Dr Lee Gillam

Biography

Currently a Lecturer in the Department of Computing. Research interests include computational terminology, information extraction and Grid computing. Has been responsible for software architectures for a number of systems developed for research projects supported by the EU's IT Research and Development programmes - TRANSTERM, POINTER, INTERVAL, ACE, SALT , GIDA, and PI on the eContent project LIRICS - and the UK EPSRC and ESRC - SAFE-DIS, SOCIS and FINGRID.

Developed, directed, and marketed the System Quirk set of applications, involving development of programs using C, C++, Prolog, Java, Oracle, XML, CORBA and a variety of integrations of these technologies. Also knows a bit of Perl, shell scripting, Unix and Windows administration, networking protocols and various other hints, tips and tools.

Designed and helped build the Department's Wireless Computing network - the first fully operational wireless network in the University - and developed the Laptop Scheme for students within the Department. Set up the Department's Grid Computing resource using a cluster of machines, RedHat Linux, Globus and OGSA-DAI, and more recently Condor (a 100+ processor pool) and the Storage Resource Broker (SRB) with its metadata catalog (MCAT). This is soon to be expanded through a bid he wrote for SRIF-3 funding to incorporate a further 100+ processors and 40+TB disk storage, and includes the recently installed Access Grid Node (AGN). Recently involved with activities relating to Internet Protocol Television (IPTV), particularly IET.tv. Instrumental in launching the Department's Masters programme in Internet Computing and the Introductory Grid Computing module.

Since 2000, member of the International Standards Organisation (ISO) Technical Committee 37 (ISO TC 37) through the British Standards Institution (BSI) and has represented BSI on subcommittee 3 (SC3) as a Principal UK Expert, and headed the UK delegation to SC4. TC37 is concerned with standards for "Terminology and other language resources". Contributed to ISO 16642 (Terminological markup framework), revisions of ISO 12620 (Data Categories) and ISO 12615 (Bibliographic References), further parts of ISO 639 (Language Codes), BS 8430 (Terminology fundamentals), the forthcoming ISO 24610-1 (Feature Structure Representation) and other standards. Many of these are available here. Acts as a Liaison member between TS/1 and ICT/-, the Information and Communications Technology Co-ordination and Strategy Committee.

Chairs the Surrey Research Staff Forum (RSF) and represents RSF on the University Research and Enterprise Committee (UREC).