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Bob Briscoe
full name 
Robert John Briscoe
date of birth
5th March 1962
nationality 
British 
languages
native English, passable French & usable German
health 
excellent 
family 
happily married, 3 sons all left home
driving licence 
full, clean

 
e-mail
bob.briscoe,bt.com
home page
http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/B.Briscoe/
home address
Home Farm, Parham, Woodbridge 
Suffolk, IP13 9NW, England
tel (day)
+44 (0)1473 645196 
tel (mobile)
+44 (0)7718 902848
Skills & Knowledge
Big picture and details | Disruptive technical & commercial innovation | perverse but practical design leaps | identify tough but solvable commercial challenges | strong leadership | voracious reader | excellent memory | question from first principles | enjoy teaching and self-teaching | conscientious & persistent | original, familiar communication | sound management (delegated in recent years) Global internetwork, systems & middleware architecture & design | network economics | industrial organisation (enabling viable new market structures) | traffic control & quality of service | Internet protocol design | security protocol design | secure & available system design | algorithm design | naming and addressing | network management | commerce platforms | business processes (including multi-cultural) | distributed computing | multi-vendor networks and systems interoperation.
Awards & Publications
Publicity & Reputation: 45 invited talks in international fora over the last 5 years, including 11 keynotes and 4 expert panels. Frequent requests for book or article reviews for publications such as Wiley books, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, ACM SIGCOMM, ACM Computer Comms Review, etc.
Awards: BT's Gordon Radley Award for Best Author of Innovation (2007) & (2008); BT's Sir Alan Rudge Award for Innovation (Medal winner 2001) & (Certificate of Commendation: 2000); The Conference of Professors and Heads of Computing & British Computer Society Distinguished Dissertation Award (nominated 2009 - judging in progress).
Publications over research career since 1996: 14 patents granted and 17 pending; 9 peer-reviewed articles in journals such as ACM Computer Communications Review; 3 book chapters; 7 papers in international conferences including ACM SIGCOMM, ACM E-Commerce, Personal Indoor & Mobile Radio Comms; 2 groundbreaking articles in IEEE Spectrum magazine; 4 IETF RFCs (1 standards track); 6 IETF drafts in process (3 standards track) plus 9 proposed Internet drafts being maintained; 13 workshop papers; and numerous other published reports and contributions. Publications of particular note:
  • A Fairer, Faster Internet Protocol, Bob Briscoe (BT), IEEE Spectrum, Dec 2008 pp38-43
  • Flow Rate Fairness: Dismantling a Religion, Bob Briscoe (BT & UCL), ACM CCR 37(2) 63--74 (Apr 2007)
  • Metcalfe's Law is Wrong, Bob Briscoe (BT) and Andrew Odlyzko (Uni Minnesota) and Benjamin Tilly (Rent.com), IEEE Spectrum, Jul 2006 pp26-31
  • Policing Congestion Response in an Internetwork using Re-feedback, Bob Briscoe (BT & UCL), Arnaud Jacquet (BT), Carla Di Cairano-Gilfedder (BT), Alessandro Salvatori (Eurécom & BT), Andrea Soppera (BT) and Martin Koyabe (BT) in Proc. ACM SIGCOMM'05, Computer Communications Review 35(4) (Sep 2005)
Career
May 2004 - present
BT Group CTO, 
Chief Researcher

Jan 2003 - Apr 2004
BTexact Technologies; Research
Chief Researcher

Networks Research Centre

Apr'08-...: Global Information Infrastructure Commission. Matt Bross, BT CTO initiated GIIC process for the CxOs of the world's ICT corporations to decide whether to champion our proposed change to the Internet Protocol.
Nov'08-...: Initated and lead Internet Research Task Force's Capacity Sharing Architecture design team.
Jan'08-Dec'10: Trilogy. BT initiated and led consortium to re-architect the Internet.
Jan'08-...: MIT Communications Futures Programme Interconnection w-g; Co-chair.
Jun'06-...: IETF pre-congestion notification (PCN) w-g: Initated and continue to lead.
Jun'03-'06: Comms Research Network (CRN): Initiated and led this MIT-Cambridge Uni industry collaboration.
Jan'03-...: BT's Future Comms Architecture (FCA) strategic research programme: Initated and lead, focusing particularly on network economics & security.
Dec 2001 - Dec 2003
BTexact Technologies, Research
Lab Manager

