Alan Tully

	Position:	Lecturer
	E-mail:	Alan.Tully ncl.ac.uk
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	Mail:	School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU United Kingdom
	Office:	Room 816 , Claremont Tower

Brief Biography

Summary of experience

1976-1977 Ministry of Defence

1979-1981 University of Newcastle upon Tyne, BSc (Hons) in Electrical Engineering and Computing Science (2.1)

1982-1986 GEC Avionics, Senior Systems Engineer, Future Computing Group

1986-1991 University of Newcastle upon Tyne, PhD and Postgraduate research into fault-tolerance in real-time parallel systems, Thesis title: "Preventing State Divergence in Replicated Distributed Systems"

1991-1996 Parallel Applications Centre, Leader Real Time Systems Group

1996-2002 Detica Limited, Principal Consultant

Academic interests

Pervasive computing, ad-hoc networks and wireless sensor networks, distributed computing, parallel systems, fault-tolerance, real-time systems, object oriented design, control systems, modelling and simulation, command and information systems.

Publications

A list of publications by Alan Tully is available.

Research Groups

Alan is a member of the [ Distributed Systems ] research group(s)