I am the Marconi Professor of Communications Systems in the Computer Lab, at the University of Cambridge, almost exactly 100 years after Marconi's "groundbreaking" first transatlantic wireless call, and i am a fellow of Wolfson College Until the end of September 2001, i was a professor in the Department of Computer Science University College London. i graduated in Physics from Trinity College, Cambridge University in 1979. i got an MSc in Computing in 1981, and PhD in 1993 both from UCL. (before that i even went to primary and 2ndary school once). i'm a fellow of the ACM, ; the British Computer Society, the IE[ET] the royal academy of engineering and the IEEE. I'm a member of UCU and have been (or its equivalent) since 1979. John Crowcroft is not me, but is related, and does some fine art.