General info

An executive summary for those who, quite understandably, don't wish to know more about me than they absolutely have to!

• I'm currently CEO of Cambridge Visual Networks, a startup developing new applications based around networked displays.
• I'm also director of the Ndiyo project. This is attempting to find new network computing architectures which can be much more affordable for the billions of people who will never be able to afford one PC each.
• Before that I was working on Exbiblio, which I co-founded in 2004 .
• I also co-founded Newnham Research, now DisplayLink, and spent much of 2003/4 getting that going, before handing it over to its existing management.
• I do some consulting work under the name Newnham Consulting.
• I have often been credited in the media with inventing the webcam. This is not really justified, though I did have something to do with it. You can find the story in my biography of the Trojan Room coffee pot! More recent articles about the pot made the front pages of both the London Times (no longer online) and the Washington Post, and there's lots more stuff about the pot here including a radio interview with CBC Radio.
• For several years I was a Research Scientist at AT&T Laboratories Cambridge, UK, the lab which was formerly ORL. You can find out about what I did at AT&T here.
• I did a Ph.D. on Augmented Reality in the Rainbow group at the University of Cambridge Computer Lab. I was sponsored by (and spent much of my time at) Rank Xerox EuroPARC, which then became part of XRCE. More details on my research interests can be found here.
• Here's a picture from a different angle which is more revealing about the true state of my hair loss! (And that photo was taken some years ago) If your browser will let you, you can also hear me say hello. You can find some other personal info here.
• I think I ran the first web server in Cambridge. I certainly ran the first one in the University, which then became the platform for Computer Science students who wanted to do projects around this new-fangled World Wide Web thing...
• I have a weblog at www.statusq.org.