A man responsible for diverting the World Trade Centre's phone calls when the Twin Towers were hit on September 11 is visiting the University of Dundee tomorrow (Thursday 17 Jan).
Phil Hill, systems engineer manager from Agilent Technologies in South Queensferry, will be delivering the first British Computer Society's lecture for 2002 on Thursday 17th January at 6.30pm at the University of Dundee's Micro Centre to explain how they create a system that monitors telecommunications.
In a lecture entitled 'Portfolio Delivery Management' Phil will talk of the management for the delivery of maintaining solutions for telecomm companies.
An example of his company's products being put to use was highlighted during the September 11 disaster in America. Agilent's system was monitoring Bell Atlantic, one of the major telecommunication systems in America, when it suddenly dropped out at 9am. Agilent's system was able to find alternative routes to direct calls via other configurations for the next 48 hours.
The public lecture takes place in the Department of Applied Computing (the "MicroCentre") in Park Wynd, 6.30pm for 7pm on the University of Dundee campus.
The next lecture is on 18th April and will discuss Computer Games of the future hosted by Russell Kay and Stuart Capewell of Visual Sciences Ltd.
Contact David Murie, IT Services, Chairman of British Computer Society, Tayside Branch 01382 344130