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• Computer Science and Software Engineering,
  University of Canterbury,
  Private Bag 4800,
  Christchurch 8140,
  New Zealand.

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Tim Bell

Position

Professor
Deputy Head of Department
Software Engineering Director of Studies

Qualifications

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

Room

Erskine Building  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 8140,
New Zealand.

Undergraduate Courses

COSC110
COSC121 (S2)
COSC122

Graduate Courses

COSC433

Research Interests

My research interests include

• computer science education
  • Computer Science Field Guide
  • CS Unplugged
  • digital technology education in NZ,
  • report from 4 Feb 2011
• compression (Managing Gigabytes and The Burrows-Wheeler Transform), and
• computers and music.

A list of my publications is available here.

Other links

• Some (old but mainly still valid) 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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