David Prior

David Prior

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As a specialist in transformative technology, my passion lies in exploring, inventing…

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مقالات David

  • Causal Meshes and Supply Chain Resilience
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    Causal Meshes and Supply Chain Resilience

    With global operations come global supply chains. Increasingly complex, interconnected operations that are more…

  • Fabrics and Threads for Contextual Awareness
    ٢١ يوليو ٢٠١٩

    Fabrics and Threads for Contextual Awareness

    [Originally published in Crisis Response Journal, November 2018] Henry David Thoreau wrote: it’s not what you look at…

  • Big Data and Analytics for Humanitarian Operations
    ٢١ يوليو ٢٠١٩

    Big Data and Analytics for Humanitarian Operations

    [Originally published in Crisis Response Journal 13.4 (July 2018)] There is seemingly a good reason why parts of the…

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  • Will Smart Cities Dream of Resilience?
    ٢٨ يونيو ٢٠١٦

    Will Smart Cities Dream of Resilience?

    1993. The Simpsons: series four, episode twelve.

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  • Practical Integrations for Sentient Cities
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    Practical Integrations for Sentient Cities

    09, 10, and 21 October 2014: Integrated end-to-end demonstrations of technology fusing Internet of Things and Smart…

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الإسهامات

النشاط

الخبرة

  • رسم بياني Carnet Systems DMCC

    Carnet Systems DMCC

    Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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    London and Dubai

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    London, United Kingdom

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    Dubai, UAE

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    Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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التعليم

  • رسم بياني Aberystwyth University

    University of Wales, Aberystwyth

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    الأنشطة والجمعيات:Technical theatre crew (lighting, sound, sets for productions)

    10 'O' Levels, 1 'A/O' Level, 3 'A' Levels

الخبرات التطوعية

  • Entrepreneurship Advisor to KTN Student Teams

    UK Knowledge Transfer Network

    ⁩ - الحالي 8 عام 10 شهر

    Science and Technology

    Provided advice and guidance to budding student entrepreneurs.

  • Technology Advisor

    Various Global Startups - Entertainment, Services, and More!

    ⁩ - الحالي 14 عام 10 شهر

    Science and Technology

    I provide ad-hoc mentorship and technical guidance to startup founders worldwide.

المنشورات

  • Big Data and Analytics for Humanitarian Logistics

    Crisis Response Journal 13:4

    Discussing the potential to apply commercial world developments in Big Data and Analytics to the challenges around humanitarian logistics.

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  • Will Smart Cities Dream of Resilience?

    Crisis Response Journal (Issue 11.2)

    According to David Prior, the biggest vulnerability of the move towards Smart Cities is simply that it is being addressed as a series of silos without reference to the other systems each silo interacts with and is influenced by.

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  • Cybersecurity and the Humanitarian Sector

    Crisis Response Journal (Issue 10:3)

    “I can hear the voices already: Why would anyone want to attack us? We’re the good guys, the ones trying to rescue people, help them to recover and give them a better life? Surely we can’t be a target?” But, warns David Prior, most cyber attackers – nation state or criminal alike – do not care whether you are a humanitarian or rescue operation. Traditional protections do not, and will not, apply in the cyber domain.

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  • Real-time tools for situational awareness and emergency management in transport infrastructures

    Int. J. of Mobile Network Design and Innovation, 2014 Vol.5, No.4, pp.222 - 237 (Inderscience)

    Critical transport infrastructures such as interchanges, long tunnels and bridges represent the most vulnerable environments within a transportation network; they are characterised by limited access/egress points and high volumes of users in close confines. A number of factors must be addressed to ensure maximum safety of both travellers and emergency service personnel; these include emergency preparedness, timely support for the decision-making process, and planning of optimal interventions in…

    Critical transport infrastructures such as interchanges, long tunnels and bridges represent the most vulnerable environments within a transportation network; they are characterised by limited access/egress points and high volumes of users in close confines. A number of factors must be addressed to ensure maximum safety of both travellers and emergency service personnel; these include emergency preparedness, timely support for the decision-making process, and planning of optimal interventions in emergency management situations. This paper discusses the integration of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and virtual reality (VR) to support the self-evacuation of travellers and operational procedures of rescue personnel within these environments, focusing on two key aspects of emergency operations: 1) collecting real-time data; 2) improving the timeliness of first responders through efficient provision of the collected data. Testimonials, technical results and recommendations collated from two pilot installations realised within the EU-funded SAVE ME project demonstrate the qualitative and quantitative impact of such an approach on emergency situation management.

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  • Exploitation of wireless sensor data in virtual reality for the provision of comprehensive support to tunnel safety training and emergency management

    RSS2013: 4th International Conference on Road Safety and Simulation

    Twenty years of tunnel incidents have produced more than 700 victims worldwide. In Europe alone, there have been more than 60 road accidents in tunnels. Major tunnels are not immune: Mont Blanc (March 1999), Tauern (May 1999), and Saint Gotthard (October 2001), produced 62 deaths and multiple injuries.

