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Pro. John Darlington
Professor John Darlington is a Professor in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London and head of the Social Computing Group (previously the Imperial College Internet Centre). Professor Darlington has a long and distinguished track record both in the development of novel software technologies and in the creation of facilities to improve the accessibility and ease of use of computational resources. These developments have included pioneering developments in functional programming languages, program transformation, functional skeletons, co-ordination forms and component-based application development frameworks and the founding and operation of the Imperial College Fujitsu Parallel Research Centre, the Imperial College Parallel Computing Centre, the London e-Science Centre the Imperial College Internet Centre.
In 2005 Professor Darlington and the London e-Science Centre led an influential UK e-Science Core Programme project: .A Market for Computational Services. This project involved a range of e-Science Centres and Universities (London, CLRC, Manchester, Southampton, Swansea and the Liverpool John Moores Astrophysics Research Institute) and commercial organisations (Sun Microsystems, SGI, NAg, Real Time Engineering and CSC). The project pioneered many of the developments now emerging in Cloud Computing and developed an architecture to reconstruct the Internet as a series of open markets in use-on-demand, pay-per-use services, including Web Services, brokering organisations and utility computing platforms. This architecture was fully implemented and demonstrated in a series of case studies including the brokering of pay-per.use Web Services onto alternative utility computing platforms, applications to engineering mesh-generation services and the brokering of instrument time.
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