Biography
Tom Jackson
Grid Project Officer, University of York.

Dr Thomas Jackson was awarded a BEng in Electronics and Electrical Engineering from Salford University in 1987 and awarded a DPhil in Computer Science from the University of York, in 1995. His major field of study was neural computing and artificial intelligence.

He is currently the White Rose Grid Project Officer at the University of York, managing a diverse range of Grid computing activities, including major e-Science technology demonstrators in the area of aeroengine diagnostics, in collaboration with Rolls-Royce and Data Systems and Solutions. Prior to this he served for five years as a Scientific Officer for the European Commission at the EC Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy. Between 1988 and 1993 he was a senior engineer within the Systems Computing R&D group of British Aerospace Military Aircraft Limited. This group specialised in advanced concepts and future projects for avionic flight systems. Between 1993 and 1997 he was Research Manager for the High Integrity Systems Engineering group in the Computer Science Department of the University of York.

He is the author/co-author of numerous publications in refereed conferences and journals, and co-author of the book 'An Introduction to Neural Computing' (Bristol, IOP, 1990).


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