Welcome to CoreGridTechnologies

Prof Mark Baker is a hardworking researcher in Distributed Systems at the University of Reading. Mark has resided in the relative safety of academic since leaving the British Merchant Navy, where he was a navigating officer, in the early 1980's. Mark has held posts at various universities, including Cardiff, Edinburgh, Syracuse, Edinburgh and Portsmouth. Mark has a number of geek-like interests, which his research group at Reading help him pursue. These include wide-area resource monitoring, messaging systems for parallel and wide-area applications, middleware such as information and security services, as well as performance evaluation, and modelling of computer systems.

Mark's non-academic interests include squash (getting to old), DIY (he may one day finish his house off), reading (far to may science fiction books), keeping the garden ship-shape, and a beer or two to reduce the pain of the aforementioned activities.

Dr. Maozhen Li is currently a Lecturer in School of Engineering and Design, in the subject area of Electronic and Computer Engineering, at Brunel University, UK. From Jan. 1999 to Jan. 2002, Dr. Li was a Research Associate in Department of Computer Science, Cardiff University, UK. Dr. Li received the PhD degree in 1997, from Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. Dr. Li's research interests are in the areas of the Grid, problem solving environments for large-scale simulations, software agent for semantic information retrieval, multi-modal user interface design, computer supported for cooperative work. Since 1997, Dr. Li has published 30 research papers in international journals and conferences.