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  Brian Randell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Brian Randell is a British computer scientist, specializing in research in software fault tolerance and dependability.
Randell's initial work, during 1957–1964 while he was employed at English Electric was on compilers; his work on Algol 60 is particularly known.
Randell then became Professor of Computing Science at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Brian_Randell   (207 words)

  
 Brian Randell, Computing Science, Newcastle University
In 1979 I helped found MARI (Microelectronics Applications Institute) and in 1993 I was involved in setting up the Northern Informatics Applications Agency, both of which flourished and did some excellent work for a number of years.
A list of publications by Brian Randell is available.
Brian is a member of the [ Dependability ] research group(s)
www.cs.ncl.ac.uk /people/brian.randell   (348 words)

  
 CoDe Magazine - Article: Heard on .NET Rocks!: Virtual PC and Virtual Server
Brian Randell: What most people do when they set up a virtual PC is, they take the defaults, and they like it.
Brian Randell: It's currently 16, and I forget what the Virtual server number is. The Virtual server number is much bigger, because they support virtual SCSI drives.
Brian Randell: First of all, Microsoft has its supported way to do it, which is good if you want existing servers and move them to Virtual Servers.
www.code-magazine.com /Article.aspx?quickid=0509091   (2967 words)

  
 About Brian Randell
Brian A. Randell is a senior consultant with MCW Technologies, LLC.
Brian spends his time between teaching Microsoft.NET -based technologies to developers, working with new and emerging technologies like Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio Team System, and consulting worldwide for clients such as Microsoft, American Honda, DELL, and others.
Brian enjoys helping people get the most out of their software.
www.pluralsight.com /brian.aspx   (147 words)

  
 The Risks Digest Volume 9: Issue 27
Brian writes: >Ideally, deployment of any potentially risky computer-based system will be >preceded by the sort of careful assessment of the risks involved that is >typical in a number of engineering disciplines.
Brian is correct that safety margins may not useful to protect against this.
Randell here means by a "graph structure" representing the "internals" of software.
catless.ncl.ac.uk /Risks/9.27.html   (2639 words)

  
 AddressOf.com : VB Upgrade Tour (Follow-up)
Well, first things first, it was great to see Brian Randell again and his presentation skills were excellent.
It turns out that in addition to the public presentation, Brian was doing a several day class on the subject at the Microsoft campus in Dallas and, through our discussions, that training includes most of what I was suggesting.
Brian Randell is a good lecturer on the subject.
addressof.com /blog/archive/2005/09/27/8303.aspx   (1000 words)

  
 MAFTIA
Brian Randell and Robert Stroud were the principal researchers at Newcastle.
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.
www.maftia.org /people/randell.htm   (249 words)

  
 ScottD's Musings : One of my favorite speakers is coming to Dallas!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
I have been a huge fan of Brian Randell, VB MVP and Senior Consultant with MCW Technologies, since I first saw him at TechEd '99, I believe.
Brian’s been using Visual Basic since version 2.0 and has spent the last 18 years building solutions and helping developers learn how to do it themselves.
Brian will show you how much fun and productive development is with Visual Basic 2005 is and give you the straight answers on how you can move up from Visual Basic 6.0.
weblogs.asp.net /scottdockendorf/archive/2005/08/22/423270.aspx   (387 words)

  
 Banquet speech, ITiCSE 2002
Brian Randell did a nice job of putting the website together.
The editors of the Proceedings of the 1968 conference were Peter Naur and Brian Randell.
Brian Randell and Peter produced the report of that conference, which is different from almost any proceedings you see.
www.cs.cornell.edu /gries/banquets/iticse2002/iticse2002.html   (3212 words)

  
 MSDN Blogs - Blogs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
She has a great blog that talks all about the recruiting pipeline with a specific...
Paul Vick, Language Designer on the VB team, discusses arrays with non-zero lower bounds...
Brian heads there (Disneyworld in his case) this weekend, the site manager for C#, Amy, is going to Disneyland this weekend....
blogs.msdn.com /default.aspx?PageIndex=3533   (1337 words)

  
 VSLive! The premier conference for Visual Studio .NET developers
Brian and Ken will lead you on a roller coaster ride through as many.NET features as they can fit into a single application, in a single day.
Brian A. Randell teaches Microsoft.NET curriculum using Visual Basic.NET and C# for DevelopMentor.
When not teaching, Brian works as a Senior Consultant with MCW Technologies, a Microsoft Certified Partner, specializing in custom application development with Microsoft.NET, SQL Server, and the Microsoft Office family of products.
www.ftponline.com /conferences/vslive/2006/sf/ws-getzrandell.aspx   (1053 words)

  
 DBLP: Brian Randell
Jie Xu, Brian Randell, Alexander B. Romanovsky, Robert J. Stroud, Avelino F. Zorzo, Ercument Canver, Friedrich W. von Henke: Rigorous Development of an Embedded Fault-Tolerant System Based on Coordinated Atomic Actions.
Brian Randell, John E. Dobson: Reliability and Security Issues in Distributed Computing Systems.
Brian Randell: Certification of Algorithm 50: Inverse of a finite segment of the Hilbert matrix.
www.informatik.uni-trier.de /~ley/db/indices/a-tree/r/Randell:Brian.html   (904 words)

