Jon Crowcroft | |
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| Born | Jonathan Andrew Crowcroft (1957-11-23)23 November 1957 (age 67)[7] England |
| Nationality | British (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[1] Quality of service[2] |
| Institutions | University of Cambridge University College London |
| Thesis | Lightweight protocols for distributed systems (1993) |
| Doctoral advisor | Peter T. Kirstein[3] |
| Doctoral students | Mark Handley[3][4]Pan Hui[5][6] |
| Website | www |
Jonathan Andrew Crowcroft (born 23 November 1957)[8] is theMarconi Professor of Communications Systems in theDepartment 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 theAlan Turing Institute.[9][10]
Crowcroft was educated atWestminster School[11] and graduated with aBachelor of Arts degree inphysics in 1979 from theUniversity of Cambridge where he was an undergraduate student ofTrinity College, Cambridge. He then gained aMaster of Science degree incomputing in 1981 andPhD in 1993,[12] both fromUniversity College London.
Crowcroft joined the University of Cambridge in 2001, prior to which he was Professor of Networked Systems atUniversity College London in the Computer Science Department. After he stepped down from UCL, he was succeeded by his former PhD studentMark Handley. As of 2020[update] he is aFellow ofWolfson College, Cambridge.
Crowcroft contributed to successful start-up projects.[clarification needed] He has been a member of the Scientific Council ofIMDEA Networks Institute since 2007. He served on the advisory board ofMax Planck Institute for Software Systems .
Crowcroft has written, edited and co-authored books and publications[9] which have been adopted internationally in academic courses, includingTCP/IP & Linux Protocol Implementation: Systems Code for the Linux Internet,[13]Internetworking Multimedia[14] and Open Distributed Systems.[1]
Crowcroft has also done research in theoreticalnetwork science, particularly in the area of Turing switches, and he has suggested to replace general-purpose computers acting asnetwork switches with specially-built hardware dedicated topacket switching, as well as using optical technology for the same purpose.[15]
He is a director of theMatrix Foundation.[16]
Crowcroft was elected aFellow 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 onsatellite link interconnection techniques in the 1980s paved the way forrural broadband; his work on standards for video andvoice 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 anACM Fellow in 2003,[18] a chartered fellow of theBritish Computer Society,[19] a Fellow of theInstitution of Electrical Engineers and aFellow[7] of theRoyal Academy of Engineering,[20] as well as a Fellow of theInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2004.[21] He was a member of theInternet Architecture Board 1996-2002,[22] and attendedmost[quantify] of the first 50Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) meetings.[citation needed]
Crowcroft served as general chair for the ACMSIGCOMM conference between 1995 and 1999, and received theSIGCOMM 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]