    Despite structural and safety systems improvements, a number of factors must be addressed to ensure maximum safety. Factors include preparedness, timely support to the decision-making…

    Twenty years of tunnel incidents have produced more than 700 victims worldwide. In Europe alone, there have been more than 60 road accidents in tunnels. Major tunnels are not immune: Mont Blanc (March 1999), Tauern (May 1999), and Saint Gotthard (October 2001), produced 62 deaths and multiple injuries.

    Despite structural and safety systems improvements, a number of factors must be addressed to ensure maximum safety. Factors include preparedness, timely support to the decision-making process, and planning optimal interventions in emergency management situations. This paper discusses the integration of wireless sensor networks (WSN) and virtual reality (VR) for through-life support to tunnel safety and emergency operations management.

    A WSN system designed for roadside applications is employed for environmental and traffic monitoring, event detection, and indoor localization. Data from the WSN is passed to a VR application. The VR application provides a 1:1 scale 3D model of the locale; allowing the injection and visualisation of detected events, locations, and other relevant information to support training and emergency situations.

    The modules presented were implemented and tested during the EU FP7 project SAVEME, which developed a system to detect incidents in transportation hubs and to support optimal evacuation guidance for multiple differently-abled travellers. For tunnel-specific challenges, SAVEME collaborated with the Gotthard Tunnel, CNVVF (Italian National Fire Brigade), and ANAS (Italian National Road Company). Testimonials and results obtained during training and live trials indicate how such a system can improve timeliness and provide responders with valuable additional capabilities in the event of an emergency.

    Keywords: wireless sensor networks, virtual reality, tunnel safety, roadside applications, evacuation process simulation

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  • Beyond Sept. 11 - A Special Report (Contribution to)

    Carrier Hotels, Inc.

    A month after the terrorist attacks on America, the fallout from Sept. 11 is rippling through the data center and colocation industry.

    The attacks on New York and Washington have prompted a nationwide surge in interest in disaster recovery services, and have boosted demand for data center space in the New York market.
    But a dramatic slowdown in corporate spending has hurt struggling providers who hoped strong sales efforts could fix their financial woes. This realization has…

    A month after the terrorist attacks on America, the fallout from Sept. 11 is rippling through the data center and colocation industry.

    The attacks on New York and Washington have prompted a nationwide surge in interest in disaster recovery services, and have boosted demand for data center space in the New York market.
    But a dramatic slowdown in corporate spending has hurt struggling providers who hoped strong sales efforts could fix their financial woes. This realization has accelerated cutbacks and led several companies to consolidate their data center networks.

    The additional inventory of built-out facilities coming onto the market has exacerbated a glut of available data center space, adding to the challenge of leasing large chunks of unfinished shell space.

    To assess the state of the industry and the economy, CarrierHotels.com gathered analysis from a cross-section of industry veterans, which are summarized in this special report.
    The overall forecast: more tough times ahead, with pockets of promise.

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    • Rich Miller
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  • The Bandwidth Gap

    PBI Media / Tarifica

    This is a reference to a very (well, in Internet terms at least!) old publication. PBI Media no longer exists as a business and has, I believe, changed its name to Access Intelligence following a number of B2B acquisitions.

    Extract:

    The bandwidth gap exists because, as Herbert Simon inferred: "What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention." With more and more information…

    This is a reference to a very (well, in Internet terms at least!) old publication. PBI Media no longer exists as a business and has, I believe, changed its name to Access Intelligence following a number of B2B acquisitions.

    Extract:

    The bandwidth gap exists because, as Herbert Simon inferred: "What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention." With more and more information available, in more and more complex forms, the attention window gets smaller. The logical requirement from a user perspective is faster, more reliable, and more contextual delivery of information.

    The economic model of supply and demand is, perhaps for the first time, driven by human desire as a result of the sociological aspects of the network. The impact on the economics of the network is one of inversion. "Supply curves slope down instead of up and demand curves slope up instead of down," says Paul Krugman of MIT.

    Coupling this effect with the sociology of a self-organizing network -- that is itself subject to multiple dynamic influences -- creates an environment in which the demand for improved access is relentless. This physical demand, in conjunction with load dynamics, creates a spiralling cycle of offered load. More importantly, from a provider perspective, this demand dramatically influences the nature of topological load in the network core.

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  • netpressure.com

    The Phillips Group (PBI Media) / Tarifica

    This is a reference to a very (well, in Internet terms at least!) old publication. PBI Media no longer exists as a business and has, I believe, changed its name to Access Intelligence following a number of B2B acquisitions.

