1. Jonathan Andrew Crowcroft was born on 23 November 1957 and is the Marconi Professor of Communications Systems in the Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge, a visiting professor at the Department of Computing at Imperial College London, and the chair of the programme committee at the Alan Turing Institute.
Jon Crowcroft then gained a Master of Science degree in computing in 1981 and PhD in 1993, both from University College London.
Jon Crowcroft joined the University of Cambridge in 2001, prior to which he was Professor of Networked Systems at University College London in the Computer Science Department.
Jon Crowcroft has been a member of the Scientific Council of IMDEA Networks Institute since 2007.
Jon Crowcroft served on the advisory board of Max Planck Institute for Software Systems.
Jon Crowcroft has done research in theoretical network science, particularly in the area of Turing switches, and he has suggested to replace general-purpose computers acting as network switches with specially-built hardware dedicated to packet switching, as well as using optical technology for the same purpose.
Jon Crowcroft was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2013.
Professor Jon Crowcroft is distinguished for his many seminal contributions to the development of the Internet.
Jon Crowcroft was elected an ACM Fellow in 2003, a chartered fellow of the British Computer Society, a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, as well as a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2004.
Jon Crowcroft served as general chair for the ACM SIGCOMM conference between 1995 and 1999, and received the SIGCOMM Award in 2009.