ROB'S HOMEPAGE

(A recent photograph of me)

A little bit about me

Trained as a physicist, I now head up the Software Development Group at EPCC at the University of Edinburgh. This covers both technology transfer for business and data management for the Grid.

If you haven't been there already, my staff bio contains some more background.

Net-related interests

• The home page of that Esteemed Organ Private Eye, the only paper that tells the truth!

• Perhaps more mainstream, TheGuardian newspaper, plus for a bit of balance the Financial Times.

• The UK's parallel computing archive at HENSA.

• Here's a list of Physics Servers and Services Around the World.

• And on a serious, non-political note, here's the Amnesty International homepage.

• Finally, here're some bits of Java for entertainment's sake: the classic Game of Life, the Ising spin model and the XY-model.

  Or, if you remember the days of solo roleplaying with Metagaming's The Fantasy Trip (or if you're a present-day GURPS player), take a look at my HexMap program.