David De Roure

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David De Roure
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David De Roure
Born
David Charles De Roure

(1962-09-03) 3 September 1962 (age 59)
North London, England
NationalityBritish
Known forSignificant Contributions to e-Research[1]
AwardsFellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS)
Scientific career
FieldsDigital humanities
e-Research
Computational musicology
Semantic web
Scientific workflow systems
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford
University of Southampton
ThesisA Lisp environment for modelling distributed systems (1990)
Doctoral advisorDavid W. Barron
Peter Henderson
Websitewww.oerc.ox.ac.uk/people/dder
www.scilogs.com/eresearch
twitter.com/dder

David Charles De Roure PhD[2] FBCS[3] FIMA[4] CITP[5] is a Professor of e-Research at the University of Oxford, where he is responsible for Digital Humanities in The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH),[6] and is a Turing Fellow [7] at The Alan Turing Institute.[8] He was Director of the Oxford e-Research Centre (OeRC)[9] from 2012-17. From 2009 to 2013 he held the post of National Strategic Director for e-Social Science.[10][11][12] and was subsequently a Strategic Advisor to the UK Economic and Social Research Council[13] in the area of new and emerging forms of data and realtime analytics. He is a supernumerary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford.[14] and Oxford Martin School Senior Alumni Fellow.[8]

Education[]

De Roure grew up in West Sussex and studied for an undergraduate degree in Mathematics with Physics at the University of Southampton, completing his studies in 1984. He stayed on to do a Doctor of Philosophy degree[2] in 1990 initially under the supervision of David W. Barron and Peter Henderson[15] on a Lisp environment for modelling distributed computing.

Research and career[]

Following an early career in medical electronics at Sonicaid, De Roure held a longstanding position in the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton[16] from its formation as a department in 1986, becoming a full professor in 2000. He was Warden of South Stoneham House in the late 80s. He was closely involved in the UK e-Science programme and is best known for the myExperiment website for sharing scientific workflows and research objects, as well as the Semantic Grid initiative, the UK's Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute (OMII-UK) and its successor, the Software Sustainability Institute. De Roure was the Director of Envisense, the DTI Next Wave Centre for Pervasive Computing in the Environment, from 2003-5. He moved to the Oxford e-Research Centre in July 2010.

In 2009 he was appointed as the National Strategic Director for e-Social Science by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and subsequently held the post of Strategic Advisor in the area of new and emerging forms of data and realtime analytics, leading to the commissioning of projects under phase 3 of the Big Data Network.[17]

His personal research interests[18][19][20] include e-Research and Computational musicology and his projects build on Semantic Web,[21] Web 2.0 and Scientific workflow system technologies. A notable contribution to the field of the Semantic Web is his gloss of the common name for the Web Ontology Language, properly 'WOL' and commonly referred to as 'OWL', as deriving from A.A. Milne's character Owl in the Winnie-the-Pooh stories.[22]

Characteristically his work focuses on the 'long tail' of researchers[23] through adoption of user-centric methodologies.[24] He currently works on Social Machines,[25][26] Digital Humanities, Experimental Humanities, and Internet of Things.[27] De Roure is also Technical Director of the Centre for Practice & Research in Science & Music at the Royal Northern College of Music.[28]

Prior to e-Science he worked on projects such as What's the Score,[29] and in areas such as distributed computing, Amorphous computing, Ubiquitous computing and Hypertext with funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.[30]

Academic service[]

De Roure was involved in the organisation of Digital Research 2012, FORCE 2015,[31][32] Web Science 2015,[33] and the Digital Humanities Oxford Summer School series.[34] He was chair of the PETRAS conference “Living in the Internet of Things” in 2018 and 2019.[35][36]

Personal life[]

De Roure is married to Gillian Catherine Payne and has four children.[citation needed]

References[]

  1. ^ "Scopus preview - de Roure, David - Author details - Scopus".
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b De Roure, David (1990). A Lisp environment for modelling distributed systems (PhD thesis). University of Southampton.
  3. ^ "BCS member register | BCS".
  4. ^ FIMA Institute_of_Mathematics_and_its_Applications
  5. ^ "BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT | BCS".
  6. ^ "Digital Humanities".
  7. ^ "David de Roure".
  8. ^ Jump up to: a b "Professor David de Roure".
  9. ^ Oxford e-research Centre.
  10. ^ "Dave De Roure – OeRC". Retrieved 15 June 2012.
  11. ^ De Roure, D.; Hendler, J. A. (2004). "E-Science: The grid and the Semantic Web". IEEE Intelligent Systems. 19: 65–71. doi:10.1109/MIS.2004.1265888.
  12. ^ "Research Councils UK".
  13. ^ "Research Councils UK".
  14. ^ "David de Roure | Wolfson College, Oxford".
  15. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 26 August 2012. Retrieved 23 August 2012.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  16. ^ "David De Roure, University of Southampton". Archived from the original on 23 August 2012.
  17. ^ "ESRC".
  18. ^ List of publications from Microsoft Academic
  19. ^ David De Roure publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  20. ^ David De Roure at DBLP Bibliography Server Edit this at Wikidata
  21. ^ Middleton, S. E.; Shadbolt, N. R.; De Roure, D. C. (2004). "Ontological user profiling in recommender systems" (PDF). ACM Transactions on Information Systems. 22: 54–88. doi:10.1145/963770.963773. S2CID 9881462.
  22. ^ "Winnie-the-Pooh".
  23. ^ Roure, D. D. (2010). "E-Science and the Web". Computer. 43 (5): 90–93. doi:10.1109/MC.2010.133.
  24. ^ De Roure, D.; Goble, C. (2009). "Software Design for Empowering Scientists" (PDF). IEEE Software. 26: 88–95. doi:10.1109/MS.2009.22. S2CID 33191938.
  25. ^ http://sociam.org/ SOCIAM
  26. ^ The Theory and Practice of Social Machines (PDF). Lecture Notes in Social Networks. 2019. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-10889-2. ISBN 978-3-030-10888-5. S2CID 61811039.
  27. ^ "PETRAS".
  28. ^ "David de Roure - Royal Northern College of Music".
  29. ^ "What's the Score at the Bodleian?".
  30. ^ Grants Awarded to Dave de Roure by the EPSRC
  31. ^ "FORCE11". 11 September 2014.
  32. ^ "UK e-Infrastructure Academic User Community Forum, September 2012". Archived from the original on 22 August 2012. Retrieved 23 August 2012.
  33. ^ "The Association for Computing Machinery".
  34. ^ "The University of Oxford".
  35. ^ "Living in the Internet of Things: Cybersecurity of the IoT - 2018". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  36. ^ "Living in the Internet of Things (IoT 2019)". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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