Career and Publications

Before I became an independent practitioner in digital technologies, I was a computer scientist at the University of Westminster, where I did my PhD; Queen Mary, London, where I became a senior lecturer; and HP Labs in Palo Alto and Bristol, where I was a senior researcher.

Also see my LinkedIn profile, and my patents.

Visiting Professorships

In 2011 I was a visiting professor at ITU in Copenhagen, where I launched a project on crowd computer interaction. In 2005-2008, while at HP Labs, I was visiting professor at the University of Bath and worked on the Cityware project.

Research Director

I was research director at the Pervasive Media Studio in 2011.

Editorial

I was associate editor in chief at IEEE Pervasive Computing from its inception, with responsibility for the topic of Software.

Co-edited the International Journal of Security and Networks special issue on Secure Spontaneous Interaction (2009).

Co-editing the IEEE Pervasive Computing special issue on Labelling the World.

Co-edited the January-March 2009 special issue (vol. 8 no. 1) on Environmental Sustainability, the July-September 2007 (Vol. 6, No. 3) issue on Urban Computing, the April-June 2006 (Vol. 5, No. 2) issue on Pervasive Computing for Emerging Economies, and the July-September 2004 (Vol. 3, No. 3) issue on Building and Evaluating Ubiquitous System Software.

The IEEE Pervasive Computing editorial calendar is here.

Organising committees

• Co-organiser of the Crowd Computer Interaction workshop at CHI 2009.
• Co-organiser of the UbiPhysics workshop on designing for physically integrated interaction at Ubicomp 2005.
• Member of organising committee for the Workshop on What makes for good application-led research in ubiquitous computing? at Pervasive 2005.
• Co-chair of the committee for tech notes at Ubicomp 2003.
• Co-organiser of the Workshop on Supporting Spontaneous Interaction in Ubiquitous Computing Settings, held at UbiComp 2002.
• General chair of WMCSA 2002.

Programme committees

• Globicomp.
• Ubicomp 2009.
• Ubicomp 2008.
• Internet of Things 2008.
• PerSec 2006, the Third IEEE International Workshop on Pervasive Computing and Communication Security, at PerCom 2006.
• PerSec 2005, the Second IEEE International Workshop on Pervasive Computing and Communication Security, at PerCom 2005.
• Pervasive 2004.
• Less recently: UbiComp 2002, Pervasive 2002, MDM 2003 - 4th International Conference on Mobile Data Management and MobiSys 2003.

Invited talks

• Industrial keynote on City Machines at ICPS 2010, the 7th ACM International Conference on Pervasive Services.
• Panellist at Ubicomp 2009.
• Panellist at ICPS 2009.
• Keynote at CAPC 2008, the 2008 International Workshop on Context-Aware Pervasive Communities, at Pervasive 2008, Sydney, May 2008.
• Keynote at IWSSI 2007, the First International Workshop on Security for Spontaneous Interaction, at Ubicomp 2007, Innsbruck, September 2007.
• Keynote at the Workshop on Software Engineering Challenges for Ubiquitous Computing, June 2006.
• Session keynote at the 3rd UK-UbiNet Workshop: Designing, evaluating and using ubiquitous computing systems.
• Invited talk on Secure Spontaneous Interactions in Ubiquitous Computing at the Computing Science Department, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, April 2004 - and similar invited talks at Trinity College Dublin and Bath University in February and March. Here is a pdf version, but it's somewhat garbled where I used PowerPoint animation.
• Invited talk "The next 700 Billion Smart Physical Objects" at SACSIS 2003 (Japanese only), Tokyo, May 2003.
• Location-aware sensing and Computing. Invited survey talk given at the Workshop on the Intersection of Geospatial Information and Information Technology, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, October 2001.
• Keynote talk at MobiDE 2001, Santa Barbara, on May 20th 2001.
• Pervasive Computing 2001 at NIST on May 1st.
• The keynote talk at HUC2K
• A talk on CoolTown to the Engineering Department, University of Cambridge in September 2000

Publications

These are my publications up to 1999. For more recent publications, see my computer science project pages and my textbook page.

