 November 1957 (age 66) [1]
England
NationalityBritish (English)
Education Westminster School
Alma mater University of Cambridge (BA)
University College London (MSc, PhD)
Awards ACM Fellow (2002)
SIGCOMM Award (2009)
Scientific career
Fields Computer Networks
Distributed systems [2]
Quality of service [3]
Institutions University of Cambridge
University College London
Thesis Lightweight protocols for distributed systems  (1993)
Doctoral advisor Peter T. Kirstein [4]
Doctoral students Mark Handley [4] [5] Pan Hui [6] [7]
Website www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~jac22/ OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Jonathan Andrew Crowcroft (born 23 November 1957) [8] is the Marconi Professor of Communications Systems in the Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge, a visiting professor at the Department of Computing at Imperial College London, and the chair of the programme committee at the Alan Turing Institute. [9] [10]

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Education

Crowcroft was educated at Westminster School [11] and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in physics in 1979 from the University of Cambridge where he was an undergraduate student of Trinity College, Cambridge. He then gained a Master of Science degree in computing in 1981 and PhD in 1993, [12] both from University College London.

Career and research

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. After he stepped down from UCL, he was succeeded by his former PhD student Mark Handley. As of 2020 he is a Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge.

Crowcroft contributed to successful start-up projects.[ clarification needed ] He has been a member of the Scientific Council of IMDEA Networks Institute since 2007. He served on the advisory board of Max Planck Institute for Software Systems .

Crowcroft has written, edited and co-authored books and publications [9] which have been adopted internationally in academic courses, including TCP/IP & Linux Protocol Implementation: Systems Code for the Linux Internet, [13] Internetworking Multimedia [14] 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. [15]

He is a director of the Matrix Foundation. [16]

Awards and honours

Crowcroft was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2013. [17] His nomination reads:

Professor Jon Crowcroft is distinguished for his many seminal contributions to the development of the Internet. His work on satellite link interconnection techniques in the 1980s paved the way for rural broadband; his work on standards for video and voice on IP networks helped extend the Internet to multimedia; and in the 2000s he founded the field of opportunistic networking.[ citation needed ]

He was elected an ACM Fellow in 2003, [18] a chartered fellow of the British Computer Society, [19] a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers and a Fellow [1] of the Royal Academy of Engineering, [20] as well as a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2004. [21] He was a member of the Internet Architecture Board 1996-2002, [22] and attended most[ quantify ] of the first 50 Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) meetings.[ citation needed ]

Crowcroft served as general chair for the ACM SIGCOMM conference between 1995 and 1999, and received the SIGCOMM Award in 2009. [23] The award to Crowcroft was

"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". [23]

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References

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  2. 1 2 Crowcroft, Jon (1995). Open distributed systems. Boston: Artech House. ISBN   978-0-89006-839-7.
  3. ↑ Zheng Wang; Crowcroft, J (1996). "Quality-of-service routing for supporting multimedia applications". IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. 14 (7): 1228. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.136.9862 . doi:10.1109/49.536364. S2CID   11332367.
  4. 1 2 Jon Crowcroft at the Mathematics Genealogy Project OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  5. ↑ Handley, Mark James (1997). On internet multimedia conference control (PhD thesis). University College London. OCLC   557338156. EThOS   uk.bl.ethos.285140.
  6. ↑ Hui, Pan (2008). People are the network: experimental design and evaluation of social-based forwarding algorithms (PhD thesis).
  7. ↑ "Phd Family Tree of Jon's" . Retrieved 2 December 2020.
  8. ↑ "Jon Crowcroft's calendar" . Retrieved 17 July 2009.
  9. 1 2 Jon Crowcroft publications indexed by Google Scholar OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  10. ↑ Jon Crowcroft at DBLP Bibliography Server OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  11. ↑ www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~jac22/ OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  12. ↑ Crowcroft, Jonathan Andrew (1993). Lightweight protocols for distributed systems. ucl.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of London. OCLC   940339238. EThOS   uk.bl.ethos.812029. Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg
  13. ↑ Phillips, Iain; Crowcroft, Jon (2002). TCP/IP and Linux protocol implementation: systems code for the Linux Internet. New York: Wiley. ISBN   978-0-471-40882-6.
  14. ↑ Wakeman, Ian; Crowcroft, Jon; Handley, Mark (1999). Internetworking multimedia. Washington, DC: Taylor & Francis. ISBN   978-0-7484-0808-5.
  15. ↑ Jon Crowcroft Turing Switches. Turing machines for all-optical Internet routing UCAM-CL-TR-556 ISSN 1476-2986 January 2003
  16. ↑ "About Matrix". matrix.org. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
  17. ↑ Anon (2013). "Professor Jon Crowcroft FRS". royalsociety.org. Royal Society . Retrieved 7 May 2013.
  18. ↑ "ACM Fellows". Association for Computing Machinery. Archived from the original on 15 June 2009. Retrieved 26 October 2009.
  19. ↑ "Register of Chartered IT Professionals". British Computer Society. Retrieved 26 October 2009.
  20. ↑ "Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering". Royal Academy of Engineering. Archived from the original on 12 June 2011. Retrieved 26 October 2009.
  21. ↑ "IEEE Fellow Class of 2004". IEEE. Archived from the original on 17 April 2009. Retrieved 26 October 2009.
  22. ↑ "History | Internet Architecture Board". iab.org. Retrieved 8 September 2021.
  23. 1 2 "SIGCOMM Award Recipients". ACM SIGCOMM. Retrieved 14 July 2009.
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