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External Collaborations
Sarajevo School of Science and Technology (SSST)
Broadwan project
SecurePhone project
Collaboration with the Dixons Group
Collaboration with the Centre for Information and Computer Sciences
Visiting Professors
Visiting Fellows
Sarajevo School of Science and Technology (SSST)
Sarajevo is a city trying hard to revitalise itself after the war in the 1990s and the prolonged siege that caused much loss of life and destruction of buildings and infrastructure. Modern economies depend on IT and Information Systems. Bosnia and Sarajevo in particular lack a home grown computing school and this has lead to setting up of a private engineering and computing school open to all students of whatever ethnic background.
An agreement was made on March 1 2004 between the University of Buckingham and Sarajevo School of Science and Technology. The agreement will enable UB, the Awarding Institution, to validate, monitor and examine four year undergraduate degree programme(s) in Computer Science and/or Information Systems, which will be offered by SSST, the Partner Organisation from September 2004, and award a UB degree to those students who have fulfilled all the requirements of the SSST degree programme(s).
The aims of the agreement are for both UB and SSST to be strengthened in their respective profiles internationally, to enable academic, financial and cultural benefits to accrue to both parties.
Professor Adams has agreed to teach courses in Sarajevo in the coming years (from 2005) as well as being responsible for the validation. It is hoped that other colleagues will join in and construct a real synergy between the two institutions.
Sarajevo School of Science and Technology (SSST) (external link)
Broadwan project
Broadwan (external link) is a European co-funded project (IST-2002-001930) that aims at realising a combined fixed and mobile wireless network providing good coverage for all. Efficient wireless access systems ensure that everyone in Europe can get access for broadband services within a reasonable time frame. A pan-European full service coverage requirement leads to an access networking structure where wireless solutions are necessary as well as attractive.
European broadband industry in the lead will have a very interesting global market. In some areas wireless solutions will interwork with or compete with other solutions, in other areas they represent the only possibility. The radio solutions will be important for competition and represent an extension of the fixed network into the broadband nomadic and mobile domain. The group at Buckingham have concentrated on Ipv6 and "ad hoc" network construction and have been particularly concerned with QoS and denial of service attacks. |
SecurePhone project
SecurePhone (external link) is a European co-funded project (IST-2002-506883) that aims at realising a new mobile communication system enabling biometrically authenticated users to deal m-contracts during a mobile phone call in a highly dependable and secure way. The SecurePhone is based on an prototypal 3G/B3G-enabled smartphone, providing a number of innovative functionalities, including authentication by means of a “biometric recogniser”, mutually recognise each other, and exchange in real time audio and / or e-signed text files.
SecurePhone's biometric recogniser will be based on fusing a combination of non-intrusive innovative biometric schemes such as audio-visual and handwritten signature identification techniques. Biometrically authenticated users get direct access to the SecurePhone's built-in e-signing facilities. The Buckingham Imaging Group (BIG) has been developing an innovative wavelet-based face verification scheme that is efficient for implementation on PDAs and yet performs as well as state-of-the-art face verification schemes. |
Our collaboration with the Dixons Group
Buckingham's place at the cutting edge of information systems is supported through our partnership
with the Dixons Group (external link). Initial funding from Dixons was
used to equip a new laboratory with state-of-the-art multimedia PCs. Some of the money has also
been used to support research into specific areas such as security. Dixons has valuable experience
of information and communications technologies as an on-line retailer, an Internet Service Provider
and the biggest high street retailer of IT products in the UK. |
Our Collaboration with the Centre for Information and Computer Sciences
We are registered with the Centre for Information and
Computer Sciences (external link) as part of the Higher
Education Academy (formerly the Learning and Teaching Support Network), which provides
professional support for ICS academics. |
Visiting Professors
Buckingham's Professor Adams holds a joint appointment with the Rutherford Laboratory where work on high speed networks, especially broadcast cellular, have been done under a number of EU projects which have provided research funds and researchers' salaries. The group also has an active work programme on wavelet compression. A remote video link support for remote surgical consultants has led to a collaboration with Guys and St Thomas Hospitals which has resulted in the senior plastic surgeon, Professor Anthony Rowsell, being made a visiting professor in our University. This work is continuing and has resulted in a number of other related projects.
Visiting Fellows
Jeremy holds the MA degree in Mathematics from Cambridge University and the DPhil in Computer Science from Buckingham. His doctoral research was in the theoretical avoidance of deadlock in concurrent systems. His current computing interests are agile development methodologies, grid computation, and large scale software engineering. Website for GSK: www.gsk.com (external link) |
Dr Jeremy Martin
Website for Scientio: www.scientio.com (external link) |
Dr Andrew Edmonds