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John
R. Williams
Professor of Information Engineering,
Civil
and Environmental Engineering,
and Engineering Systems
Director, Auto-ID
Laboratory
Dr.
Williams holds a BA in physics from
Oxford University, a MS in physics
from UCLA and a Ph.D. from Swansea
University. His area of specialty
is large scale computer analysis applied
to both physical systems and to information.
Dr.
Williams is internationally recognized
in the field of computational algorithms
for large-scale particle simulators
and has authored two books and over
100 publications. For the past eight
years, his research has focused on
architecting of large scale distributed
simulation systems. He teaches graduate
courses on Modern Software Development
and on Web System Architecting
Presently
Dr. Williams is Director of MIT's
Auto-ID Laboratory that is architecting
“The Internet of Things”.
He was recently named, alongside Bill
Gates and Larry Ellison, as one of
the 50 most powerful people in Computer
Networks. He serves on the Architectural
Review Committee for EPCglobal Inc.
and is Co-Director of the global alliance
of Auto-ID Laboratories. He is project
leader of the Grid/Agent Computing
Program whose goal is to develop distributed
systems that simulate the U.S. critical
infrastructure. He is involved in
a number of other projects for industry,
including developing RFID sensor networks
for Kajima Corporation and E-Educational
software for Microsoft via their I-Campus
Program.
Dr.
Williams’ analysis software
system is licensed by Sandia National
Laboratories and petroleum companies
and his E-Education software is licensed
by over 400 institutions in the US,
Europe and Japan. Recent papers on
the InkBoard collaboration software
for the Tablet PC have won best paper
prizes in conferences and generated
press reports in US News and World
Report, CNN, and the Boston Globe.
Dr.
Williams is on the editorial advisory
board for the International Journal
for Computer-Aided Engineering and
Software and an active member of ASCE,
where he is a member of the Committee
for Granular Materials. Dr. Williams
consults to companies in the U.S.,
U.K., Ireland, and Japan and has spent
much time in Japan collaborating with
the University of Osaka, Aoyama University,
and Keio University, on the use of
educational technology.
News
and announcements:
Books
Published by John R. Williams
New
Book on RFID Technology Co-Edited
by Professor John R. Williams
(June 14, 2008)
Prof.
John Williams delivers keynote at
Microsoft's ReMix '07 (October
10, 2007)
John
Williams featured in RFID Journal
(February 3, 2006)
Auto-ID
Lab in the News (September
9, 2005)
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