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Conrad Hughes has been a research fellow at the University of Edinburgh since
January 2003 (time of writing: November 2006), mainly working on DIRC's "dependable
service-centric grid computing" activity, but with additional projects
including epidemic visualisation for the World Health Organisation's Field
Information Management System (FIMS) and database synchronisation technology
for the NHS in Scotland. He has a BA in Mathematics (I, Trinity College, University
of Dublin, 1996) and before joining the university had over a decade's experience
of commercial IT work ranging from teaching through cryptography and public
key infrastructure to fault-tolerant distributed systems.
His research-related interests include all kinds of programming and mathematical
puzzles, software development methodology, programming languages, technology-in-context,
interdisciplinarity, games and holism.
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