Work
The primary focus of my work was on the H2O project. This page details the rest.
Presentations
December 2010 Current Trends in Distributed Database Systems. An overview of some new, innovative database systems.
June 2010. SICSA Conference Presentation. Details the motivations and architecture behind H2O.
June 2009. SICSA DBHarvester Talk. Another talk on the DBHarvester project, its aims and objectives. This talk looks at the pressures system in more detail.
June 2009. The H2 Database System. An overview of the H2 database system, looking particuarly at how it is implemented.
January 2009. DBHarvester Talk. A talk introducing the DBHarvester project, its aims and objectives.
February 2008. Enterprise Java Beans Tutorial. An overview of the JavaBeans 3.0 specification; what it is,
interesting features, and why it is useful. The talk itself was interspersed with examples adapted from the O’Reilly EJB book.
January 2008. Search in P2P Networks (2). Based on the search talk given in December ’07, this removes the case studies and gives a more general overview of the issues involved in distributed search. The talk was given at a PhD away day in Kingussie.
December 2007. Search in P2P Networks. A general overview of the issues involved in querying data on peer-to-peer networks.
May 2007. Unofficial Guide to SH Project Success (6-Up), 1-Up. Slides from a talk given to third year students, giving advice on how to do SH projects.
Posters
November 2010. Motivations and Designs for H2O. Two posters which where displayed together at the http://www.sicsa.ac.uk/events/sicsa-demofest event. The first poster (motivations) details the reasons why we are creating H2O, while the second (designs) illustrates its architecture.
June 2010. H2O: An Autonomic, Resource-Aware Distributed Database System. A poster which motivates the work that I’m doing and gives details on H2O’s architecture.
December 2008. DBHarvester: A Resource Harvesting Distributed Database. A poster which provides an overview of the work that I’m currently undertaking and some of the issues in the research area. It won the award for best poster.
March 2008. Conway’s Game of Life. A poster created for a National Science Week open day, showing interesting aspects of Computer Science.
December 2007. Search over Peer-to-Peer Networks. Based in part on the Search in P2P Systems talk (above) this presents an overview of the issues in querying data over P2P systems. It won the award for best first year poster.
Papers
June 2010. H2O: An Autonomic, Resource-Aware Distributed Database System. Abstract; Paper.
Technical Reports
February 2010. An Approach to Ad-hoc Cloud Computing. Abstract; Report.
July 2006. Towards Adaptable and Adaptive Policy-Free Middleware. Abstract; Report.
Award Winning Short Films
December 2006. Coding on the Shoulders of Giants. The product of a final year Multimedia practical. Watch the video.
Other
May 2008. Postgraduate Reading Group. I ran a postgraduate reading group for a few months in 2008. To basic idea was to get to know other people in the department, find out what they are doing, and possibly expand your horizons a bit (it might even impact our own research). We looked at the following papers while it was running.
April 2008. Mug Design. I designed the print for the school’s coffee mugs (quite an honour as I’m sure you can imagine). There are two designs that you can see here.
May 2007. Senior Honours Project. I won third place at the Scottish Young Software Engineer of the Year Awards for my work on YaWSA.
May 2006. Junior Honours Project Report. The project report submitted as part of the 3rd year team project. We had to develop a stock market simulation that
allowed clients to buy and sell shares between teams. Our team won the prize for best team project.