About the Consortium
The Speckled Computing consortium was formed by the four founder members of:
The founder members bring together world-class expertise in computer science, electronic engineering and physics by drawing on exceptionally strong research groupings according to the independent UK 2001 Research Assessment Excercise (RAE). The Electronic and Electrical Engineering Departments at the Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde and the School of Physics & Astronomy at University of St. Andrews are all grade 5-rated "internationally leading" departments. The Consortium will be co-ordinated by University of Edinburgh's which is the largest and highest-rated grouping of computer scientists in the UK, having achieved the unsurpassable 5*A in the 2001 RAE. The teams in the member Universities will be led by:
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D K Arvind - Director of the Speckled Computing Consortium and currently of the
Institute for Computing Systems Architecture at Edinburgh. Leads a group on micronet-based asynchronous programmable network architectures.
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Alan Miller - Professor of Physics & Vice Principal for Research at St. Andrews. Has pioneered research in photonics in the UK and USA over the past 30 years and is a Director of the .
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Ben Paechter - Professor in the School of Computing at Napier University leads the Centre for Emergent Computing which has expertise in the evolution of self organising systems and Speckled Computing applications.
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Bob Stewart - Professor in the EEE Dept. at the University of Strathclyde leads the group which has expertise in wireless communication at the physical layer.
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Iain Thayne - Professor in the EEE Dept. at Glasgow leads the group which has complete capability for the design and fabrication of mm-wave integrated circuits for radio communication for specks.