    Extract:

    netpressure.com was written in the heady days of 1999 - a short while before the (first) dotcom bust. The report endeavoured to provide telecom executives with a much-needed potted Internet history followed by some extrapolations of the status quo in…

    This is a reference to a very (well, in Internet terms at least!) old publication. PBI Media no longer exists as a business and has, I believe, changed its name to Access Intelligence following a number of B2B acquisitions.

    Extract:

    netpressure.com was written in the heady days of 1999 - a short while before the (first) dotcom bust. The report endeavoured to provide telecom executives with a much-needed potted Internet history followed by some extrapolations of the status quo in order to highlight risks and threats to traditional telco business.

    Along the way, the report accidentally predicted all that XaaS stuff you read about in the last few years before it magically metamorphosed into 'the cloud'. OK, I called that whole scenario by the name of 'centernalisation' (for centralised externally) but then I never claimed to be a marketeer! :)

    The research behind the report also led to a forecast model of Internet user growth which was pretty much spot on for the 1bn 'user' mark as well as the seeds of the first Internet traffic model to use voice traffic as a proxy for inter-geography data traffic. Gold star to me, I think. ;)

    Reading the report back now, there are a number of things that were on the money - and a number that were less so. Regardless, netpressure.com is mentioned here for completeness and as a curiosity from the days of trying to predict Internet directions. If you actually have a copy of this report, feel free to drop me a note.

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الدورات التعليمية

  • Technical Assessor for Data and Information Fusion PhDs

    Assessed 7 PhDs

  • Technical Authority for Data Fusion MSc Course

    2 cohorts

  • Technical Authority for industry-academia R&D projects

    54 projects

المشروعات

  • Squall

    The Storm computational topology is a reasonably well-known open source project previously available on GitHub (via nathanmarz) and now an Apache incubator project. However, despite being very good indeed, Storm is a little heavy if all you want is a mechanism to co-ordinate a computational topology (ie: a graph of discrete functional elements in a software system) and to provide guaranteed end-to-end processing of messages/events/etc. passing through that topology. Well, that's what we thought…

    The Storm computational topology is a reasonably well-known open source project previously available on GitHub (via nathanmarz) and now an Apache incubator project. However, despite being very good indeed, Storm is a little heavy if all you want is a mechanism to co-ordinate a computational topology (ie: a graph of discrete functional elements in a software system) and to provide guaranteed end-to-end processing of messages/events/etc. passing through that topology. Well, that's what we thought and so we wrote 'Squall': essentially a little Storm.

    Where Storm is designed to work across multiple distributed nodes - orchestrated and controlled by ZooKeeper for fault tolerance, etc. - Squall is designed to work on a single node; reaching out to other endpoints via REST and other API services. Squall makes heavy use of threads to provide parallel processing of input messages/events/etc.

    Currently deployed as the primary computational topology under our Gist project, we will record and post performance figures here later and, who knows, may actually get round to open-sourcing Squall at some time in the future.

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  • Ape

    Ape provides a data acquisition and reverse engineering capability that allows an organisation and it's entities (eg: clients, groups, users, vehicles, devices, services, etc.) to be reconstructed (or 'aped') simply by listening in to datastreams within the organisation.

    This allows for auxiliary data, analytics, insight, and visualisation services to be developed without either (a) extensive recreation of existing data structures (or, perhaps worse, implementation of multiple differing…

    Ape provides a data acquisition and reverse engineering capability that allows an organisation and it's entities (eg: clients, groups, users, vehicles, devices, services, etc.) to be reconstructed (or 'aped') simply by listening in to datastreams within the organisation.

    This allows for auxiliary data, analytics, insight, and visualisation services to be developed without either (a) extensive recreation of existing data structures (or, perhaps worse, implementation of multiple differing API/SDK adaptors!) or (b) interruption or risk to existing operational line of business systems.

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  • GIST

    GIST is a concept system currently under proof-of-concept development thanks to research funding from the UK MOD Centre for Defence Enterprise.

    GIST is concerned with the software implementation of a novel approach to triaging very large volumes of multi-lingual, multi-source documents based on document content. GIST includes the development and configuration of a computational topology for document handling within which GIST is to be integrated.

    This phase of GIST delivered on…

    GIST is a concept system currently under proof-of-concept development thanks to research funding from the UK MOD Centre for Defence Enterprise.

    GIST is concerned with the software implementation of a novel approach to triaging very large volumes of multi-lingual, multi-source documents based on document content. GIST includes the development and configuration of a computational topology for document handling within which GIST is to be integrated.

    This phase of GIST delivered on New Years Eve, 2013. It is capable of detecting English keyword equivalents in 54 languages in multiple document formats. Parallel processing in the GIST Computational Topology (A Squall instance) provides strong performance while the use of a search repository allows operators to search in English and retrieve results from documents in multiple languages.


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  • 2D Realtime Mapping of Virtual World Avatars

    Production of 2D abstract maps upon which real time updates of virtual world avatar positions can be plotted to provide virtual situational awareness.

