Brian Randell

Brian graduated in Mathematics from Imperial College, London in 1957. After periods with English Electric and at IBM he became Professor of Computing Science at the University of Newcastle, where in 1971 he led the project that introduced the "recovery block" concept. Subsequent major developments included the Newcastle Connection, and the prototype Distributed Secure System.

He has since led a long succession of research projects in reliability and security. Most recently he has been Project Director of the ESPRIT LTR Project on Design for Validation, and the ESPRIT Network of Excellence on Distributed Computing Systems Architectures. He has published nearly two hundred technical papers and reports, and is co-author or editor of seven books.