17-643: Roure may refer to: People with the surname [ edit ] David De Roure (born 1962), British professor Luis Alvarez Roure (born 1976), Puerto Rican painter Marta Roure (born 1981), Andorran singer and actress Martine Roure (born 1948), French politician Sergi Escobar Roure (born 1974), Spanish track cyclist Places [ edit ] Roure, Alpes-Maritimes , France Roure, Piedmont , Italy Vall-de-roures, also known as Valderrobres , Spain Other [ edit ] El Roure, local name used for
34-604: A PhD in the Cavendish Laboratory . His research involved very early work in computer applications and he was a user of the original EDSAC computer, the world's first stored-program electronic computer to go into general service. After his PhD he joined the Cambridge Mathematical Laboratory and contributed to the development of the EDSAC 2 computer. In the early 1960s, he was leader of software development in
51-457: A computer scientist, he contributed to many fields as computer science developed into a discipline of its own. At Southampton he continued his almost unique abilities in writing and lecturing. In 2009, on the 60th anniversary of the completion of the Cambridge EDSAC computer, he delivered a seminal lecture on what was involved in programming this pioneering machine in the 1950s. He was one of
68-502: A department in 1986, becoming a full professor in 2000. He was Warden of South Stoneham House in the late 80s. He was closely involved in the UK e-Science programme and is best known for the myExperiment website for sharing scientific workflows and research objects , as well as the Semantic Grid initiative, the UK's Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute (OMII-UK) and its successor,
85-775: Is a supernumerary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford , and Oxford Martin School Senior Alumni Fellow. From 2009 to 2013 he held the post of National Strategic Director for e-Social Science . and was subsequently a Strategic Advisor to the UK Economic and Social Research Council in the area of new and emerging forms of data and realtime analytics. He was Director of the Oxford e-Research Centre (OeRC) from 2012 to 2017. De Roure grew up in West Sussex and studied for an undergraduate degree in mathematics with Physics at
102-666: Is also Technical Director of the Centre for Practice & Research in Science & Music at the Royal Northern College of Music . Prior to e-Science he worked on projects such as What's the Score , and in areas such as distributed computing , Amorphous computing , Ubiquitous computing and Hypertext with funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council . De Roure
119-625: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages David De Roure David Charles De Roure FBCS FIMA CITP is an English computer scientist who is a professor of e-Research at the University of Oxford , where he is responsible for Digital Humanities in The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH), and is a Turing Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute . He
136-539: The Times Higher Education magazine as one of the "founding fathers" of computer science. He married his wife, Valerie. They had two children: Nik and Jacky. Barron's work with Henry Rishbeth on radio wave propagation was pioneering in furthering the understanding of how radio waves were reflected at the ionospheric boundary. Barron began his academic career in Cambridge University where he took
153-769: The Monastery of Santa María del Roure in Catalonia, Spain Palais du Roure , Avignon, France Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Roure . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Roure&oldid=1033676960 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description
170-827: The Software Sustainability Institute . De Roure was the Director of Envisense, the DTI Next Wave Centre for Pervasive Computing in the Environment, from 2003 to 2005. He moved to the Oxford e-Research Centre in July 2010. In 2009 he was appointed as the National Strategic Director for e-Social Science by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and subsequently held the post of Strategic Advisor in
187-513: The University of Southampton , completing his studies in 1984. He stayed on to do a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1990 initially under the supervision of David W. Barron and Peter Henderson on a Lisp environment for modelling distributed computing . Following an early career in medical electronics at Sonicaid , De Roure held a longstanding position in the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton from its formation as
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#1733093309110204-712: The Titan project, a joint effort with Ferranti Ltd to develop a reduced version of the Atlas computer. In this role he led the Cambridge efforts to develop the Titan Supervisor (a multi-programming operating system) and CPL ( Combined Programming Language ). The Titan Supervisor led in due course to the Cambridge Multiple-Access System which provided a pioneering time-sharing service to a large user community in Cambridge and
221-522: The area of new and emerging forms of data and realtime analytics, leading to the commissioning of projects under phase 3 of the Big Data Network. His personal research interests include e-Research and Computational musicology and his projects build on Semantic Web , Web 2.0 and Scientific workflow system technologies. A notable contribution to the field of the Semantic Web is his gloss of
238-548: The common name for the Web Ontology Language , properly 'WOL' and commonly referred to as 'OWL', as deriving from A.A. Milne's character Owl in the Winnie-the-Pooh stories. Characteristically his work focuses on the 'long tail' of researchers through adoption of user-centric methodologies. He currently works on Social Machines , Digital Humanities , Experimental Humanities, and Internet of Things . De Roure
255-721: The founding editors of Software: Practice and Experience , and served as the editor from 1971 for over 30 years. Barron is the author of many texts that explained the emerging subject to generations of students and researchers. With others he published, in 1967, the manual for Titan Autocode programming. In subsequent years Barron wrote texts on Recursive Programming (1968), Assemblers and Loaders (1969), Operating Systems (1971 and 1984), Programming Languages (1977), Pascal Implementation (1981), Advanced Programming (1984), Text Processing and Typesetting (1987) and Scripting Languages (2000). On his personal web page Barron modestly described himself as "old-fashioned scholar, relic of
272-567: Was also later employed in the Cambridge-based Computer Aided Design Centre. The CPL project broke new ground in language design and application generality, and the resulting defining paper was written by the original development team. CPL was notable for leading to BCPL and hence B and then C programming language . Barron left Cambridge in 1967 to take up a chair of computer science at the University of Southampton where he remained until his retirement in 2000. As
289-640: Was involved in the organisation of Digital Research 2012, FORCE 2015, Web Science 2015, and the Digital Humanities Oxford Summer School series. He was chair of the PETRAS conference “Living in the Internet of Things” in 2018 and 2019. David W. Barron David William Barron FBCS (9 January 1935 – 2 January 2012) was a British academic in Physics and Computer Science who was described in
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