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!