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Peter joined the Appliance Studio from Hewlett-Packard's
Corporate Research Labs (HP Labs) in September 2000. He is a leading
advocate of the appliance philosophy, and especially the importance
of good interaction design. He is a regular leader of the company's
research/development teams, and contributes directly to the work
himself.
At HP, Peter was a leading member of the information
appliance research and design team. He worked on the development
of JetSend – a device-to-device communications protocol enabling
devices normally thought of as computer peripherals (printers,
scanners, digital cameras), to communicate directly as peers. He
is named as inventor on a number of patent applications in this
and other fields. The JetSend protocol is now included in many
HP products.
Prior to joining HP, Peter was a post-graduate researcher
at the University of the West of England's Centre for Personal
Information Management. His primary research was into the automatic
summarization of video for improved navigation and browsing. Peter
was awarded a PhD in 1998. He is author on a number of publications
in this and other areas.
In addition to his PhD, Peter gained an M.Sc.
in Signal Processing and Machine Intelligence from the University
of Surrey, and a B.Eng. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
(UMIST). He is named as inventor on several patents, has co-authored
a number of research papers in the disciplines important to information
appliances, and contributed chapters to two current books.
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