about-me

About me

[ things | migration | future | degree | mugshot ]

Name	Frederick Barnes
Age	33
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/occam-pi, Java, UNIX, DOS, Assembler (x86,MIPS,RISC,Sparc,T800/T9000,AVR), 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), postgraduate certificate in higher education (PGCHE), Member of the Association for Computing Machinary (ACM), Member of the British Computer Society (BCS), Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA), Member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET)
E-Mail	F.R.M.Barnes@kent.ac.uk
Post-nominals (UK)	B.Sc. (hons), Ph.D., PGCHE, MBCS, FHEA, MIET

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
Lecture, research and related academic things
Help drive the UKC mountaineering club
Go bell-ringing here and there
Play piano/keyboard
Play with hardware (electronics)
Hack randomly
Usual everyday stuff (washing-up, beer consumption, pool, etc.)

Used to do these things too:

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
Comms-officer type for mountaineering (looking after webpage/mailing-list)

Migration plan

Started off in Lancashire (north).
Moved to Oxfordshire for about 6 years.
Moved to Canterbury to go to university (last N 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: 2011-05-14 19:31:53.000000000 +0100 by Fred Barnes.