Jim Webber

About

Dr. Jim Webber is Neo4j's Chief Scientist and Visiting Professor at Newcastle University. At Neo4j, Jim leads the Systems Research Group, working on a variety of database research topics with a focus on fault-tolerance. He also co-authored several books on graph technology including Graph Databases (1st and 2nd editions, O'Reilly), Graph Databases for Dummies (Wiley), and Building Knowledge Graphs (O'Reilly). Prior to Neo4j, Jim worked on fault-tolerant distributed systems. First at Newcastle University startup Arjuna and then for a variety of clients for global consulting firm ThoughtWorks. Along the way Jim co-authored the distributed systems books REST in Practice (O'Reilly) and Developing Enterprise Web Services - An Architect's Guide (Prentice Hall).

Education

• PhD, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2000

Selected publications

• Asynchronous messaging between Web services using SSDL
• WS-GAF: a framework for building Grid applications using Web Services
• Web Service Grids: An evolutionary approach
• Visual, Object-Oriented Development of Parallel Applications
• Making Web Services Work
• Protocol-Based Integration Using SSDL and pi-Calculus
• A Performance Study of Epoch-based Commit Protocols in Distributed OLTP Databases
• Preserving Reciprocal Consistency in Distributed Graph Databases
• Design and Evaluation of an Edge Concurrency Control Protocol for Distributed Graph Databases
• On the degradation of distributed graph databases with eventual consistency