The School of Computing
Dr. Rich Boakes
Senior Lecturer
School of Computing
Buckingham Building, Lion Terrace, Portsmouth PO1 3HE
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