Acknowledgments
This book is a personal account, not the result of a committee process. Many people have helped me write this book, an even larger number have helped to shape the ideas presented.
I first became interested in computer networking as an undergraduate at Southampton University where Denis Nicole my third year project supervisor and Professor Tony Hey got me interested in massively parallel processing systems and the Transputer.
My interest in the Transputer and the formal methods on which its design is based took me to the Nuclear Physics Laboratory at Oxford University. Large scale physics experiments need large computers. Working with my thesis supervisors Ian McArthur and Robin Devenish on the ZEUS experiment taught me a lot about ...
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