Phil Adcock
PhD in Mobile Distributed Multimedia Systems Technical Director of Domicilium (IOM) Ltd
Phil is a Technical Director of an IT company “Domicilium (IOM) Ltd” based in the Isle of Man, now a multinational. Phil is an active participant in the domain name industry and was responsible for founding the IM Registry that handles registrations for the .im country code top level domain (ccTLD) which represents the Isle of Man on the Internet. He is now a Chartered Fellow of the British Computing Society.
“I found the experience of taking a PhD at Lancaster extremely challenging and rewarding. Some of these experiences included; working at the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA, as a visiting researcher; presenting part of my work at the “International DCE Workshop” in Karlsruhe, Germany; having the opportunity to teach at undergraduate and postgraduate level; and of course getting my PhD. These experiences helped to broaden my horizons considerably.”
“It is no understatement to say that my time at Lancaster has contributed significantly to the success of my career and my company. Every memory that I have of Lancaster is extremely positive and I would recommend a postgraduate degree at Lancaster to anyone.”
Americo Sampaio PhD in Computing
Nationality: Brazilian Now at: SAP Belfast
“Lancaster is an excellent research environment with world class research in many areas of Computer Science. During my PhD I was able to develop a lot of important skills such as analytical and critical thinking as well as the necessary skills to produce high quality research ideas and scientific papers, implementing these ideas in practice and evaluating the results. Moreover, I was able to meet many well-known experts in my research field as well as attend international conferences to present my PhD work. The maturity and skills gained during my PhD are really important for my current job as a researcher in SAP Research, where I constantly face challenging research tasks and apply cutting edge technologies to solve real world problems.”
“Lancaster is not only an exciting place to study and learn but also a very friendly and fun environment where people are always willing to help you and give interesting feedback on your research.”
Lancaster is a leading international player in networked and distributed systems. In networking, our emphasis is on ‘Future Internet’: coping with next generation challenges of content distribution, high performance routing, quality-of- experience, novel P2P/overlay networks, router virtualisation, high performance multi-core architectures, resilience to attack and energy-efficiency (Hutchison, Mathy, Pink, Edwards), wireless broadband communications (Markarian), wireless mesh networks (Race), Mobility and IP protocol innovation (Pink,Scott). We have over 20 years experience of designing novel distributed systems and middleware for a range of purposes including sensor networking (Roedig, Finney), grid computing, cloud computing (Blair, Coulson) and high-performance dependable systems (Taïani). Our pioneering work in
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multimedia networking includes work on efficient video distribution, scalable coding, content caching and delivery (Race), content management systems, Quality of Experience (QoE) (Mauthe). We apply our protocols and platforms to real-world problems, including environmental monitoring and supporting emergency response (e.g. the mountain rescue).
Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing Dr K Cheverst, Prof N Davies, Dr J Finney, Dr A Friday, Prof H Gellersen, Prof I Marshall, Dr M Hazas, Dr G Kortuem, Dr P Coulton
At Lancaster, we have been among the pioneering groups in both mobile computing and ubiquitous computing. Our approach is uniquely experimental; prototypes are deployed with real end-users to gain grounded insight into systems and human factors issues, as exemplified by our work in
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