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  • Personal Health Monitoring

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    Exploration of an array of personal health care sensors to provide tangible data that can be fused with intangible self-reported psychological and physiological observations as part of an individual health monitoring system. Includes the provision of sensor to mobile device application interfaces as well as backend aggregation of data from all participants to provide a central data analysis and reporting service.

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  • Multi-dimensional market modelling

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    Integration of a multi-dimensional commercial market model into a web-based portal for strategic business intelligence and analytics.

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  • Human Simulations at Scale

    Concept, design, and implementation of a human behavioural/motivation simulation system capable of simulating 2MM individual entities on a standard COTS laptop.

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  • Technologies for Retail Banking Experiences

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    Definition, procurement, and implementation of high touch, high engagement technologies to provide a compelling and reinforcing experience for retail banking customers in the Gulf region. Includes hardware procurement and integration, web. mobile, and multi-touch applications as well as immersive aspirational experiences.

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  • Cascade

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    Cascade provides a mechanism through which non-technical users may rapidly compose, and recompose, predefined software objects to address both one-off and ongoing requirements for data acquisition, information handling, analytics, insight development, and reporting. Cascade employs a web-based, Visio-like user interface that abstracts software object complexity into connectable blocks.

    The Cascade UI produces JSON instructions that are submitted to the Cascade server in order to…

    Cascade provides a mechanism through which non-technical users may rapidly compose, and recompose, predefined software objects to address both one-off and ongoing requirements for data acquisition, information handling, analytics, insight development, and reporting. Cascade employs a web-based, Visio-like user interface that abstracts software object complexity into connectable blocks.

    The Cascade UI produces JSON instructions that are submitted to the Cascade server in order to dynamically produce the software system designed by the user. The Cascade server dynamically assembles user-selected objects - along user-defined connections - to provide one-off or continuous execution of the user's requirement(s). Cascade handles 'big data' with aplomb: acquiring disparate data at speeds of around 350MB/s (on a basic 2GB/2CPU Linux VM) and triggering end-to-end execution of user defined cascades (software object chains - containing 10 objects of varying complexity in tests to date) in under one second. Repeated demonstration tests proved Cascade running at a rate of 1.3MM events per second on the aforementioned basic VM.

    Under contract from the UK Centre for Defence Enterprise, Cascade was conceived and developed to demonstrable alpha status in just four months. Cascade is currently being revised to a cloud-based beta deployment to which selected users will be invited.


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  • Crowdsourced Incident Reporting and Information Portal

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    Ground up design and build of a crowdsourced incident reporting platform with the provision of contextualised mapping and report overlays for operations in high-risk parts of the world.

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  • Health Care System Simulation

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    Gamification of a large scale simulation of the US Health Care system to allow disparately interested parties to come together around the nature and scope of interventions to be made in order to help improve community health.

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  • SAVEME (European Union FP7)

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    SAVEME was an EU FP7 project focused on the integration of sensors, virtual world simulation, and decision support systems to detect incidents and events in critical transport facilities containing large numbers of differently-able members of the public with a view to providing both general and personal evacuation guidance.

    I defined, developed, and implemented a fully integrated traveller simulation system - leveraging a graph-based representation of the facility at hand - wherein the…

    SAVEME was an EU FP7 project focused on the integration of sensors, virtual world simulation, and decision support systems to detect incidents and events in critical transport facilities containing large numbers of differently-able members of the public with a view to providing both general and personal evacuation guidance.

    I defined, developed, and implemented a fully integrated traveller simulation system - leveraging a graph-based representation of the facility at hand - wherein the movement and risk to travellers with different abilities were factored into overall evacuation planning. The results of this simulation, which executed in under 1 second for 50 distinct travellers in a 35 node graph, were relayed back to a central decision support system for issuance to mobile and collective herding devices. Results were also used to display 3D traveller avatars and their movements in a virtual world system. This last element required the production of 1:1 scale models of the facilities under test and the implementation of a custom interface for the creation and control of avatars in an existing virtual world product.

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  • CWID

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    A multinational, coalition-based, pan industry, pan customer, technical demonstration of short, medium and long term future system concepts in the defence and security domain.

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التكريمات والمكافآت

  • Pitch@Palace 9.0 Finalist

    Pitch@Palace

    Resilio Ltd was a finalist in Pitch@Palace 9.0 (UK). Pitch@Palace is an initiative founded by The Duke of York to support entrepreneurs with the amplification and acceleration of their business ideas. Pitch@Palace does this by connecting some of the most innovative start-up business in the country with potential investors and supporters, including angels, mentors and key business contacts.

  • Innovation Award

    General Dynamics, Inc.

    I was awarded the General Dynamics Innovation Award for my Research and Development work on Open Source Intelligence platforms.

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