  
 Business at war -- Randell et al. 41 (6): 23 -- ITNOW
Brian Randell, FBCS, CEng is professor of computing science at Newcastle University and director of European Union research projects.
Brian Gladman has led work on computing and communications in the UK Ministry of Defence and NATO.
Ralph Benjamin and Brian Gladman outline the threats and the
itnow.oxfordjournals.org /cgi/content/abstract/41/6/23   (202 words)

  
 The Risks Digest Volume 21: Issue 19   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Brian Randell Tue, 9 Jan 2001 10:16:27 +0000
There is an article in today's Guardian starting: "Tough new security checks are to be imposed at nuclear power stations after a guard employed to protect the station attempted to sabotage the site's computers.
The full text is at http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/nuclear Brian Randell Dept.
safariexamples.informit.com /0130464163/maillists/risks/21.19.html   (3230 words)

  
 .NET Rocks!
Brian Randell on Microsoft Virtual PC We thought we were going to cover a lot of topics in this episode of Dot Net Rocks, but we managed to go over an hour without straying from Virtual PC at all.
Over the last 19 years, Brian has worked with companies and their developers to help the create solutions that leverage various Microsoft technologies.
From RPG and COBOL and HP 3000 minis to Paradox for DOS to the world of Windows, Brian has worked on a variety of projects and systems to give him a broad perspective to help educate and empower developers.
www.dotnetrocks.com /default.aspx?showID=115   (393 words)

  
 bios
Brian A. Randell is an instructor & researcher at DevelopMentor.
Brian is a co-author of Effective Visual Basic form Addison-Wesley and a widely recognized speaker at events like Microsoft Tech Ed.
When not speaking and training, Brian works as a senior consultant with MCW Technologies, a Microsoft Solution Provider specializing in custom application development with Visual Basic, SQL Server, and the Microsoft Office family of products.
www.develop.com /uk/events/bios.aspx   (139 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Subject: Viper and its Formal Verification Date: Mon, 9 Jul 90 9:37:15 BST The RSRE Viper microprocessor and Avra Cohn's report on its formal verification, have been discussed earlier in RISKs.
Brian Randell, Computing Laboratory, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK USER THREATENS COURT ACTION OVER MoD CHIP The first commercial user of the Viper safety-critical chip developed by the Ministry of Defence is threatening legal action for alleged misrepresentation.
The MoD says, "No Viper chip is known to have failed, but work is continuing to reinforce and improve verification techniques: on Viper, and that *although there are not known faults in the Viper design, an unremitting search for weakness must continue".
www.cl.cam.ac.uk /~mjcg/Teaching/SpecVer2/Notes/ComputerWeekly   (661 words)

  
 The Risks Digest Volume 10: Issue 31   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Brian Randell Wed, 5 Sep 90 13:50:34 BST
Brian Randell, Computing Laboratory, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK PHONE = +44 91 222 7923 [Further excerpted by PGN] A train driver who admitted passing through a red light and causing the Purley rail crash, in which five people died and 87 were injured, was jailed yesterday.
Robert Morgan 47, was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment, 12 months of which was suspended, after pleading guilty to two charges of manslaughter.
safariexamples.informit.com /0130464163/maillists/risks/10.31.html   (3594 words)

  
 The Risks Digest Volume 14: Issue 65
The urgency of introducing the new system was highlighted last month in a letter to Flight International in which a pilot said that air communications between the Far East and Eastern Europe were so bad because of high demand and old equipment that an accident appeared inevitable.
Brian Randell Wed, 26 May 1993 15:50:41 +0100
Hackers given six months for 'intellectual joyriding' The Independent, 22 May 1993, STEPHEN WARD TWO COMPUTER hackers given six-month prison sentences yesterday were the first to be jailed under legislation, passed in 1990, to outlaw the practice.
catless.ncl.ac.uk /Risks/14.65.html   (3116 words)

  
 brian randell - ResearchIndex document query
Brian Randell is a professor of computing science at the
Universita di Genova, 16132 Genova, Italy and brian randell Department of Computing Science, University
Little, Juergen Nehmer and his research group, Brian Randell, Marc Shapiro, Paul Watson and Jie Xu.
citeseer.ist.psu.edu /cis?q=Brian+Randell   (520 words)

  
 [No title]
From: Brian.Randell@newcastle.ac.uk (Brian Randell) Dave: Over a period of about a week, the Guardian newspaper here ran an interesting series of articles intended to explain the Internet (really WWW) to the general public.
They invited a number of well-known people who were quite new to the net ('net virgins") in for a 3 hour trial session, and commissioned each to write about their experiences.
Cheers Brian ==== RICHARD CURTIS, creator of Blackadder, discovers a great way to waste time.
www.eff.org /Net_culture/curtis_on_inet.article.txt   (1192 words)

  
 Win-Dev 2004 — Speakers
Peter received a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Colorado State University and holds both MCSD certification in both.NET and C++.
Brian teaches Microsoft.NET curriculum using Visual Basic.NET and C# for DevelopMentor.
Brent is president and founder of Wise Owl Consulting with over three decades experience in software development.
www.butrain.com /windev/bios.asp   (3179 words)

