Professor Paddy Nixon

Professor Paddy Nixon holds a B.Sc., M.A. and Ph.D. in Computer Science, is a chartered engineer and a member of the BCS, ACM and IEEE. He leads the new established Systems Research Institute at University College Dublin supported by a 2.5 million Euro Science Foundation Ireland endowment. Previously he led the Global and Pervasive Computing Group at Strathclyde University and was research Director of the Kelvin Institute. His research interests lie in the areas of Pervasive Computing and with specific emphasis on infrastructure aspects of Distributed Computing, Component Software Engineering, Resource Discovery, Context Adaptive Systems and Mobile Code systems. Prof. Nixon leads funded projects in reconfigurable systems, mobile software components, component selling, and real-time middleware for mobile systems. This work has been funded by Enterprise Ireland, The EU fourth/fifth/sixth framework, EPSRC and industry. Of particular interest to this project is his work as a lead partner in the Global Computing Initiative project SECURE on Trust infrastructure for roaming entities, and his involvement as Vice Chair and institutional host for the Disappearing Computer Network (https://www.disappearing-computer.net). Prof. Nixon is guest editor for special issues of Communications of the ACM, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing Journal, the Journal of Ubiquitous, Mobile and Pervasive Computing, IEEE Internet Computing, the Software Quality Journal and The Computer Journal. He will be general conference co-chair for ECOOP 2005, and has chaired 6 conferences and 3 workshops in the areas of distributed systems. Prof. Nixon has edited 6 books and over 100 refereed publications in the areas of pervasive computing, distributed systems, software engineering, parallel processing, and object orientation.