I have had and still maintain a long standing interest in computer system design, encompassing machine architecture and organisation, operating systems with a focus on real time performance, IPC, File Systems and I/O Subsystems. This is a continuing thread of activity which started during the late 1980s, when I maintained VAX architecture machines and peripherals. Since then I have developed embedded code, device drivers and hardware in industry, worked for several years as a performance analyst on large Unix systems, and did my MSc research project on the WalNUT password capability system. Unusually, I have development and research experience across all layers of a computer system, from analogue hardware up to IPC and applications.

Due to a particular lack of interest in architecture and related research topics by Australian funding bodies and prospective postgraduates, I have exploited this expertise primarily in ClSIT BSE/BCS/MDC curriculum and courseware development since 2000, and in support of research in ad hoc networks and systems.

For details of many of the industry projects I have worked on, refer main toolbar for Industry Publications and Industry Projects.

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Castro M D, Pose R D and Kopp C, Password-Capabilities and the WalNUT Kernel, The Computer Journal, vol 51, issue 5, Oxford University Press, Oxford England UK, pp. 595-606.