  
 InformationWeek.com
Historically, that has required writing voluminous code to download relevant business rules to a user's PC that can be enforced when offline.
Bit by bit, Microsoft is fleshing out its knowledge-management strategy with developer tools for linking Office productivity apps, its Exchange messaging platform, and back-end business data.
Says Randell, "They did it in typical Microsoft fashion--let's take something complicated and try to simplify it."
www.informationweek.com /758/grizzly.htm   (381 words)

  
 Microsoft Adds SQL Tool To Office 2000 - Technology News by TechWeb
That's important as Microsoft's customers build Web applications on intranets and extranets, enlisting millions of Visual Basic developers who aren't always familiar with writing to the enterprise SQL product, said Microsoft product manager Benzi Ronen.
Bit by bit, Microsoft is fleshing out its knowledge-management strategy with developer tools for linking Office productivity apps, its Exchange messaging platform, and back-end corporate data.
"They did it in typical Microsoft fashion," Randell said.
www.techweb.com /wire/story/TWB19991019S0003   (219 words)

  
 Brian Randell On Microsoft Virtual PC : thincomputing.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Brian Randell On Microsoft Virtual PC : thincomputing.net
Brain Randell explains the advantages and disadvantages of Virtual PC and Virtual Server, warns you of some potential pitfalls, and shows you how you can boost performance.
This is a must-listen show for anyone who isn't already an expert in Virtual PC or Virtual Server.
www.thincomputing.net /print.php?news.535   (62 words)

  
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Scanned from P. Naur and B. Randell, "Software Engineering, Report on a conference sponsored by the NATO Science Committee, Garmisch, Germany, 7th to 11th October 1968", Scientific Affairs Division, NATO, Brussels, 1969, 138-155.
Isolated misprints in the original have been corrected, and a hodge-podge of English and American spellings has been resolved in favor of American.
On-line searching may not be the right answer yet.
www.cs.dartmouth.edu /~doug/components.txt   (5371 words)

  
 FTPOnline - VSLive! Orlando 2004 - New Tools in Visual Studio 2005 Team System
Visual Studio 2005 Team System is an extensible lifecycle tools platform that helps software teams collaborate to reduce the complexity of delivering modern service-oriented solutions.
Orlando session, Brian Randell, a senior consultant with MCW Technologies, introduced the new tools and covered how you can use them to build solutions whether you're a team of one or in a team of 100.
This session covered the new Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Designer, the new Class Designer, unit testing, project management, and source code control.
www.ftponline.com /vsm/2004_en/magazine/online/randell   (122 words)

  
 Comments on Cryptography of Wassenaar
Another interesting bit: Note 2 Category 5 - Part 2 does not control products when accompanying their user for the user's personal use.
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 15:59:10 +0000 To: ukcrypto@maillist.ox.ac.uk From: Brian Randell Subject: Re: http://www.dti.gov.uk/export.control/ Hi Martin: At 2:34 pm +0000 10/12/98, Martin Hamilton wrote: [Snip; see preceding message.] I trust that the rules about "open source software", as given at http://www.opensource.org/osd.html e.g.
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 17:14:47 +0000 To: ukcrypto@maillist.ox.ac.uk From: Nicholas Bohm Subject: Re: http://www.dti.gov.uk/export.control/ At 03:59 PM 12/10/1998 +0000, Brian Randell wrote: [Snip; see preceding message.] The rules you quote are not "restrictions upon...
cryptome.sabotage.org /wass-talk.htm   (2559 words)

  
 DBLP: Alexander Romanovsky
Jörg Kienzle, Alexander B. Romanovsky: Framework based on design patterns for providing persistence in object-oriented programming languages.
Ian Welch, Robert J. Stroud, Alexander B. Romanovsky: Aspects of Exceptions at the Meta-level.
Delano M. Beder, Alexander B. Romanovsky, Brian Randell, C.
acm.org /sigmod/dblp/db/indices/a-tree/r/Romanovsky:Alexander.html   (1774 words)

  
 Effective Visual Basic by Joe Hummel, Ted Pattison, Justin Gehtland, Doug Turnure, Brian A. Randell, Jason Masterman, ...
Effective Visual Basic by Joe Hummel, Ted Pattison, Justin Gehtland, Doug Turnure, Brian A. Randell, Jason Masterman, Brian Randell, New, Used Books, Cheap Prices, ISBN 0201704765
By: Joe Hummel Ted Pattison Justin Gehtland Doug Turnure Brian A. Randell Jason Masterman Brian Randell
All such content is provided to you "as is." this content and your use of it are subject to change and/or removal at any time.
www.bookfinder4u.com /detail/0201704765.html   (365 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
MCW members continue to speak at many industry conferences and user groups:
Brian Randell will be speaking at Microsoft Tech Ed 2006 in Boston June 11 to 16.
Ken Getz and Brian Randell will be speaking at VSLive (in Las Vegas) the week of June 21 to 24
www.mcwtech.com   (209 words)

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