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Dr. Reuben Edwards
United Kingdom

Reuben is a lecturer in the Department of Communication Systems at Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK and a member of a group of mobile researchers at Lancaster University, called the Mobile Radicals (www.mobileradicals.com/). His primary areas of interest are in developing mobile applications and systems that have social and/or business benefits and proof-of-concept applications.

Reuben is also currently the Principal of one of Lancaster's nine Colleges, the Chair of Lancaster University Alumni Association, and an executive director of m-ventions ltd.
Reuben is currently working a number of novel applications: Cross-platform Bluetooth Proximity Games (Mobslinger and Vampires), commercial java applications (including bluetooth air hockey, msomnia, seal cull, and mash-a-mate), and business productivity and intelligence applications, including a bluteooth sniffing application which has so-far produced over 100,000 data points recording mobile activities of over 3,000 devices within Lancaster University.
Other work includes extensive research on Mobile Security, social applications, mobile education, etc. A more complete selection is described at www.mobileradicals.com/ and a list of recent publications can be found at www.mobileradicals.com/index.php/Publications_since_2000.

Development Areas of Interest

Mobile platforms

Symbian, Windows Mobile, J2ME, FlashLite

Application categories

Games, m-business, m-commerce, m-learning

Programming languages

C, C++, Java, Python, C#, VB, VBA, .NET, PHP

Integrated development environments (IDEs)

Visual Studio, Codewarrior, NetBeans

Wireless device technologies

Bluetooth, GPS, GPRS, RFID, NFC

Personal Competencies

Mobile competencies

Application development exploiting “mobile” nature of devices.

Forum Nokia Discussion Board user name

egarce

Other competencies

PC development using a variety of programming languages, tools, and SDKs. Development of educational courses on various aspects business and IT.

Main Achievements

Books and other publications

www.mobileradicals.com/index.php/Publications_since_2000

Hosted Web pages

www.mobileradicals.com
www.pac-lan.com
www.thetxtbk.com
www.lancs.ac.uk
www.dcs.lancs.ac.uk

Contact Information

E-mail address:

r.edwardsATlancaster.ac.uk

Personal Web pages

www.reubenedwards.com

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