Jon Crowcroft

Jon Crowcroft
Born (1957-11-23) 23 November 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]
Doctoral students Mark Handley[5][4]
Notable awards FRS (2013)
FREng[6] (1999)

Website

Jonathan Andrew "Jon" Crowcroft, FRS, FREng[7] (born 23 November 1957[8]) is the Marconi Professor of Communications Systems in the Computer Laboratory of the University of Cambridge.[9][10][11]

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 University College London.

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,[12] Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery,[13] a Chartered Fellow of the British Computer Society,[14] a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers and a Fellow[15] of the Royal Academy of Engineering,[16] as well as a Fellow of the IEEE.[17] 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.[18] 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 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,[19] Internetworking Multimedia[20] 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.[21]

Awards and honours

Crowcroft was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2013. 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.[22] ”

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. 1 2 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. 1 2 Jon Crowcroft at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ↑ Handley, Mark James (1997). On internet multimedia conference control (PhD thesis). University College London.
  6. ↑ "List of Fellows".
  7. ↑ "List of Fellows".
  8. ↑ "Jon Crowcroft's calendar". Retrieved 17 July 2009.
  9. ↑ Jon Crowcroft's publications indexed by Google Scholar, a service provided by Google
  10. ↑ List of publications from Microsoft Academic Search
  11. ↑ Jon Crowcroft's publications indexed by the DBLP Bibliography Server at the University of Trier
  12. ↑ "Professor Jon Crowcroft FRS". Retrieved 7 May 2013.
  13. ↑ "Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery". Retrieved 26 October 2009.
  14. ↑ "Chartered Fellows of the British Computer Society". Retrieved 26 October 2009.
  15. ↑ "List of Fellows".
  16. ↑ "Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering". Retrieved 26 October 2009.
  17. ↑ "IEEE Fellow Class of 2004". Retrieved 26 October 2009.
  18. ↑ "SIGCOMM Award Recipients". ACM SIGCOMM. Retrieved 14 July 2009.
  19. ↑ 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.
  20. ↑ Wakeman, Ian; Crowcroft, Jon; Handley, Mark (1999). Internetworking multimedia. Washington, DC: Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0-7484-0808-8.
  21. ↑ Jon Crowcroft Turing Switches. Turing machines for all-optical Internet routing UCAM-CL-TR-556 ISSN 1476-2986 January 2003
  22. ↑ crowcroft

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