Bernard Horan is a Senior Staff Engineer for Sun Microsystems Laboratories, where he is the Principal Investigator for the Meeting Echoes project, collaborating closely with members of the Collaborative Environments project.
Bernard was the instigator and technical lead of the successful collaborative project that used Project Wonderland to create a Mixed Reality Teaching & Learning Environment (MiRTLE).
Bernard's earlier research has included work on the semantic web as part of the Advanced Search Technology
project (he was a member of the W3C WebOnt WG) and the
Sun SPOT project.
Prior to joining Sun, Bernard worked in banking, leading the development of enterprise client information systems.
Education:
* MSc Computer Science 1992, University of Manchester, UK
* Certificate in Education 1985, Garnett College, London, UK
* BA (Hons) Mathematics 1982, University of Essex, UK
