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Who I am, my professional and technical interests, some personal stuff.

Professional and Technical Interests

• Current professional position:
• Professor of Telecommunications Engineering and Director of the Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures at Swinburne University of Technology (Melbourne, Australia). Find out more about that role here.
• I've had a particular interest in exploring the characteristics of next generation applications (such as real-time interactive games) and pondering their implications for IP access and backbone network architectures
• Technical publications
  
• Personal/past technical interests and projects:
• My first computer (the Sinclair ZX81, 1982)
• My second computer (the BBC Model B Microcomputer, 1984)
• Releasing server-side mod(s) and post-analysis tool(s) for gathering Quake III Arena usage statistics (2001/2002) and analysing the Quake III Arena server usage patterns (in 2001)
• Jotting down my thoughts and experiments
• Re-vitalizing old (and new) PCs with FreeBSD
• Some previous work history
• Selected pre-Swinburne public public talks/presentations
• Books I've written

Some personal stuff

• Books I've been reading
• An incomplete photo collection of friends and travels
• Cars I've enjoyed...
• I started in Melbourne (Australia), lived in New Jersey for a few years, moved to California (the Silicon Valley area, to be exact), and I'm now back in Melbourne. NJ is cold, Silicon Valley was stupidly expensive, and Melbourne is a long way from anywhere in the northern hemisphere. But I've liked something about each place I've been....
• I drink hot tea, I don't drink coffee. In the US I think Sam Adams is beer, and Budweiser is... not. Give me Guinness anytime I need a meal.