Ph.D. Andrew HERBERT Distinguished Engineer, Managing Director Microsoft Research, Cambridge
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| Herbert s research interests include networks, operating systems, programming languages and distributed information sharing. | |
| Before joining Microsoft Research in 2001, he was director of Advanced Technology at Citrix Systems Inc., where he was instrumental in steering the company toward Internet thin-client technologies and initiating development of products for Web-based application deployment and for the emerging application service provider market. | |
| Herbert joined Citrix in 1998 from Digitivity Inc., which he founded in 1996 to develop a product to enable secure deployment of Java clients for business-to-business applications. Digitivity was a spinoff from APM Ltd., a research and consulting company Herbert founded in 1985. APM managed ANSA, an industry-sponsored program of research and advanced development into the use of distributed systems technology to support applications integration in enterprisewide systems. ANSA s work included research on support for interactive multimedia services, object technology for World Wide Web applications, distributed systems management, mobile object systems and security for electronic commerce. Herbert led ANSA s technical program, built up its team, created its architecture, and made ANSA known and respected in the industry. ANSA-based technology was used by many organizations ahead of the widespread availability of commercial CORBA-based products. Notable successes included the NASA Astrophysics Data System, a European radio pager system and the online customer service system for a major U.K. utility. As part of his ANSA work, Herbert played an active role in many standards and consortia for distributed computing including the Telecommunications Information Networking Architecture Consortium (TINA-C), ISO/ITU ODP, the Open Software Foundation Distributed Computing Environment (OSF DCE) and Object Management Group (OMG) CORBA. |
Mitgliedschaften
| Fellow of Wolfson College Cambridge | |
| Member of St John's College Cambridge | |
| Liveryman of the City of London Worshipful Company of Information Technologists |
Publikationen
| assisted Needham and Wilkes editing "The Cambridge CAP Computer and Its Operating System", 1979 | |
| co-authored with Needham "The Cambridge Distributed Computing System", 1982 | |
| co-edited a monograph of papers written in tribute to Needham "Computer Systems: Theory, Technology and Applications" with Karen Spärck Jones, 2003 |
Auszeichnungen
| B.Sc. in computational science from University of Leeds | |
| Ph.D. in computer science from Cambridge University |
