The School of Computing

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Dr. Rich Boakes

Senior Lecturer

School of Computing

Buckingham Building, Lion Terrace, Portsmouth PO1 3HE

rich.boakes@port.ac.uk

http://rjb.soc.port.ac.uk/

Profile

Academic Qualifications

PhD, BSc (Hons)

Teaching Interests

I’m involved in teaching programming and web units.

Research Interests

I am particularly interested in the use of disruptive technologies that bring about systemic change. I find that I’m often looking at similar problems involving the unification of heterogeneous data.  Building, using and understanding the operation of federated global distributed systems.

PhD Supervision

Gareth Toomey, A Semantic Web Examiner of Emergent Phenomena

Industry Experience

I’ve worked for IBM, Netscape, and as an independent contractor on various projects for many companies including larger projects for Orange, Vodafone & BT.

Selected Publications

Baker, Mark and Boakes, Rich (2008) Slogger: a profiling and analysis system based on Semantic Web technologies. Scientific Programming, 16 (2-3). pp. 183-204. ISSN 1058-9244