Brian Gilmore has worked for the Edinburgh Regional Computing Centre for the
past 11 years, the last 3 of which as Communications Manager. He graduated 
from Edinburgh University in 1971 with a BSc (Hons) in Physics and added a
MPhil in Computer Science in 1976.
Brian Gilmore's principal duties as Communications Manager include the
strategic planning for and the management of the team which develops and
maintains the software for the Edinburgh University X.25 data network EDNET
which interconnects over 40 hosts and 1700 terminals in addition to links to
the Academic Network JANET and the Public Data Network.
He served on the Temporary Network Executive which ran JANET in its 
initial phase and has served on the Academic Communities' ISO Transition
Committee, planning the transition from Coloured Books to ISO, for the past
20 months. His latest paper was 'Using PABX for voice and data in large
networks', published in Data Processing Vol 27 No 8, October 1985