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Mark Burgess (born 19 February 1966) is a researcher and writer at Oslo University College in Norway, who is well known for work in computer science in the field of policy-based configuration management. Mark Burgess was born in Maghull in the United Kingdom to English parents. He grew up in Bloxham, a small village in Oxfordshire from the age of 5-18, attending Bloxham Primary School, Warriner Secondary School and Banbury Upper School. Originally interested in physics and astronomy, he went to study astrophysics at the (then) School of Physics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, where he later switched to pure Physics and then Theoretical Physics for his bachelor's degree. He stayed on to obtain a Doctor of Philosophy in Theoretical Physics in Newcastle, in the field of ''Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Non-Abelian Gauge Theories'', for which he received the Runcorn Prize. After completing a doctorate he pursued a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Oslo in Norway and has lived in Oslo ever since. While at Oslo he developed an interest in the behaviour of computers as dynamic systems and began to apply ideas from physics to describe computer behaviour. Mark Burgess is perhaps best known as the author of the popular configuration management software package CFEngine, but has also made important contributions to the theory of the field of automation and policy based management, including the idea of operator convergence and promise theory. Other free software projects initiated by Mark Burgess * (FaultCat ) - Fault Tree Analysis software (with Erik Haugvaldstad, Øystein Heskestad, Dagfinn Steinnes) * (Archipelago ) - Graph Theoretic Centrality Decomposition Visualizer * (Cellular automaton Simulation Environment ) (Later developed by Hårek Haugerud, Thomas Sevaldrud, and others) * ECG machine-learning monitoring project, later integrated into CFEngine 2 as cfenvd, and CFEngine 3 as cf-monitord == Contributions to Computer Science == Burgess has made contributions to theoretical and empirical computer science, mainly in the area of the behaviour of computing infrastructure and services.〔(M. Burgess, website )〕 In the early 1990s Burgess asserted that programmatic models of computer programs could not describe observed behaviour at the macroscopic scale, and that statistical physics could be used instead, thus likening artificial systems to a quasi-natural phenomenon.〔M. Burgess, In Search of Certainty, XtAxis Press, 2013〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mark Burgess (computer scientist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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