Dec 2000 - Oct 2001
BT ExaCT, Research
Singleton Technical Group Leader

Jan 1998 - Nov 2000
BT ACT Research
Professional Technical grade

The Edge Lab

Mar '00 - '03: Qariba. Joint venture between BT and Scientific Generics incubating a start-up to market and develop price-based bandwidth management products. BT folded Qariba's products into the 21st Century Network IP quality of service product lines.
Jan '00 - Mar '02: Technical Director, M3I. Initiated and led consortium developing and validating a "Market Managed Multi-service Internet" (M3I) <www.m3iproject.org>.
'97-'03: Internet quality-based charging. Fundamental research and advisor both for BT Group Technical Strategy and BTUK Pricing Strategy.
'97-'03: Internet large-scale multicast applications research. Multicast security and channel management protocols, including invention of IETF's multicast streaming authentication protocol and the basis of the successful Venation start-up in 2000.
Dec 1994 - Jan 1998
BT Research, Information Systems 
Senior Professional grade

Distributed Systems

'95-'99 BT's representative to ANSA international distributed systems research consortium (including brief secondment).
'95-'97: Web and e-commerce infrastructure research. BT's IETF HTTP working group rep. Integration of Web, Java, Microsoft and Object Management Group Object Models. Advisor to BT Group Technical Strategy. 
'95-'97: Technology and company evaluations co-ordination. Particularly Cisco & TIBCO reliable multicast platforms, Open Market Integrated Commerce Solution, Netscape Integrated Applications suite. 
Apr 1988 - Dec 1994
BT Dev't, Technical Services 
Senior Professional grade		 Apr 1992 - Dec 1994 Deputy Unit Manager (concurrent)
The unit offered technical services for BT's R&D activities employing over 100 staff.

Technical Computing Support Mgr (concurrent)
Jul '91-Dec'94: CAE system manager across BT Dev't, E. Anglia (c.120 Unix workstations + 100s of Macs & PCs). Migrated mix of proprietary systems & networks to open, integrated IP-based multi-vendor system with partitioned security.
Apr '88-Jun'91: Admin of section's computing and networking (c.100 nodes).

Design Office Manager (concurrent)
Apr '91-Dec'94: Manager of engineering design office (dozen staff)
Apr '88-Mar'91: Led small electronic product design & dev't team.
Jul 1984 - Apr 1988
BT Tech Exec, Design Svcs; Professional grade

Special Project Design Engineer

Jul'84-Apr'88: Mechanical, Electronic & Optical design projects.
Apr'87-Mar'88: Part-time CAD system manager.
Further Education
Jun 2009
University College London, PhD (Computer Science)
Jun 1984 & Feb 1988
Uni Cambridge Bachelor of Arts & Master of Arts (Engineering)
Sep 1980 - Jun 1984
BT Student (broad introduction to comms business, technology & theory plus degree sponsorship)
Personal Interests
* Active youth group (Woodcraft Folk) leader * Manage our family farm (arable) & keep farmyard stock
* Active Morris dancer * Secretary/trustee of Natural Energy Education Charity
* Active Historical Reenactor (C15-16)
Referees
Jun
'09		 Ivan Boyd 
Head of Research Operations,  
pp RT4M Rm 1, Pegasus Tower, Adastral Park, Martlesham Heath, Ipswich, IP5 3RE, England 
e-mail: ivan.boyd,bt.com
Tel +44 (0)1473 646733		 Jon Crowcroft
Marconi Professor of Communications Systems
University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory
William Gates Building, J J Thomson Avenue
Cambridge, CB3 0FD, England
e-mail: Jon.Crowcroft,cl.cam.ac.uk
Tel +44 (0)1223 763633