Mr Mike Griffiths

Lecturer
Location: MH209
E: m.p.griffiths@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1793 785737
Informatics and Systems Engineering


Current activities

Teaching:

  • IMT, IIS(ET): Introductions to hardware and software
  • IMT: Software Engineering module manager
  • Forensic Computing: Systems Programming module manager.

Research and development:

Committee membership:

  • Academic Computer Users Committee
  • Specialist Academic Computing Systems Working Group
  • Information Systems Programme MSc Course Committee
  • Joint Mathematics MSc Course Committee
  • DISE Performance Improvement Committee.

Background

  • Awarded a BSc in Physics from Exeter University in 1975
  • After graduating he joined the Ministry of Defence at the Signals Research and Development Establishment, Dorset where he worked on Combat Net Radio and the application of microprocessors to the management of a mobile area communications system
  • He moved to RSRE Malvern in 1977, spending his time researching into the use of multiple microprocessor systems in a mobile telephone network
  • He took up his present post as lecturer in what was then Computing Science Group at RMCS in 1984, where he taught programming, Operating Systems and Distributed Computing to undergraduate and postgraduate courses
  • In 1988 he spent 6 months at the California Institute of Technology, investigating the use of Ada on parallel machines
  • His research interests are still in the area of parallel and distributed computing, with particular emphasis on web applications
  • He currently has responsibility for the research IT infrastructure in the Department of Informatics and Systems Engineering.

 

Qualifications:

BSc Physics (Exon) 1975

Selected publications

M Griffiths, R Witty, Automatic Glossary Construction, Department of Information Systems Technical Report No 1, DCMT, 2006