The Foss Way - for
non-UK readers - is a characteristically
straight Roman road extending from
Lincoln to the church at Axmouth, Devon,
passing through my native Leicestershire
and 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.
Profile
Lecturer, research and consultant in Digital Systems,
Communications, Digital Media Technology,
Wireless LANs, Media Industry; lecturing (to
undergraduate and postgraduate level) at
the Technology
Innovation Centre, Birmingham City University.
Also a Visiting Professor (in Telecommunications and Computer Networks) at
EIGSI, La Rochelle, France.
Current consultancy and research involvement includes applications of virtual environments and worlds, including the 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.
Visionary
and innovative: Widely respected in the
industry; proven record for analysing,
assimilating and predicting technology
and market trends; consultancy, scenario
setting.
Highly
respected for research activities:
initiating and managing 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.
