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Bob Briscoe
phone: +44 1473 645196 mobile: (by request) fax: +44 1473 640929 B54/77, Adastral Park Martlesham Heath Ipswich, IP5 3RE England ProfileDay job: Chief Researcher, Networks Research Centre, BT Until recently (but I haven't got round to revamping this page yet): Part-time PhD student, Networks Research Group, Department of Computer Science, University College London (UCL). Funded by BT. PhD supervisor: Dr. Stephen Hailes, UCL 2nd supervisor: Prof Mark Handley, UCL Ext supervisor: Prof Jon Crowcroft, U Cambridge Brief BiographyBob Briscoe is Chief Researcher in BT's Networks Research Centre and leads BT's Future Communications Architecture programme, using expertise in engineering, economic and social control of computing networks. In the late-1980s, he managed the transition to IP of many of BT's R&D networks and systems. In 2000, he set-up and led the Market Managed Multi-service Internet (M3I) consortium. He also helped incubate Qariba, an on-demand bandwidth start-up that BT re-absorbed to create its Internet QoS products. In 2003, he initiated the Communications Research Network (CRN) to remove blockages to the future health of the industry. He is heavily involved in re-defining the Internet architecture, particularly through IETF standardisation. Full BiographyBob Briscoe is Chief Researcher in BT's Networks Research Centre and leads research in BT's Future Communications Architecture programme. He joined BT in 1980 attaining a degree in engineering from the University of Cambridge in 1984, specialising in economics and industrial sociology. Through part-time study, in 2009 he attained a Computer Science PhD from UCL. The thesis concerned freedom with accountability on the Internet.In the late-1980s he managed the transition to IP of many of BT's R&D networks and systems. In the mid-1990s he represented BT on the HTTP working group of the IETF and in the ANSA distributed systems research consortium, which led to the creation of the OMG and CORBA. In 2000 he initiated and was technical director of the Market Managed Multi-service Internet (M3I) consortium, a successful European collaboration that solved the problem of controlling Internet quality using dynamic wholesale pricing, but with flat retail pricing. He also helped incubate Qariba, an on-demand bandwidth start-up that was ultimately re-absorbed into BT to form BT's new Internet access products. In 2003 he initiated the Communications Research Network (CRN), a collaborative initiative to remove technical, commercial and regulatory blockages to the future health of the communications industry. He also continues to be heavily involved in standardising research results, mainly through the IETF. His published research, standards contributions and patent filings are in the fields of Internet architecture, loosely coupled distributed systems, scalable network QoS, group security & charging solutions, managing fixed and wireless network loading using pricing, denial of service resistance, the economic structure of communications markets and lately slaying myths about network economics. Projects
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