Now some background about me. As well as lecturing on MBA, and BSc, courses here I'm also an alumnus as I took an MBA at City myself. Academia is my second career: before my MBA I worked for a large software house for just over ten years. There I did various project management jobs, starting when I had to bring a client's hardware and software staff together, to resolve the problems of needing more than 64 Kilobytes of memory on a computer! I also ran part of a collaborative research project using a satellite for communication, and worked alongside IBM on PC graphics and the Swedish Post Office on their counter automation system.

For some of my time in the software business, I was also a student in the evenings. I now work with several part-time students; I remember well both the stresses of balancing work and study, and the satisfaction when I could reap the reward.

Here in London the City refers to the financial and business district, that occupies the site of the original city going back as far as the Romans. The business school is at the Barbican, just at the edge of the City. For most of my adult life I lived in Putney, which is South West of London and near the river, but I moved a few years ago, and now live in North London: Highgate is my closest underground station.

You can find a London tube map (select 'map and tube guides') on the web, and you can locate Barbican, Highgate, and Putney on that.

There is now a London street map on the Internet and you can view the areas around my home and City University Business School on this.

These days my interests centre around the social and organisational issues in using networks such as this. In particular there is a whole range of issues which are raised by the ability of networks to cross traditional geographical boundaries, and by the way that new networks can support and enhance traditional means of communication. It's very exciting to work in an area that's generated the sort of interest, and media coverage, that has been accorded to the Internet recently.

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