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Computer Science and Software Engineering

Tim Bell

Position

Associate Professor
Deputy Head of Department

Qualifications

B.Sc.(Hons), Ph.D., A.T.C.L.

Room

Maths/Computer Science 303

Contact Details

Phone: +64 3 364 2987 Ext:7727
Fax: +64 3 364 2569
Tim.Bell@canterbury.ac.nz

Postal Address:

Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering

College of Engineering
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch
New Zealand

Undergraduate Courses

COSC110
COSC122
COSC222

Graduate Courses

COSC433 (new in 2010)

Research Interests

My research interests include

• computer science education (including CS Unplugged and digital technology education in NZ),
• compression (Managing Gigabytes and The Burrows-Wheeler Transform), and
• computers and music.

Other links

• Some comments about Electronic document distribution, and why MS Word attachments aren't necessarily the best way to do it.
• The Canterbury Corpus for evaluating lossless compression systems.

Selected Publications

I am co-author of the books:

Managing Gigabytes.

The Burrows-Wheeler Transform.

 

 

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