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Biography
Professor John P. Morrison BSc, MSc, PhD, Dip TLHE, Senior MACM, Senior MIEEE is the founder and director of the Centre for Unified Computing. He is a co-founder and director of the Boole Centre for Research in Informatics. He was a co-founder and co-director of Grid-Ireland, funding collaborator in the Irish Centre for High-End Computing (ICHEC), a Principal Investigator in the Irish Centre for Cloud Computing and Commerce and the coordinator of the H2020 Cloudlightning Project.
Prof. Morrison has held multiple a Science Foundation of Ireland Principal Investigator awards and has published widely in the field of Parallel Distributed and Grid Computing. He has been the guest editor on many journals including the Journal of SuperComputing and the Journal of Scientific Computing. He is on the Editorial Board of Multi-Agent and Grid Systems, and the International Journal of Computational Intelligence: Theory and Practice (IJCITP). He is a senior member of the ACM and a senior member of the IEEE. Prof Morrison is a member of the I2Lab Advisory Board in the University of Central Florida. He has served on dozens of international conference programme committees and is a co-founder of the International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing.
Prof. Morrison is currently an investigator in the SFI/FexCo funded FinTechNext Project, in which his team is applying state of the art technology to support the next generation of financial technology services.
Research Interests
Prof John Morrison's primary research interests include: non-traditional computing paradigms: Dataflow, Functional Programming, Bio-Inspired Computing, and Self-Organizing Systems. He had significant contribution to the fields of Distributed Computing, High-Performance Computing, Grid Computing, Cloud Computing, and Heterogeneous Computing.
Biography
Reseach Grant Funding History
| Funding Body | Title | Period | Value |
| Forbairt | Basic Research on Condensed Graphs | 1997-1999 | UCC: £17,145 |
| Enterprise Ireland | Seed funding for The Centre for Unified Computing | 1997-2000 | UCC: £228,600 |
| Enterprise Ireland | Condensed Graphs - Anyware Programme | 2000-2003 |
UCC: €414, 655 |
| TelTec Irl | Constructing Distributed Programs on the Web Using Condensed Graphs | 2000-2001 | UCC: €73,025 |
| Enterprise Ireland | Establishing Grid-Ireland | 2000-2003 |
Total €114,300 UCC: €38,100 |
| Science Foundation Ireland | Anyware Feasibility Study | 2004-2004 | UCC: €11, 174 |
| Higher Education Authority | To establish the Boole Centre for Research in Informatics | 2002-2008 | UCC-BCRI: €5.2M |
| DELL | Boole Machine Equipment Donation | 2002 | UCC-BCRI: €100,000 |
| Higher Education Authority | CosmoGrid | 2002-2007 |
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies - €9M UCC-BCRI: €315,533 |
| Enterprise Ireland | Reconfigurable Matacomputing Using FPGAs and Condensed Graphs | 2002-2004 |
UCC: €65,766 |
| Enterprise Ireland | Exploring the Theorethical Foundation of Condensed Graphs | 2002-2005 | UCC: €77,700 |
| Enterprise Ireland | Patent Filing Application | 2002 | UCC: €20,000 |
| Science Foundation Ireland | WebCom-G: Middleware to hide the Grid | 2003-2007 | Total €4.9M UCC: €1,745,834 |
| Enterprise Ireland | Grid-Ireland Industry report | 2003-2003 | UCC-BCRI: €10,000 |
| Enterprise Ireland | Grid-Ireland Supplementary | 2004-2004 |
Total €78,000 UCC-BCRI: €26,525 |
| European Union EGEE | EGEE Activities and Inaugural Conference | 2004-2004 |
UCC-BCRI: €150,000 |
| DELL | Grid-Ireland Equipment Donation | 2004 |
UCC: €100,000 |
| Enterprise Ireland | Grid Roll-Out Feasability Study | 2004-2005 |
UCC: €26,500 |
| Science Foundation Ireland | Irish Centre for High-End Computing | 2005-2006 |
Total €48M UCC: €0 |
