Prof Jon Crowcroft from the University of Cambridge discusses the eco-system that his research group is trying to build in their Hub-of-all-things project.
The lecture is free and open to all. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.
In this talk the speaker will discuss the eco-system that his research group is trying to build in their Hub-of-all-things project.
This is a novel research program in which they are attempting to create a new, multi-sided market for the Internet of Things, constructed around several novel principles, including: cross market-segment applications; multi-sided market based business models; strong privacy-by-design deployment; new, decentralized and federated approach to IoT/Cloud analytics. The talk is based on a work-in-progress, and hence is highly speculative.
About the speaker
Prof Jon Crowcroft received his PhD from University College London in 1993, and was Professor of Networked Systems of its Computer Science Department until 2001. He joined the University of Cambridge after that, and is currently Marconi Professor of Communication Systems.
Prof Crowcroft’s research interests include communications, multimedia and social systems, especially Internet related. His work on satellite link interconnection techniques in the 1980s paved the way for rural broadband, and his work on standards for video and voice on IP networks helped extend the Internet to multimedia. He founded the field of opportunistic networking in the 2000s. He 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, Internetworking Multimedia and Open Distributed Systems.
Prof Crowcroft has received prestigious awards including the SIGCOMM Award for his pioneering contributions to multimedia and group communication. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Association for Computing Machinery, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and a Chartered Fellow of the British Computer Society.
The lecture is free and open to all. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.
