Recent Talks
Invited and other talks
- Virtual Environments for Research in Archaeology (VERA), OeRC on 4th November 2008
- VERA, NCeSS Conference, Manchester, 18-20 June 2008
- The Grid: A wide area distributed system, Opponents Talk, KTH Stockholm, Sweden, May 26th 2008
- The Future of VREs, JISC Conference 2008: Enabling innovation, Birmingham, 15th April, 2008
- Introduction to the Portal Developers Workshop, University of Reading, Thursday 28th February 2008
- A Web 2.0 User Interface for Wide-area Resource Monitoring, 15th Mardi Gras Conference, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 30 January - 2 February 2008)
- Virtual Research Environment for Archaeology (VERA), VRE 2 Community Workshop, Univrsity of Reading, 29th November 2007
- The VERA Project, UK e-Science 2007 All Hands Meeting, Workshop 5: VREs: Where are we now?, Nottingham University, 10-13 September 2007
- Java for HPC, keynote, Latin American Conference Of High Performance Computing, Santa Marta, Colombia, August 13-18, 2007
- Invited Lectures, HPC workshop, Thailand, June 1-12, 2007
- Virtual Research Environment for Archaeology (VERA), VRE Community Event, Highgate House, Northampton, 21-22 June 2007
- Invited Lecture, Distributed Programming Abstractions, Models and Infrastructure, National e-Science Centre, 30 May - 1 June, 2007
- A Developer's Viewpoint, Invited Talk, CREE Workshop, Manchester Conference Centre, 24th May 2007
- Java-based Technologies to Support Parallel and Distributed Applications, invited lecture, University of A Coruna, 28 - 30 March 2007
-
Java-based Technologies to Support Parallel and Distributed Applications, Invited Seminar, Daresbury Laboratory, Wednesday 7th March 2007
- Thoughts on Monitoring and Agents, Invited contribution, Agents and Grids: towards the intelligent Grid, NeSC, Edinburgh, February 19/20 2007
- A Deep Look at Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) and WSRP4J, 2nd International Workshop on Grid Computing Environments (GCE06), Tampa, FL, USA, November 12th 2006
- Some Middleware Research and Development, Invited Seminar, Oak Ridge National Lab, TN, USA, 10th September 2006
- Parallel and Distributed Computing with Java, Keynote talk, ISPDC 2006, The 5th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Timisoara, Romania, July 6-9, 2006
- Sakai VRE Portal Demonstrator, JISC VRE meeting, Manchester, 13th July 2006
- Security Basics, Security and Confidentiality for the Social Sciences at Lancaster University, Wednesday 15th March 2006
- The Grid: The Past, Present, and Possible Future, invited keynote, Euro-American Conference on Telematics and Information Systems (EATIS2006), Santa Martha, Colombia (South America), February 7-10, 2006
- Technical Panel on the Strengths and Weaknesses of Grid Software, 1st NW-GRID Seminar, Darebury Laboratory, UK, 13th December 2005
- The Grid: UK Practice and Experience, invite keynote, The Israeli Association of Grid Technologies (IGT) Annual Conference 2005, Hertzelia Arts Center, Israel, 6th December 2005
- An Introduction to Portal Technologies and Tools, invited talk in the Portals and VREs for Social Research Workshop, 1st International Conference on e-Social Science, Manchester, UK, 22-24 June 2005
- The Grid: Experience and Practice, Invited Seminar,
Boole Centre for Research in Informatics, Cork, Ireland, Thursday 14th April 2005.
- The
OGSA Testbed: Views and Opinions from the Trenches, OGSA Testbed
Workshop, Experiences and Observations using the Emerging Grid
Infrastructure and Standards for e-Science, The Cavendish School of
Computing Science, The University of Westminster, 22nd and 23rd March
2005.
- Smoke and Mirror: Tales of the
Grid, Invited Seminar, School of Computing and the Logic Group in Pure Mathematics,
1a, 27-30 March, 2007
Leeds University, Wednesday 8th December 2005.
- Ubiquitous Resource Monitoring with
GridRM, The third UK e-Science Programme All Hands Meeting (AHM
2004) East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham, 31st August - 3rd
September 2004.
- jGMA: An Event-driven
Messaging Service Service Grids: Current Activity & Middleware
Requirements, e-Science Institute, Edinburgh, 22-23 July, 2004
- Tools for Monitoring the Grid,
Invited Lecture, The International Conference on Computational Science
and its Applications(ICCSA 2004), S. Maria degli Angeli, Assisi
(Perugia, Italy), May 14 - May 17, 2004.
- Grid Research and Development
, Invited Seminar, Computer Science Division of the School of
Informatics, University of Wales, Bangor, March 22nd 2004
- Grid
Technologies, Invited talk, National Tsing Hua University,
December 2003, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
- The Threat from Cyber
Terrorism and Cyber Crime, Invited talk, ESRC Workshop November
3-4 2003, Chilworth Manor, Southampton, UK.
