Alasdair Allan
 
 
 
 
Alasdair Allan is a senior research fellow in astronomy at the University of Exeter. As
part of his work there, he is building a distributed peer-to-peer network of telescopes
that, acting autonomously, will reactively schedule observations of time-critical events.
On the side, Alasdair runs a small technology consulting business writing bespoke
software and building open hardware, and he is currently developing a series of iPhone
applications to monitor and manage cloud-based services and distributed sensor
networks.