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Alasdair Allan

University of Exeter and Babilim Light Industries
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Alasdair Allan is a senior research fellow in Astronomy at the University of Exeter, where he leads the development of closed loop autonomous systems for transient event follow-up. As part of the eSTAR Project he is building a peer-to-peer distributed network of telescopes which, acting autonomously, will reactively schedule observations of time-critical events. He has been the lead, and co-author, on several astronomical software standards and has been the senior editor of two conference proceedings on heterogeneous telescope networks. On the side Alasdair runs a small technology consulting business writing bespoke software and building open hardware, and is currently developing a series of iPhone applications to monitor and manage cloud based services.

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I live blogged (link: http://www.dailyack.com/2009/03/etech-tuesday-morning-keynotes.html) the Tuesday morning keynote, including this talk.
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I live blogged (link: http://www.dailyack.com/2009/03/etech-tuesday-morning-keynotes.html) the Tuesday morning keynote, including this talk.
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I was live blogging this one (link: http://www.dailyack.com/2009/03/etech-your-energy-identity-and-why-you.html)
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