Roger Kermode

woja@media.mit.edu

This page is under continuous construction last updated 3 May 2004

Biographical

Hi I'm Roger, I was born in the thriving metropolis of Maffra in the Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia. I went to the University of Melbourne where I earned bachelors degrees in Electrical Engineering (1989) and Computer Science (1990). After finishing at Melbourne Uni, I worked for a while at the Telecom Australia Research Laboratories on packet video and ISDN related projects. In 1992 I moved to the states and MIT where I worked as a research assistant in the Media Lab's Entertainment and Information Systems group.

I've since finished my studies having earned a Master's in 1994, and a Ph.D. in March in 1998. Up until Jan 2004 I worked for Motorola in Chicago and then in Sydney at the Motorola Australian Research Centre where I established and led the Sydney Networks Research Lab. I now consult in the area of R&D commercialisation, should you wish to contact me please do so via one of the following means. 

  Roger Kermode
  (mobile) +61-408-212-284
  (phone)  +61-2-8399-2445
  (fax)    +61-2-8399-2445
  (email)  roger @ alimua.com.au
An old resume can be found here. Please email if you'd like to obtain a newer one. A more up to date two paragraph bio can be found here.
Research

This is the research page I used to bookmark relevant web pages, RFCs, and Internet drafts whilst at the Media Lab.

In the meantime you can check out some preliminary results on the Scoped Hybrid ARQ with FEC (SHARQFEC) I've been developing as part of the Hierarchically Partitioned Reliable Transport Protocol (HPRTP) that I've been developing.

Aussie Stuff

What can I say? Australia is one of the most awesome countries in the world. Awesome people, awesome sports (footy, cricket), awesome lifestyle,and the beaches have to be seen to be believed.

Music is huge in Australia, on any given night some 150 bands will be playing in Melbourne alone. Aussie bands are among the best in the world, two of my favourites are Crowded House and Midnight Oil.

Links to Aussie pages

  • Australia Online (lots of aussie stuff)
  • Australia Online's Wine Page (yum!)
  • city.net's Melbourne Page
  • What's on in Melbourne
  • Melbourne International Festival
  • Australian News Reports (updated weekly)
  • The Australian Cricket Page
  • The Age Newspaper
  • The Australian Newspaper

    • MIT Directory

    Want to lookup the details on how to contact someone at MIT? Type their name in here and hit return..

    Internet Drafts (very out of date)

    Handley, M., Thaler, D., Kermode, R., "Multicast-Scope Zone Announcement Protocol (MZAP)", draft-ietf-mboned-mzap-03.txt, February, 1999

    Kermode, R., Thaler, D., "Scoped Address Discovery Protocol", draft-ietf-mboned-sadp-01.txt, February, 1999

    Kermode, R., "MADCAP Multicast Scope Nesting State Option", draft-kermode-madcap-nest-opt-00.txt, February, 1999.

    Publications

    R.G. Kermode, "Scoped Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest with Forward Error Correction (SHARQFEC)," To appear in ACM Sigcomm 98, September 1998, Vancouver, Canada. gzipped postscript (143524 bytes), gzipped pdf (126548 bytes)

    J. Gemmell, E. Schooler, and R. Kermode, "An Architecture for Multicast Telepresentations", To appear: Journal of Computing and Information Technology.

    J. Gemmell, E. Schooler, and R. Kermode, "A Scalable Multicast Architecture for One-to-many Telepresentations", IEEE Multimedia Systems 98, June 28 - July 1, 1998, Austin TX, USA

    R.G. Kermode, "Smart Network Caches: Localized Content and Applicaiton Negotiated Recovery Mechanisms for Multicast Media Distribution", Doctoral Dissertation, MIT Media Lab, June 1998. gzipped postscript (587654 bytes) gzipped pdf (656538 bytes) Abstract

    A.B. Lippman & R.G.Kermode, "Media Banks: Entertainment and the Internet", IBM Systems Journal, Vol. 35, No. 3&4, 1996 - MIT Media Lab.

    R.G. Kermode, H.N. Holtzman, & A.B. Lippman, "The Media Bank:A Fault Tolerant Heterogenous Distributed Pull Based Architecture for the Delivery of Object Oriented Multimedia across Packet Switched Networks", 7th International Workshop on Packet Video, March 18 - 19, 1996, Brisbane, Australia.

    R.G. Kermode and A.B. Lippman, Coding for Content: Enhanced Resolution from Coding1995 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Washington DC, U.S.A., October 23 - 26, 1995, VOl III, pp 460-463. (BIG 3.6 Meg Postscript).

    R.G. Kermode, Building the BIG Picture: Enhanced Resolution from Coding, Master's Thesis, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge MA, U.S.A., June 1994. (BIG 3.7 Meg Postscript)

    A.B. Lippman and R.G. Kermode, Generalized Predictive Coding of Movies, Picture Coding Symposium `93, Lausanne, Switzerland.

    R.G. Kermode and W.B.S. Tan, Recovery from Packet Dropout in Packetised H.261 Video Transmission, Australian Broadband Switching and Services Symposium `91, Sydney, Australia.

    Want to send me email? Send it to woja@media.mit.edu