| Science Foundation Ireland | Outreach award | 2006-2006 | UCC-BCRI: €8,200 |
| Higher Education Authority | National BioPhotonics and Imaging Platform | 2007-2010 |
Total €31M UCC-BCRI: €671,285 |
| Higher Education Authority | E-Inis | 2007-2010 |
Total €13M UCC-BCRI: €500,000 |
| Science Foundation Ireland | Baby-Brainwaves | 2008-2011 |
UCC: €70,000 |
| Higher Education Authority | Boole Centre Supplemental | 2008-2008 |
UCC-BCRI: €205,000 |
| Science Foundation Ireland | BlueGene HPC Machine Support | 2008-2008 |
UCC: €114,000 |
| Science Foundation Ireland | Overhead Investment Plan | 2008-2010 |
UCC-BCRI: €136,483 |
| European Union FP7 | Nemo Drug Trials | 2009-2014 |
Total €5.9M UCCC-BCRI: €81,090 |
| IRCSET-IBM | Traversing Large Graphs in Realistic Settings | 2010-2012 |
UCC: €79,280 |
| European Union FP7 | HiP Drug Trials | 2011-2016 |
Total €5.3M UCC-BCRI: €90,000 |
| Enterprise Ireland | ScruitaniseIT | 2011-2012 |
UCC: €183,483 |
| Enterprise Ireland | Irish Centre of Cloud Computing and Commerce - Phase 1 | 2012-2012 |
Total €1M UCC-BCRI: 379,111 |
| Enterprise Ireland -Innvocation Voucher | Rezumei | 2013-2013 |
UCC: €6,500 |
| Enterprise Ireland | Irish Centre of Cloud Computing and Commerce - Phase 2 | 2013-2017 |
Total €4.5M UCC-BCRI: €1.5M |
| IRSET-Intel | Service Differentiation in Multi-Cloud Environments | 2013-2017 |
UCC: €73,000 |
| Enterprise Ireland - Innovation Voucher | Agri-Food Research Solutions | 2014-2014 | UCC: €6,500 |
| Enterprise Ireland | EU Research Proposal Preparation | 2014 | UCC: €10,000 |
| European Union - Horizon 2020 | CloudLightning | 2015-2018 |
Total: €3.9M UCC-BCRI: €883,225 |
| Enterprise Ireland -Innovation Voucher | Little Gray Cells Phone-Free Driving | 2018-2018 |
UCC: €5,000 |
| Science Foundation Ireland - FexCo | FinTechNext | 2019-2023 |
Total €3M UCC-BCRI: €600,000 |
Biography
Past Postgranduate Supervision
| Student Name | Graduation | Degree |
| Eric Rutten (University of Renne, Co-Supervised) | 1987 | MSc |
| Theo van der Waal (University of Twente, Co-Supervised) | 1987 | Drs |
| Hans Weijers (University of Delft, Co-Supervised) | 1990 | Drs |
| Sylvain van der Weerd (University of Delft, Co-Supervised) | 1990 | Drs |
| Chunji Hu (UCC) | 1994 | MSc |
| Emmett O' Sullivan (UCC) | 1994 | MSc |
| David Power (UCC) | 1997 | MSc |
| Ronan Connolly (UCC) | 1999 | MSc |
| Colm Dineen (UCC, Co-Supervised) | 2002 | PhD |
| Keith Power (UCC) | 2003 | PhD |
| James Kennedy (UCC) | 2004 | PhD |
| Tatiana Tabirca (University of Manchester Co-Supervised) | 2004 | MPhil |
| David Power (UCC) | 2004 | PhD |
| Daithi O' Crulaigh | 2005 | MSc |
| Alan Hamilton (UCC, Co-Supervised) | 2005 | MSc |
| Philip Healy (UCC) | 2006 | PhD |
| Padraig O' Down (UCC) | 2006 | PhD |
| Thomas Quillinan (UCC, CO-Supervised) | 2006 | PhD |
| Archana Patil (UCC) | 2007 | MSc |
| Sunil John (UCC) | 2008 | PhD |
| Barry Mulcahy (UCC, Co-Supervised) | 2008 | PhD |
| Neil Cafferkey (UCC) | 2011 | PhD |
| Chenqi Wang (UCC) | 2011 | PhD |
| Christopher Norvik (UCC) | 2011 | PhD |
| Ruairi O' Reilly (UCC) | 2015 | PhD |
| Stefan Mayer (UCC) | 2017 | PhD |
Teaching Activities
Current Teaching Assignment
- CS1111 Computer Systems Organization
- CS1061 C Programming
- CS1110 Computer Hardware Organization
- CS3514 C Programming for Microcontrollers
UCC Futures (primary)
- Future of Networks, Systems & Cybersecurity
Other research affiliations
- UCC Futures - Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
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UCC achieves Athena SWAN Bronze Awards
Morrison, J., Byrne, S., O'Toole, C., Fitzgerald, T. & Mcveigh, J.
8/05/23
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Research at University College Cork into cloud energy efficiency
18/06/15
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