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Peter Kirstein
Also published under: P. T. Kirstein, P. Kirstein, Peter T. Kirstein
Affiliation
University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain
Biography
Peter Kirstein received his B.A. in mathematics and mechanical science from Cambridge University, his Ph.D. from Stanford University, and D.Sc. from the University of London. After short spells as a lecturer at Stanford University, an accelerator physicist at CERN (Geneva), and Scientific Representative for the U.S. GE (in Zurich), he returned to the United Kingdom, where he is a professor of computer communications systems. For 35 years he led the Computer Networks research group at University College London, and was the first head of its Department of Computer Science for 15 years. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Physics, the Institution of Electronic Technologists, a Distinguished Fellow of the Britis... Author's Published Works