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This page - May 2012
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Gary's
Barbeque
The San
Jose 7
Yokohama
Kamakura
The
Yokohama 4
Ottawa
Dublin
Ghent
La Rochelle
Porto
Around
Shilton
The Foss
Way - for non-UK readers - is a characteristically straight Roman road
extending from Lincoln to the church at Axmouth, Devon, passing
through Warwickshire. It is often spelt "Fosse
Way". The road is preserved as an A-class road for much of its length,
and its original route is clearly visible from road-maps of England.
There's more detail about the Foss Way at
-
Peter Robins' site
-
Leicester.co.uk
-
Rural Roads co uk
... and many more, including (of course)
-
Wikipedia
... I play a few instruments - guitar (electric,
acoustic),
Irish tenor banjo, 5-string banjo, mandolin, lap-steel, Irish bouzouki
(and sometimes bass). I play mainly in two traditional/folky/
rock-ceilidh bands - Five
Minutes To Midnight
and Alchemist
.
Just for fun, here's a version of two English folk tunes, The Rites of Man and Bear Dance. I had the Grease Band in mind at the time ...
Rites Of Man and Bear Dance (mp3)
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Cathiron, Warwickshire
- Lecturer,
research and consultant in Distributed Computing, Communications,
Digital Media Technology, Wireless LANs; lecturing (to undergraduate
and postgraduate level) in the School
Of Digital
Media Technology;
Faculty of Technology, Engineering, and the Environment, Birmingham
City University. (See
also Research
in the School of
Digital Media Technology)
- Also
a
visiting lecturer (in Telecommunications and Computer Networks) at EIGSI,
La Rochelle,
France; guest lecturer in triple play and media distribution services at Aston University
- Current
consultancy and research involvement includes interactive and personalised TV; media brokerage; applications of virtual
environments and worlds (in media, healthcare, environment, construction)
- Member
of
the Accreditation Committee for Northern
California University.
Areas of Expertise
- 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.
Biography
- Thirty
years' experience in the telecommunications industry
- Research
and development in intelligent networks, data communications protocols,
interactive services, media distribution, broadband access and services
development, defense communications contracts, network architectures
and infrastructures.
- Various collaborative
projects between industry and universities for UK government funding
and also for European framework funding. Research projects included
industry/academic collaborative projects on networked virtual reality
applications, intelligent agent-based e-commerce markets and adaptive
services, information services and infrastructures.
- Presented
papers and spoken at a number of highest level international
conferences and events and instrumental in a wide range of
international collaborative work programs.
Download:
Recent
Papers and Presentations
- Negotiation Platform for Personalised Advertising (L V de Sousa, B Malheiro, J D Foss); ECUMICT, Gent, Belgium, March 2012
- Dynamic Personalisation of Media Content (J D Foss, B Malheiro, J C Burguillo-Real); Semantic Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP), Vigo, Spain, December 2011
- Issues
for
Mixed Reality Multi-National Universities (J.D.Foss); Media
Education Summit, September
2010, Birmingham UK
- Object-Based
Media – Quantum Information ("A Head In The Cloud")
(J.D.Foss); article in publication “The New
Optimists: Scientists View Tomorrow's World & What It Means To
Us”, (ed K Cooper) for
the 2010 British Science Festival.
- A
Proposal For Media Brokerage (B.Malheiro, J.D.Foss); ECUMICT,
Gent, Belgium, March 2010
- Lessons
From Learning In Virtual Environments (J.D.Foss); British Journal of
Educational Technology (Wiley / Blackwell), Vol 40 No 3, p556-560; May
2009
A full list
of papers,
publications and presentations is
here
Memberships
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Some
websites that I
can recommend in the field of technology,
online media and communications
BBC News
also BBC
Technology
and BBC
Science and Nature
Broadcast Engineering journal
CNET
News.com
Comms and computing news from cnet.com
Light Reading
"Networkng the telecom industry"
Tech Republic, including Peter
Cochrane's blog
Slashdot
"News for nerds. Stuff that matters"
Wired
News
Wired magazine
Broadband
Home Central
"Sandy and Dave's report on the broadband home"
Broadband TV
News
"The business of Multiscreen Television"
Paid Content UK
"Covering UK's digital media economy"
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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