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Jean Bacon

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Email: jmb25@cl.cam.ac.uk

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Professor Jean Bacon

Emeritus Fellow
University Positions
Emeritus Professor
Subjects
Specialising in
Distributed Systems

Jean Bacon is Emeritus Professor of Distributed Systems.

Academic interests

Jean Bacon's academic interests include:

  • Distributed systems
  • Concurrency control
  • Access control
  • Information flow control
  • Software architecture and middleware for sensor-based applications such as transport, healthcare, and pollution monitoring.

Degrees obtained

  • BSc, London, Maths, 1963.
  • MSc, CNAA, Computer Science, 1972.
  • PhD, CNAA, Computer Science, 1982.
  • Honorary Doctorate, Open University 2014.

Biography

From the 1980s I have led the at the Department of Computer Science and Technology, with focus on the design and deployment of open, large scale, widely distributed systems.

I am an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and British Computer Society Fellow, and served on the governing body of the IEEE Computer Society from 2002 to 2007.

Other interests

Natural history, walking, art, painting.

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Publications, links and resources

See a list of Jean Bacon's publications on the .  

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