Dr Tim Chown, University of Southampton, United Kingdom

Dr Tim Chown received a PhD in computer vision systems in 1991 from the University of Southampton, where he is currently employed as the Systems Manager for the Department of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS). Within his academic role, he leads the IPv6 activity in the Pervasive Computing and Networks (PCaN) Group within the Department.

The PCaN group has had native IPv6 connectivity to the world-wide 6bone network since July 1997. Southampton was a partner on the European 6INIT IPv6 deployment project, and now the wireless IPv6 follow-up project 6WINIT. Dr Chown led the Bermuda 2 UK academic IPv6 deployment pilot, and is leader of the IPv6 WG activity on the European GEANT project. Southampton is a member of the IPv6 Forum, Dr Chown being co-chair of the Forum's Education and Awareness WG.

Most recently Dr Chown led Southampton's participation on the forthcoming European Fifth Framework IPv6 research and deployment projects, 6NET and Euro6IX. With a combined project investment of over 30M Euros, these projects will play a crucial role in paving the way for future commercial IPv6 services in Europe.

Dr Chown has also recently been active in a number of technology transfer activities, including the UKERNA QoS Think Tank, the JANET H.323 Architecture Working Group, the VIP H.323 pilot, the VTAS advisory service and JISC/JCAS projects in areas such as IP security, firewalls, anti-virus and PKI systems.

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