Keith Sibson
	Background I received my first class honors degree from the University of St Andrews, Scotland, in 1996, majoring in Computer Science. From there I moved to the Computing Science Department at the University of Glasgow to pursue a doctoral degree (Ph.D.), which I received in 2001. Currently I work for a small financial company in Austin, Texas.
	Research My Ph.D. research concentrated on the failure properties of Web, and how to deal with them at the programming language level. I developed a programming language called Focus, the aim of which is to enable concise and intuitive expression of failure semantics in the context of concurrency. Focus is the first language to achieve a clean integration of Web domain concepts, failure interpretation, concurrency, and a mechanism for flow of control after failure. You can read the abstract of my thesis, or the whole document.
	Publications Paradigms for Global Computation - an Overview of the Hippo Project, by Richard Connor and Keith Sibson was presented at the Workshop on Internet Programming as part of ICCL'98. This paper is available in Word 97, HTML, and Postscript formats. I presented HCL - a Language for Internet Data Acquisition, by Richard Connor and Keith Sibson at the Workshop on Internet Programming as part of ICCL'98. This paper is availble in Word 97, HTML, and Postscript formats. On the Unification of Persistent Programming and the World-Wide Web by Richard Connor, Keith Sibson, and Paolo Manghi was presented at the Workshop on the Web and databases as part of the EDBT'98 conference and is published in LNCS 1590. Available in Word 97, HTML, and Postscript formats. I presented Implementing Flexible Failure Semantics when Programming the Web by Keith Sibson and Richard Connor at the 1st International Conference on Internet Computation (IC'2000), in Las Vegas, June 26th 2000, and is published in the proceedings. Available here in [Word 97] and [Postcript] formats.
	Interests Reading, travel, fine dining, expensive cocktails, scuba diving, playing with my cat. Actual content coming soon - I assure you that I really am an interesting guy.
	Pictures My friend Charly in his natural pose. Futeh after playing basketball for two minutes. Giles being loud. Sara by the pool, and in Grand Cayman. You can contact me by sending an email to anybody at keithsibson.com