 
Profile
- Lecturer, research and consultant in Distributed Computing,
Communications, Digital Media Technology,
Wireless LANs; lecturing (to
undergraduate and postgraduate level) at
the Technology
Innovation Centre, Birmingham City University.
Also a visiting lecturer (in Telecommunications and Computer Networks) at
EIGSI, La Rochelle, France; guest lecturer in broadband triple play services at Aston University; a member of the Accreditation Committee for Northern California University.
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Current consultancy and research involvement includes applications of virtual environments and worlds, including the recent project "LiVE" - Learning in Virtual Environments - a collaboration with industry and the public services
sector.
- Extensive
knowledge and experience in engineering
and marketing in the telecommunications
and adjacent sectors with 29 years
experience (at Marconi, formerly GEC /
GPT) in system architecture and
development; solution architecture and
adjacent disciplines. Recent consultative
work in next generation services.
- Key
strategic input in evolving next
generation markets, technologies and
services: Experience in services markets:
commercial services markets (including
media); government and local authority
services.
- Respected, proven record for analysing, assimilating and predicting technology and market trends; consultancy, scenario setting.
- Initiating and managing research projects; producing white papers and presentations; an experienced conference/event speaker nationally and internationally.
Areas of Involvement
- Media / Telecommunications
networks and markets: Media Distribution
Network Architectures, strategies and
solutions; Broadband Triple Play
(Multiplay), xDSL, Cable, IPTV, VOD,
Middleware, End-User Equipment and
Networks, P2P; WiFi; VoIP.
- Service and applications
technologies and markets: Service
integration, platforms and brokerage. Automated
enterprises; service and content
brokerage; intelligent agent technology;
networked virtual collaborative
environments; Market evolution: value
models, rights and content management,
regulatory issues. Information
infrastructures: community networks and
educational services; societal issues.
Papers, Publications and Presentations
- Information Trading In
Distributed Virtual Environments
(J.D.Foss, E.Ackroyd, B.C.M.Atkin); IEE
colloquium "Using Virtual Worlds
", London, May 1993.
- The Global Information
Trading Environment (J.D.Foss, E.Ackroyd,
B.C.M.Atkin); ISSLS'93, Vancouver, BC,
Canada, September 1993
- Information Services and
Group Activities in a National
Information Infrastructure (J.D.Foss);
Fifth IEE conference on
Telecommunications (ICT'95), Brighton,
UK, March 1995.
- Agents In Information
Brokering Services (J.D.Foss); UNICOM
seminar, "Business Applications of
Intelligent Agents", London, UK,
November 1995.
- Brokering the
Info-Underworld (J.D.Foss); UNICOM
seminar, "Real World Applications of
Intelligent Agents", Heathrow, UK,
June 1996
- Brokering the
Info-Underworld; chapter in book
"Agent Technology" - eds
(N.Jennings & M.Wooldridge),
Springer, 1998.
- Brokers and Intermediaries
in the Info-Underworld (J.D.Foss);
ISS'97, Toronto, ON, Canada, September
1997.
- Brokers and Intermediaries
in the Info-Underworld (2) (J.D.Foss);
Colloquium on Information Overload, IEE,
London, December 1997.
- Intermediation
and Information Brokerage
(J.D.Foss), ISSLS'98, Venice, Italy,
March 1998.
- Brokering the
Info-Underworld (J.D.Foss); FITCE UK
(Federation of Telecommunications
Engineers of the European
Community); London, August 1998.
- Brokering the
Info-Underworld (2); chapter in BT
Engineering Journal, Summer 1998.
- Information Brokerage for
Online Automated Enterprises (J.D.Foss);
Computing and Control Engineering Journal
(vol 10, no.1); (IEE); February 1999
- Brokering
Automated Enterprises
(J.D.Foss); INET'99, San Jose,
California, USA; June 1999.
- Brokerage
In An Information Economy
(J.D.Foss, Kulwinder Garcha, Phil Turner,
Nick Jennings); INET2000, Yokohama,
Japan; July 2000.
- Service Brokerage, Dynamic
Virtual ASP's and the Info-Climate
(J.D.Foss); Networks2000, Toronto,
September 2000.
- From Triple Play To The
Global Jukebox (J.D.Foss); invited
presentation to BBC Technology Forum,
July 2004
- Beyond MultiPlay
(J.D.Foss); invited presentation to BBC
Technology Forum, February 2005
- Dynamic Intelligent
Intermediation (J.D.Foss); invited
presentation to BBC Technology Forum,
December 2005
- LiVE - Learning in Virtual Environments (J.D.Foss); ECUMICT, Gent, Belgium, March 2008
- Lessons From Learning In Virtual Environments (J.D.Foss); British Journal of Educational Technology (Wiley / Blackwell), Vol 40 No 3, p556-560; May 2009
I have also supplied quotes and input for a
number of other publications.
Memberships
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Some regular haunts of mine that I can recommend in the field of technology, online media, communications, etc. ...
BBC News
also BBC Technology
and BBC Science and Nature
CNET News.com
Comms and computing news from cnet.com
Light Reading
"Networkng the telecom industry"
Silicon.com
"Driving business through technology"
including
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense
Slashdot
"News for nerds. Stuff that matters"
Wired News
Wired magazine
Broadband Home Central
"Sandy and Dave's report on the broadband home"
Media Guardian
Media news from The Guardian
The Register
"Biting the hand that feeds IT"
The IET
The Institution of Engineering and Technology
ISOC
The Internet Society
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