about-me

About me

[ things | migration | future | degree | mugshot ]

Name	Frederick Barnes
Age	30
Occupation	Lecturer/researcher in computer science (parallel computing)
Eyes	Two
Interests	Computers, specifically parallel computing (occam/CSP/transputers/SMP/distributed), operating-systems and programming; Free Software and GNU; others, cars + bikes (got an A-stamp on the (clean) license)
Skills	Linux, C/C++, occam, Java, UNIX, DOS, Assembler (x86,mips,T800/T9000), Delphi, Windows, X11 (Xlib/Intrinsics), others
Qualifications/Things	Ph.D. in computer science, B.Sc (hons) in computer science (1st), Usual GCSEs and A-Levels, licensed radio amateur (M1FRB)
E-Mail	fred@frmb.org

This page is basically a load of waffle about myself, and what I like doing, don't like doing, etc... (a very unprofessional CV almost). If you want my CV, mail me and I'll send you a postscript copy.

Things I do
(all integrated into my inherently complex time-management system and in no particular order)

Spend too much time in front of the computer
Comms-officer type for mountaineering (looking after webpage/mailing-list)
Go bell-ringing here and there
Play piano/keyboard
Play with hardware (electronics)
Hack randomly
Usual everyday stuff (washing-up, beer consumption, etc.)
Lecture, research and related academic things

Used to do these things too:

Help drive the UKC mountaineering club
Random IT supply-teacher for Canterbury College (HE/FE)
Kent county-council approved mini-bus driver (now expired)
Work part-time at CERN in Switzerland
Help administrate servers/clients for the Maths + Stats department

Migration plan

Started off in Lancashire (north).
Moved to Oxfordshire for about 6 years.
Moved to Canterbury to go to university (last 5 years).
Plan to move into a small block of cheese called Mr. Iccle-Cheeses.

Degree stuff

Ph.D. thesis title is ``Dynamics and Pragmatics for High Performance Concurrency''. You can download this from the publications page.

Incase you want to employ me at some point ;-) here's the stuff I did in my final year: "theory of prgramming", "search, optimisation and constraints" (prolog basically), "types and computation" (lambda calci and type theory), "embedded systems", "computer graphics and visulisation", "distributed systems", and wgbuilder for our final-year project.

Future intentions

Do much fun and good research!
Get a Shelby Cobra and a Suzuki GSX-400 RM
Go to a beach and build a whopping sand-castle
I'll figure the rest out later...

Mugshot

That's a fairly realistic image (from a webcam experiment) stortrooper piccy another mugshot. Context here and here. me climbing in the Lake District (Bowderstone Crag, Woden's Crack Variant)
(and botching it due to lack of suitable hexes/cams ;-)).

Um, well, that pretty unrealistic now; I did the hair cut thing ;-).

Last modified: 2007-12-10 08:14:27.000000000 +0000 by Fred Barnes.