Jonathan Andrew Crowcroft (born 23 November 1957) is the Marconi Professor of Communications Systems in the Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge and the chair of the programme committee at the

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Education

Crowcroft was educated at

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and graduated with a

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degree in

physics Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge which rel ...

in 1979 from the

University of Cambridge , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

where he was an undergraduate student of

Trinity College, Cambridge Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, with the largest financial endowment of any college at either Cambridge or Oxford. ...

. He then gained a

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degree in

computing Computing is any goal-oriented activity requiring, benefiting from, or creating computing machinery. It includes the study and experimentation of algorithmic processes, and development of both hardware and software. Computing has scientific, ...

in 1981 and

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in 1993, both from

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Career and research

Crowcroft joined the University of Cambridge in 2001, prior to which he was Professor of Networked Systems at

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in the Computer Science Department. After he stepped down from UCL, he was succeeded by his former PhD student

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. he is a

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Wolfson College, Cambridge Wolfson College () is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. The majority of students at the college are postgraduates. The college also admits "mature" undergraduates (aged 21 and above), with around ...

. 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

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. Crowcroft has written, edited and co-authored a books and publications which have been adopted internationally in academic courses, including ''TCP/IP & Linux Protocol Implementation: Systems Code for the Linux Internet'', ''Internetworking Multimedia'' and Open Distributed Systems. Crowcroft has also done research in theoretical

network science Network science is an academic field which studies complex networks such as telecommunication networks, computer networks, biological networks, cognitive and semantic networks, and social networks, considering distinct elements or actors repr ...

, particularly in the area of Turing switches, and he has suggested to replace general-purpose computers acting as

network switch A network switch (also called switching hub, bridging hub, and, by the IEEE, MAC bridge) is networking hardware that connects devices on a computer network by using packet switching to receive and forward data to the destination device. A netw ...

es with specially-built hardware dedicated to

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, as well as using optical technology for the same purpose.

Awards and honours

Crowcroft was elected a

Fellow of the Royal Society Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the judges of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematic ...

in 2013. His nomination reads: He was elected an

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in 2003, a chartered fellow of the

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, a Fellow of the

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and a

of the

Royal Academy of Engineering The Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) is the United Kingdom's national academy of engineering. The Academy was founded in June 1976 as the Fellowship of Engineering with support from Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who became the first senior ...

, as well as a Fellow of the

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(IEEE) in 2004. He was a member of the

Internet Architecture Board The Internet Architecture Board (IAB) is "a committee of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and an advisory body of the Internet Society (ISOC). Its responsibilities include architectural oversight of IETF activities, Internet Standards ...

1996-2002, and attended most of the first 50

Internet Engineering Task Force The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is a standards organization for the Internet and is responsible for the technical standards that make up the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP). It has no formal membership roster or requirements and ...

(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

{{DEFAULTSORT:Crowcroft, Jon British computer scientists Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery Fellows of Wolfson College, Cambridge 1957 births Living people People educated at Westminster School, London Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Alumni of University College London Fellows of the Royal Society