Alasdair Rawsthorne
was awarded a B.Sc. degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of
Southampton in 1974. After a period working in industry, designing
hardware and microcode for the ICL 2900 series of mainframes, he presently
lectures at the
Department of Computer Science at
the University of Manchester.
During a period of secondment to ACRI in France, during 1991/92, he
co-wrote (with Peter Bird) the definitive architecture definition for the
project.
His current research interests include hardware and software architectures
for parallel computer systems and binary translation systems.