David De Roure from David De Roure on 2001-11-12 (www-webont-wg@w3.org from November 2001) (original) (raw)

I'm the alternate Nick Gibbins. :-)

I'm Professor of Computer Science in the Intelligence Agents Multimedia research group here at University of Southampton, where I am a member of the Advanced Knowledge Technologies team and lead our participation in another large interdiscipinary project called EQUATOR, which is about the convergence of digital and physical worlds. I also coordinate our grid computing activities (called "e-Science" over here).

My background is in large scale distributed systems (distributed Lisp actually) which manifests itself in my pervasive computing and grid computing activities, and basically I live on the bridge between such systems and knowledge technologies. For example, I'm very interested in continuous metadata supporting live collaboration. I use agent based computing in most of my projects.

Meanwhile I'm one of the programme chairs of the next Web conference - in which we have introduced the semantic web track - and as Nick said I'm W3C advisory committee rep for University of Southampton.

My nearest airport is:

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Regards to all

-- Dave

Prof David C De Roure phone +44 (0)23 8059 2418 IAM Research Group fax +44 (0)23 8059 2865 Dept of Electronics and Computer Science
University of Southampton email dder@ecs.soton.ac.uk Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK http://www.soton.ac.uk/~dder

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