Professor Ron Summers

Ron Sum­mers is Pro­fessor of Inform­a­tion Engin­eer­ing at Lough­bor­ough Uni­ver­sity in the UK, where he is a mem­ber of the Sys­tems Divi­sion in the Depart­ment of Elec­tronic and Elec­trical Engin­eer­ing. As well as gen­eral interests in the pro­cess of know­ledge trans­fer between aca­demia and industry and vice versa, he has research interests in the applic­a­tion of open source soft­ware to the health and phar­ma­ceut­ical domains. Although his work has thus far been lim­ited to work­ing with industry in Europe, he is set to extend both the geo­graphic bound­ary and dis­cip­line bound­ary in which he works as a con­sequence of part­ner­ing with a Gov­ern­ment depart­ment on tech­no­logy roadmaps. Seen as fer­tile ground for a re-appreciation of the use of an open source approach for data col­lec­tion, pro­cessing, visu­al­isa­tion, stor­age and reser­va­tion, the issues gen­er­ated will keep him busy until at least the next XML Sum­mer School!

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