Bob Briscoe

Bob Briscoe joined BT in 1980 with a degree in engineering from Cambridge. He now directs the research programme of BT's Networks Research Centre and leads BT's Future Communications Architecture programme. In the late-1980s he managed the transition to IP of many of BT's R&D networks and systems. In the mid-1990s he represented BT on the HTTP working group of the IETF and in the ANSA distributed systems research consortium, which led to the creation of the OMG and CORBA. In 2000 he initiated and was technical director of the Market Managed Multi-service Internet (M3I) consortium, a successful European collaboration that solved the problem of controlling Internet quality using dynamic wholesale pricing, but with flat retail pricing. He also helped incubate Qariba, an on-demand bandwidth start-up that was ultimately re-absorbed into BT to form major new Internet access products. In 2003 he initiated the Communications Research Network (CRN), a collaborative initiative to remove technical, commercial and regulatory blockages to the future health of the communications industry.

His published research, standards contributions and patent filings are in the fields of Internet architecture, loosely coupled distributed systems, scalable network QoS^?, group security & charging solutions, managing fixed and wireless network loading using pricing and on the structure of communications markets. He is studying part-time for a PhD^? at University College London.

Projects

Communications Research Network (CRN) & Communications Futures Programme (CFP) [2003-] BT's Future Communications Architecture Programme [2002-] Future Wireless Network Architectures [2002-]

Recent past projects

Market Managed Multi-service Internet (M3I) [2000-2002] Multicast multimedia middleware (mWare) [1997-2000]

Collaborations

Networks Research Group, UCL Computer Lab, Cambridge Judge Institute of Management, Cambridge ICSI Center for Internet Research (ICIR), Berkeley CS & School of Information Management Science (SIMS), UC Berkeley Advanced Network Architecture Group, CSAIL, MIT NetLab^?, ICS FORTH, Heraklion, Crete and others...