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Dr Paul Robinson is a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat and Leads the JBoss Developer team who provide Red Hat’s Middleware developer programme. Paul is also a Visiting Fellow at the University. Paul has lead the Enterprise Distributed Computing coursework for over 10 years. He also supervises students for their Masters dissertation through industrial placements at Red Hat.

Hugo Firth is a third year PhD student with the Digital Insitute who has studied at Newcastle University since 2010. Hugo has previously worked as a web developer, and is currently conducting research into horizontally scalable databases.

Sami Alajrami is a third year PhD student who has obtained his Masters (ITEC) in 2012 with Distinction. Sami is currently conducting research into using cloud-based software process enactment.

Ioannis Sfyrakis is a third year PhD student who obtained his Masters (ACS) in 2012 with Distinction.

Saleh Mohamed is a first year PhD student with the Centre for Doctoral Training in Cloud Computing for Big Data and is currently researching on distributed run-time infrastructure for Internet of Things (IoT). He previously received his MSc in Computer Science (Cloud Computing) from Newcastle University.

Peter Michalak graduated with a bachelor degree in Computer Engineering from University of Zilina, Slovakia and a double degree in Software Engineering from University of Jyväskylä, Finland. After his studies he worked as a Software developer in Tieto Finland Oy, an IT company, in R&D department developing Telco grade cloud solutions. Currently, Peter is a PhD student in CDT Cloud Computing for Big Data, Digital Institute at Newcastle University, with focus on distributed stream management systems for healthcare data.

Demonstrators will be available in your cluster rooms during all practical sessions. You should go and see them if you are having any difficulties. This includes understanding what you have to do.

Discussion Boards will also be available for CSC8104 in Blackboard (http://bb.ncl.ac.uk). You may post any questions about the tutorial or coursework assignment here, and the discussion boards will be monitored by Course Demonstrators. Before posting you should use the discussion boards' search facilities to see if somebody has already encountered the same problem.