Peter G. Harrison
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| Peter Harrison | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1951 (age 60–61) Nottingham[1] |
| Residence | London, UK |
| Citizenship | British |
| Fields | performance analysis |
| Institutions | Imperial College London |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge Imperial College London |
| Doctoral advisor | Meir M. Lehman |
| Doctoral students | Ashok Argent-Katwala (2006) Susanna Au-Yeung (2008) William Knottenbelt (2000) Catalina Matas (2001) Ben Strulo (1993) Harf Zatschler (2004)[2] |
| Known for | RCAT |
| Notable awards | Mayhew Prize (1973) |
Peter George Harrison (born 1951) is a Professor of Computing Science at Imperial College London.[3]
[edit] Education
Harrison attended Christ's College, Cambridge, where he was a Wrangler in Mathematics (1972) and gained a Distinction in Part III of the Mathematical Tripos (1973), winning the Mayhew Prize for Applied Mathematics.[4]
[edit] Professional life and research
After spending two years in industry, Harrison moved to Imperial College, London where he has worked since, obtaining his Ph.D. in Computing Science in 1979 with a thesis titled "Representative queueing network models of computer systems in terms of time delay probability distributions" and lecturing since 1983.[5]
Current research interests include parallel algorithms, performance engineering, queueing theory, stochastic models and stochastic process algebra, particularly the application of RCAT to find product form solutions.[6]
Harrison has coauthored two books, Functional Programming with Tony Field,[7] and Performance Modelling of Communication Networks and Computer Architectures with Naresh Patel[8] and published over 150 papers.[9]
Harrison is an associate editor of The Computer Journal.[10]
Via Saharon Shelah and Dov Gabbay, Harrison has an Erdős number of 3.[11]
[edit] References
- ^ Harrison, Peter G. (1986). "An Enhanced Approximation by Pair-Wise Analysis of Servers for Time Delay Distributions in Queueing Networks". IEEE transactions on computers (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) 35 (1 (January)): 54–61. doi:10.1109/TC.1986.1676657. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&isnumber=35249&arnumber=1676657. Retrieved 2009-04-05.
- ^ Peter G. Harrison at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
- ^ "Harrison's Personal Home Page". Imperial College London. http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~pgh/.
- ^ ""Turning Back Time - What Impact on Performance?" lecturer biography". British Computer Society. http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.23085. Retrieved 2009-03-17.
- ^ Gelenbe, Erol (2000). System performance evaluation: methodologies and applications. CRC Press. p. 330. ISBN 0849323576.
- ^ "Peter Harrison biography". Analysis, Engineering, Simulation & Optimization of Performance group at Imperial College. http://aesop.doc.ic.ac.uk/people/pgh/.
- ^ Field, Anthony J.; Harrison, Peter G. (1988). Functional programming. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0201192497, 9780201192490.
- ^ Harrison, Peter G.; Patel, Naresh M. (1992). Performance Modelling of Communication Networks and Computer Architectures. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0201544199, 9780201544190
- ^ "Professor Peter Harrison's Publications". Imperial College London. http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/people/p.harrison/publications. Retrieved 2009-05-01.
- ^ "Editorial board of The Computer Journal". Oxford Journals. http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/computer_journal/editorial_board.html. Retrieved 2009-03-17.
- ^ "List of Department of Computing, Imperial College staff by Erdos number". http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~iccp/erdos.html.
