The Information Grid
Speaker Information
Dr Liz Lyon
Director, UKOLN
e.lyon@ukoln.ac.uk
Prof. Tony Hey
Director, e-Science Programme
Tony.Hey@epsrc.ac.uk
Dr Alicia Wise
Head of Development, JISC
Andy Powell
Assistant Director, UKOLN
a.powell@ukoln.ac.uk
Prof Keith Jeffery
CLRC RAL
K.G.Jeffery@rl.ac.uk
Dr. Reagan W. Moore
moore@sdsc.edu
Dr Moore is Co-Program director for Data Intensive Computing at the San Diego Supercomputer Center and
an Adjunct Professor in the UCSD CSE department. He coordinates research efforts in development of
massive data analysis systems, data grids, and persistent archives. An ongoing research interest is support
for knowledge based data-intensive computing. Moore is an active participant in the digital library, data grid,
and persistent archive communities. Recent publications include an article on “Collection-based Persistent
Archives” published in D-Lib. Moore has been at SDSC since its inception, initially being responsible for
operating system development. Prior to that he worked as a computational plasma physicist at General
Atomics on equilibrium and stability of toroidal fusion devices. He has a Ph.D. in plasma physics from the
University of California, San Diego, (1978) and a B.S. in physics from the California Institute of Technology
(1967).
Kevin Ashley
k.Ashley@ulcc.ac.uk
Kevin Ashley (K.Ashley@ulcc.ac.uk) works at the University of London Computer Centre, which operates
computing services for the UK and European research, education and public sectors. For the past seven
years his work has primarily involved the preservation of large-scale digital resources and their description
and access. Most recently these resources have been primarily archival in nature, whether born digital or as
digital surrogates, and have involved many types of information (databases, text, images, video and audio)
with different access patterns and cataloguing requirements.
He is currently Service Manager for NDAD (http://ndad.ulcc.ac.uk/) operated for the Public Record Office of
England and Wales, and the National Data Repository at ULCC, which provides digital archiving and
distribution services for organisations such as the British Library. He is a board member of the Digital
Preservation Coalition and a contributor to electronic records management training provided by the Archive
Skills Consultancy (www.archive-skills.com). His career has previously involved pattern recognition in
medical image analysis, network protocol development, standards development and numerical software
tools.
Prof David De Roure and Dr Jeremy Frey
University of Southampton
dder@ecs.soton.ac.uk
j.g.frey@relay.soton.ac.uk
Alan Robiette
agr@westgate.force9.co.uk
Alan Robiette is Programme Director for Authentication and Security
within the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), which provides
national infrastructure and services for UK further and higher
education.
Alan is a physical scientist by training and pursued a teaching and
research career in chemical physics for a number of years. Following
a move into IT management, he was an IT Director for some 15 years,
working in some of the country's leading HEIs. He is a former member
of the Computer Board for Universities and Research Councils, and has
served on numerous national committees and other bodies related to
computing and computational research
Michael Breaks
m.l.breaks@hw.ac.uk
Michael Breaks has been University Librarian of Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh since 1985, having
previously worked in university libraries in England, Wales and Ireland. He has been a member of a number
of UK policy-making committees in the area of networked information services, including the eLib Information
Technology Sub-Committee of the Follett Group and the JISC Committee for Electronic Information.
He is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of Eduserv, which includes CHEST, NISS and the
ATHENS authentication service, and is President of IATUL (International Association of Technological
University Libraries), which has over 200 members from 40 countries. He is Director of ‘EEVL: the guide to
Engineering, Mathematics and Computing Information on the Internet’ (www.eevl.ac.uk), the internationally
recognised service based at Heriot Watt University, which provides a subject gateway to Internet information
resources.
Dr Richard Durbin
Deputy Director, Head of Informatics
The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Richard.durbin@sanger.ac.uk