thesis_year birth_place thesis_title doctoral_students name field work_institutions birth_date known_for residence prizes article_title citizenship alma_mater
1979 nottingham representative of time delay probability distributions queueing network models of computer systems in terms edwige pitel peter harrison performance analysis imperial college london 1951 rcat london , uk mayhew prize -lrb- 1973 -rrb- peter g. harrison
 british university of cambridge
peter g. harrison

peter george harrison -lrb- born 1951 -rrb- is a professor of computing science at imperial college london known for the reversed compound agent theorem , which gives conditions for a stochastic network to have a product-form solution .
harrison attended christ 's college , cambridge , where he was a wrangler in mathematics -lrb- 1972 -rrb- and gained a distinction in part iii of the mathematical tripos -lrb- 1973 -rrb- , winning the mayhew prize for applied mathematics .
after spending two years in industry , harrison moved to imperial college , london where he has worked since , obtaining his ph.d. in computing science in 1979 with a thesis titled `` representative queueing network models of computer systems in terms of time delay probability distributions '' and lecturing since 1983 .
current research interests include parallel algorithms , performance engineering , queueing theory , stochastic models and stochastic process algebra , particularly the application of rcat to find product-form solutions .
harrison has coauthored two books , `` functional programming '' with tony field , and `` performance modelling of communication networks and computer architectures '' with naresh patel and published over 150 papers .
harrison is an associate editor of the computer journal .
via saharon shelah and dov gabbay , harrison has an erdős number of 3 .