- Jini and the Grid, Invited
tutorial, Euro-Par 2003, Klagenfurt, Austria, Tuesday, August 26,
2003
- Spiked Seminar, Grappling with
the Grid, IBM South Bank, London, Tuesday 11 February 2003.
- Data Management for High End, UKHEC Seminar, RAL, UK, 10 January 2003.
- Performance
Engineering, e-Science Grid Programme Engineering Workshop,
Edinburgh, 9 - 10 December 2002
- Internet Security, Invited
lecture, Dept. of Sociology, The University of Southampton, UK,
December 2002
- Middle East/North Africa (MENA) Summer School for young scientists
on parallel, distributed, mobile, and Internet computing theory,
methods, applications, and research directions, hosted by The Centre
for Advanced Mathematical Sciences American University of Beirut,
Lebanon, 8-19 July 2002
- Java Message Passing, SMPAG meeting, Institut
für Informatik, Technische Universität München, 24 May 2002
- Grid Research at the University
of Portsmouth, Grid Portals Workshop, National E-Science Centre, Edinburgh,
January 27 2002
- DSG Research, invited seminar, Westminster
University, January 21 2002
- Security and the Grid, Invited lecture, Dept.
of Sociology, The University of Southampton, UK, November 2001
- Jini Meets the Grid, invited seminar,
School of Computing, Information Systems and Mathematics, South Bank University,
29 October 2001
- Current and Emerging Cluster
Components, Keynote address at the 2nd Workshop on Linux
Clusters for Super Computing, National Supercomputer Centre,
Linkoping University, Sweden, 24th October 2001
- Jini Meets the Grid, 2nd Workshop on Linux
Clusters for Super Computing, National Supercomputer Centre,
Linkoping University, Sweden, 24th October 2001
- Jini meets the Grid, MSA workshop
of the International
Conference of Parallel Processing (ICPP-01), September 2001,
Valencia, Spain.
- Current and Emerging Trends in Cluster
Computing, invited seminar, Daresbury Laboratory, UK, January 9th
2001
- Security and the Grid, Invited
lecture, Dept. of Sociology, The University of Southampton, UK,
November 2000
- The IEEE CS Task Force on Cluster Computing (TFCC), The
2nd IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing,
Cluster 2000, Chemnitz, Germany, November 2000
- MPJ: A Reference Message-Passing System for Java, Seminar on Java for
High-End Computing, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh,
November 20th, 2000
- Jini Exposed: Can Jini provide an Infrastructure for Parallel
pplications? Workshop on Clusters and Computational Grids for
Scientific Computing, Lyon, September 24-27, 2000
- Current and Emerging Trends in Cluster Computing, NAG Annual
Seminar, Oxford University, September 21st, 2000
- Activities Overview, Lunchtime Seminar, Innovative Computing Laboratory, University
of Tennessee at Knoxville, TN, August 24th 2000
- Emerging and Future
Grids, Workshop on Grid Technologies, Brussels, 22 – 23
June 2000
- The MPI Parallel Environments for
Windows Clusters, Ptools Conference: Parallel Tools for Cluster
Computing, San Diego Supercomputer Center University of California,
San Diego, May 17-19, 2000
- Recent Trends in Cluster Computing and an
Overview of International GRID Projects, Invited Seminar, Physics Dept.,
University of Liverpool, 17 th May 2000
- Message Passing with Java and the
TFCC, Invited Seminar, Computer Science Dept., Cardiff
University, Cardiff, March 2000
- Cluster Computing: A COTS Solution
for Providing HPC Capabilities, Invited lecture, Institute of
Physics, Rutherford Conference Centre, London February 2000
- Metacomputing: The Approaching
Computing Revolution, Invited lecture, Dept. of Sociology, The
University of Southampton, UK, November 1999
- The Task Force on Cluster
Computing (TFCC) White Paper, SC99 TFCC BOF, Portland Oregon,
USA, November 1999
- Message Passing in Java and
the TFCC, Invited seminar, Computer Science Dept., Oxford-Brookes
University, Oxford, November 1999
- The IEEE Task Force on Cluster
Computing (TFCC), 2nd
Workshop on Personal Computer based on Networks of Workstations
(PC-NOW), Puerto Rico, USA, April 1999
- The IEEE Task Force on Cluster
Computing (TFCC), 4th International Workshop on High-Level
Parallel Programming Models and Supportive Environment (HIPS'99), Puerto Rico, USA, April 1999
- The NHSE - Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, Edinburgh, October 1998.
- MPI on NT: The Current Status and Performance of the Available
Environments, EuroPVM/MPI98 Workshop User Group Meeting, Liverpool,
September 1998.
- The Status of MPI on NT and mpiJava, Oak Ridge National
Laboratory, USA, July 1999
- MPI on NT, Parallel Applications Centre, Southampton, October 1997.
- EUROPORT Computer Centre Assessment Exercise, Europort meeting,
Brussels, Belgium, February 1995.
- High Performance Computing (HPC): Parallel Computing Comes of
Age!, IEE and IMechE Meeting, Salisbury, UK, February, 1995.