 

• Tim Kindberg, Nick Bryan-Kinns, Ranjit Makwana (1999). Supporting the Shared Care of Diabetic Patients, in Group99, Arizona, April 1999.
• Scott Mitchell, Hani Naguib, George Coulouris and Tim Kindberg (1999). A QoS Support Framework for Dynamically Reconfigurable Multimedia Applications, in Lea Kutvonen, Hartmut König and Martti Tienari (eds), Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems II, pp 17-30. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston. Also available from Djinn project home page.
• Tim Kindberg (1998). Security for Network Places, Presented at the Distributed Systems Security Workshop, ECOOP98, Brussels, June 1998.
• Hani Naguib, Tim Kindberg, Scott Mitchell, and George Coulouris (1998). Modelling QoS Characteristics of Multimedia Applications, Proc. RTSS 98, the 13th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, Madrid, Spain, December. Also available from Djinn project home page.
• Scott Mitchell, Hani Naguib, George Coulouris and Tim Kindberg (1998). Dynamically Reconfiguring Multimedia Components: A Model-Based Approach. Proc. SIGOPS EW98, the Eighth ACM SIGOPS European Workshop, Sintra, Portugal, September 1998. Also available from Djinn project home page.
• T. Kindberg (1998). On uncertainty: a study of diabetic patient care. Available from Project Mushroom home page.
• T. Kindberg (1998). An open architecture for replicated shared objects. PerDiS workshop on workshop on distribution, persistence and Java. Lisbon, October 1997. Available from Project Mushroom home page.
• G. Coulouris, J. Dollimore, T. Kindberg and M. Roberts (1997). A security architecture for PerDiS in Java. PerDiS workshop on workshop on distribution, persistence and Java. Lisbon, October 1997.
• T. Kindberg, G. Coulouris, J. Dollimore and Jyrki Heikkinen (1996). Sharing objects over the Internet: the Mushroom approach. Proc. IEEE Global Internet 1996, London, Nov. 1996, pp. 67-71.
• T. Kindberg (1996). A stake in Cyberspace. Proc. 7th. ACM SIGOPS European Workshop, Connemara, Eire, Sept. 1996, pp. 83-88.
• T. Kindberg (1996). Mushroom: a framework for collaboration and interaction across the InternetProc. CSCW & the Web, 5th ERCIM workshop, Busbach, U., Kerr, D., and Sikkel, K. (eds), GMD, 1996, pp. 43-53.
• T. Kindberg (1995). A Sequencing Service for Group Communication (abstract). Proc. 14th annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, p.260, Aug. 1995.
• T. Kindberg (1995). A Sequencing Service for Group Communication, Tech. Report no. 698, Queen Mary & Westfield College Dept. of CS, 1995.
• G. Coulouris, J. Dollimore, T. Kindberg (1994). Distributed Systems - Concepts and Design, 2nd edition, Addison-Wesley, 1994.
• R. Achmatowicz and T. Kindberg (1994). Object Groups for Groupware Applications: Application Requirements and Design Issues, proc. European Research Seminar on Advances in Distributed Systems, pp. 269-274.
• T. Kindberg, A. Sahiner, Y. Paker (1994). Adaptive Parallelism under Equus, Proceedings Second International Workshop on Configurable Distributed Systems, IEEE, Carnegie-Mellon University, March 1994, pp.172-182.
• T. Kindberg (1992). Reconfiguring Client-server systems, Tech Report no. 630, Queen Mary & Westfield College Dept. of CS, 1992.
• T. Kindberg, A. Sahiner, Y. Paker (1992). Equus: an Environment for Reconfigurable Distributed Computations, Tech. Report no. 591, Queen Mary & Westfield College Dept. of CS, 1992.
• T. Kindberg (1990). Reconfiguring Distributed Computations, PhD thesis, University of Westminster, October 1990.
• T. Kindberg (1990). Making Waves: Computation Dynamics on a Processor Pool, Proceedings of the Microsystem Design Show Conference: New Parallel and Embedded Architectures, Wembley, Feb. 8th., 1990, pp. E/2/1 - E/2/15.
• Dick Pountain (1989). Equus: A Parallel Operating System, Byte, Sept. 1989, pp. 80IS-3 - 80IS-8.
• A.P. Sherman, T. Kindberg (1989). Horsebox, Parallelogram, no. 14, May 1989, pp. 18-19.
• A.V. Sahiner, T. Kindberg and Y. Paker (1988). A Distributed Architecture for Image Processing, Parallel Architectures and Computer Vision, I. Page, ed., Oxford Science Publications, Clarendon Press, 1988, pp. 187-189.
• T. Kindberg, A.V. Sahiner and Y. Paker (1987). Worm Programs, Distributed Operating Systems, Theory and Practice, Y. Paker, J-P. Banatre and M. Bozyigit, eds., NATO ASI Series F, vol. 28, 1987, pp. 335-379.
• T. Kindberg (1986). The Worm That Returns, The Guardian, Feb. 6th., 1986.