Jon Crowcroft

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::summary British computer scientist (born 1957) ::

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Field	Value
image	Jon Crowcroft.jpg
caption	Crowcroft in 2009
prizes	ACM Fellow (2002)
SIGCOMM Award (2009)
honorific_suffix
name	Jon Crowcroft
birth_name	Jonathan Andrew Crowcroft
birth_date
birth_place	England
nationality	British (English)
field	Computer Networks
Distributed systems
Quality of service
work_institutions	University of Cambridge
University College London
education	Westminster School
alma_mater	University of Cambridge (BA)
University College London (MSc, PhD)
doctoral_advisor	Peter T. Kirstein
doctoral_students	Mark Handley{{cite thesis
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oclc	557338156}}
Pan Hui<ref name	"hui_phd"
thesis_title	Lightweight protocols for distributed systems
thesis_year	1993
thesis_url	https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10102875/
website
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Pan Hui

| thesis_title = Lightweight protocols for distributed systems | thesis_year = 1993 | thesis_url = https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10102875/ | website =

Education

Crowcroft's father was the psychiatrist Andrew Crowcroft and his mother the concert pianist Kyla Greenbaum. He was educated at Westminster School and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in physics in 1979 from the University of Cambridge where he was an undergraduate student of Trinity College. He then gained a Master of Science degree in computing in 1981 and PhD in 1993, both from University College London.

Career and research

Crowcroft joined the University of Cambridge in 2001, prior to which he was Professor of Networked Systems at University College London in the Computer Science Department. After he stepped down from UCL, he was succeeded by his former PhD student Mark Handley. he is a Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge.

Crowcroft contributed to successful start-up projects. He has been a member of the Scientific Council of IMDEA Networks Institute since 2007. He served on the advisory board of Max Planck Institute for Software Systems .

Crowcroft has written, edited and co-authored books and publications Internetworking Multimedia and Open Distributed Systems.

Crowcroft has also done research in theoretical network science, particularly in the area of Turing switches, and he has suggested to replace general-purpose computers acting as network switches with specially-built hardware dedicated to packet switching, as well as using optical technology for the same purpose.

He is a director of the Matrix Foundation.

Awards and honours

Crowcroft was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2013. His nomination reads:

He was elected an ACM Fellow in 2003, a chartered fellow of the British Computer Society, a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers and a Fellow as well as a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2004. He was a member of the Internet Architecture Board 1996-2002, and attended most of the first 50 Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) meetings.

Crowcroft served as general chair for the ACM SIGCOMM conference between 1995 and 1999, and received the SIGCOMM Award in 2009. The award to Crowcroft was

References

References

1. Anon. (2017). "Crowcroft, Prof. Jonathan Andrew".
2. (1996). "Quality-of-service routing for supporting multimedia applications". IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications.
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4. Hui, Pan. (2008). "People are the network: experimental design and evaluation of social-based forwarding algorithms".
5. "Phd Family Tree of Jon's".
6. "Jon Crowcroft's calendar".
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9. (22 March 2002). "Obituary: Andrew Crowcroft". [[The Guardian]].
10. {{Official URL
11. Crowcroft, Jonathan Andrew. (1993). "Lightweight protocols for distributed systems". University of London.
12. (2002). "TCP/IP and Linux protocol implementation: systems code for the Linux Internet". Wiley.
13. (1999). "Internetworking multimedia". Taylor & Francis.
14. Crowcroft, Jon. (1995). "Open distributed systems". Artech House.
15. Jon Crowcroft [http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-556.pdf Turing Switches. Turing machines for all-optical Internet routing] UCAM-CL-TR-556 ISSN 1476-2986 January 2003
16. "About Matrix".
17. Anon. (2013). "Professor Jon Crowcroft FRS". [[Royal Society]].
18. "ACM Fellows". Association for Computing Machinery.
19. "Register of Chartered IT Professionals". British Computer Society.
20. "Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering". Royal Academy of Engineering.
21. "IEEE Fellow Class of 2004". IEEE.
22. "History {{!}} Internet Architecture Board".
23. "SIGCOMM Award Recipients". ACM SIGCOMM.

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