home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- <head>
- <title>About the author</title>
- <body>
- <h1>About the Author</h1>
-
- In October 1994, I started my PhD at Southampton University in the
- Department of Electronics & Computer Science. I am researching
- distributed business process support systems, currently looking at the
- building of systems supporting mathematical process definitions, defined in
- languages such as CSP (Communicating Sequential Processes) defined by C.A.R.
- Hoare. I am based in the Mountbatten Building, named after Lord Louis
- Mountbatten, cousin of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II.
-
-
- <h3>First Degree</h3>
-
- I graduated in July 1994, also from Southampton University, with a First in
- Computer Systems Intergration. During my time as an undergraduate I took a
- year out with International Computers Limited (ICL), working in a research
- group for the Retail Systems division in Bracknell, in the UK. Immediately
- after my graduation, I started work on ArcWeb. It's first major public
- showing was at Acorn World 94 (although a small number of people had earlier
- versions) and it has been featured on the Comms page of Acorn User and on
- the BBC television program <a
- href="http://www.bbcnc.org.uk/bbctv/childrens/blue_peter/">Blue Peter</a>.
-
- <h3>Life Story</h3>
-
-
- To complete the life story, I attended St. Olave's Grammar School, which is
- in Orpington, Kent which I represented at both rugby and atheletics. Before
- that I was at Biggin Hill Junior School, and before that, at Biggin Hill
- Infant School.
-
-
- <h3>Biggin Hill</h3>
-
- As you probably gathered, my parental home is in Biggin Hill, which is most
- well-known for its rôle in the Second World War as a key airfield in
- the defence of London. Although the RAF recently moved its Officer Training
- School elsewhere, the airport still hosts an annual International Air Fair in
- May or June. If you have visited the Air Fair since 1983 and approached by
- car or coach from the Westerham direction, then you will have driven past my
- house, as our quiet little road can be opened up as an access road to the
- airport.
-
- <hr><address> Stewart Brodie, BSc (Hons)</address>
-