Hi,
I’m John Bush. Welcome to JunkRubber.
I am a post-doctorate researcher at the Univeristy of Strathclyde (in Glasgow, UK) and I specialise in mobile telecommunications – my personal site can be found here.
Mobile telecomms is such a vague term – I am most interested in the possibilities for wireless devices to work together. The construction of the devices and the physical transmission are both interesting, but my real passion is the User Perspective and especially the consideration that a group of devices can be more than the sum of their parts. This can be true for a single user with many devices; it can be true with many users in a social networking sense. Either way, I find the possibilities for groups of devices and their platforms absolutely fascinating.
As such, my research has touched on Personal Area Networking (and a concept called the Personal Distributed Environment), Content Management, Context Aware Services, Ubiquitous/Pervasive Servcies and Systems – all of these things and with a little bit of software agents, ontologies, MAC layer, Transport Layer, and Network Architecture thrown in for good measure.
I started this blog as an incentive and an outlet for any titbits that I find useful about:
i) The big players; the companies and their strategies. That means either what they are wanting to do, how they are organised (that tells us about their ethos and therefore a clue about what their direction might be)
ii) Issues that may influence the design of mobile devices, services, and markets
iii) Device capabilities
I may veer wildly off-topic or steer a course away from the above. I make no apologies if that happens.
Otherwise, make yourself comfortable!
