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Professor Tim Bell

Contact

Department: Computer Science and Software Engineering

Email: tim.bell@canterbury.ac.nz

Direct Dial: +64 3 3692118

Office: Jack Erskine 345

Language: English

About
Research / Creative works
Networks
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Fields of Research

  • Computer Science education
  • Text compression
  • Algorithms
  • Computer music

Researcher Summary

Research interests include computer science education, compression, and computers and music.

Subject Area: Disciplines

  • Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Sciences: Computer Science; Computer Music
  • Education: Education
  • Engineering and Technology: Computer & Software Engineering

Resources

  • Staff webpage

Prizes and Awards

  • 2013 ETH (Zurich, Switzerland) ABZ medal for CS Unplugged ( 2013 - present )
  • ACM SIGCSE Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education ( 2017 - present )
  • Inaugural New Zealand Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award ( 2002 )
  • Inaugural New Zealand Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award (2002) ( 1997 - 2002)
  • Erskine Fellowship (China, Sweden, USA and Canada) ( 2006 )
  • Erskine Fellowship (Korea, China) ( 2009 )
  • Erskine Fellowship to Korea and China, 2009 ( 2009 )
  • Erskine Grant (28/03/98-06/05/98). Data Compression Conf. Utah, Edinburgh Int.Science Festival, Middlesex Uni. ( 1997 - 2002)

Research/Scholarly/Creative Works

  • Lonati V., Brodnik A., Bell T., Csizmadia AP., De Mol L., Hickman H., Keane T., Mirolo C. and Monga M. (2022) What We Talk about When We Talk about Programs. In Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE: 117-164. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3571785.3574125. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Lonati V., Brodnik A., Bell T., Csizmadia AP., De Mol L., Hickman H., Keane T., Mirolo C., Monga M. and Tedre M. (2022) Characterizing the Nature of Programs for educational purposes. In Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE 2: 572-573. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3502717.3532173. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Bell T. (2021) CS unplugged or coding classes? Communications of the ACM 64(5): 25-27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3457195. (Journal Articles)
  • Bell T. (2021) Computational thinking: Online and offline, plugged and unplugged. In ACM International Conference Proceeding Series http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3481312.3488711. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Munasinghe B., Bell T. and Robins A. (2021) Teachers' understanding of technical terms in a Computational Thinking curriculum. In ACM International Conference Proceeding Series: 106-114. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3441636.3442311. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Amanullah K. and Bell T. (2020) Revisiting code smells in block based languages. In ACM International Conference Proceeding Series http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3421590.3421613. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Amanullah K. and Bell T. (2020) Teaching Resources for Young Programmers: The use of Patterns. In Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE 2020-October http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/FIE44824.2020.9273985. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Amanullah K. and Bell T. (2019) Analysing students' scratch programs and addressing issues using elementary patterns. In Proceedings FIE 2018: 5. Stipes. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/FIE.2018.8658821. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Amanullah K. and Bell T. (2019) Analysis of Progression of Scratch Users based on their Use of Elementary Patterns. In. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Amanullah K. and Bell T. (2019) Evaluating the Use of Remixing in Scratch Projects Based on Repertoire , Lines of Code (LOC), and Elementary Patterns. In : 8. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Bell T. (2019) Computer Science - it's not just about coding. In Henry J (Ed.), L'informatique expliquée aux enseignants (in French)Politeia. (Chapters)
  • Bell T. and Lodi M. (2019) Authors’ response keeping the “computation” in “computational thinking” through unplugged activities. Constructivist Foundations 14(3): 357-359. (Journal Articles)
  • Bell T. and Lodi M. (2019) Constructing computational thinking without using computers. Constructivist Foundations 14(3): 342-351. (Journal Articles)
  • Curzon P., Bell TC., Waite J. and Dorling M. (2019) Computational thinking. In Fincher S; Robins A (Ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Computing Education Research: 513-546. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108654555.018. (Chapters)
  • Bell J. and Bell T. (2018) Integrating computational thinking with a music education context. Informatics in Education 17(2): 151-166. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/infedu.2018.09. (Journal Articles)
  • Bell T. (2018) Computer Science in K-12 Education: The Big Picture. Olympiads in Informatics 12: 3-11. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/ioi.2018.01. (Journal Articles)
  • Bell T. (2018) Computer science in K-12 education: The big picture. In Olympiads in Informatics 12: 3-11. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/ioi.2018.01. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Bell T. (2018) CS Unplugged and Computational thinking. In Dagienė V; Jasutė E (Eds). http://www.constructionism2018.fsf.vu.lt/proceedings/: 21-28. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Bell T. and Vahrenhold J. (2018) CS unplugged - How is it used, and does it work? Adventures Between Lower Bounds and Higher Altitudes: 497-521. Cham: Springer. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98355-4_29. (Chapters)
  • Bell T., Tymann P. and Yehudai A. (2018) The Big Ideas in Computer Science for K-12 Curricula. Bulletin of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science 124(124): 11. (Journal Articles)
  • Bell TC. and Duncan C. (2018) Teaching computing in primary schools. In Sentance S; Barendsen E; Schulte C (Ed.), Computer Science Education: Perspectives on Teaching and Learning in School: 131-150. London: Bloomsbury Academic. (Chapters)
  • Pollock L., Atlas J., Bell T. and Henderson T. (2018) A Computer Science Study Abroad with Service Learning: Design and Reflections. In Proceedings SIGCSE '18: 485-490. ACM Digital Library. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3159450.3159589. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Webb ME., Bell T., Davis N., Katz YJ., Fluck A., Syslo MM., Kalas I., Cox M., Angeli C. and Malyn-Smith J. (2018) Tensions in specifying computing curricula for K-12: Towards a principled approach for objectives. it - Information Technology 60(2): 59-68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/itit-2017-0017. (Journal Articles)
  • Bell T., Duncan C. and Rainer A. (2017) What is coding? In Humble S (Ed.), Creating the Coding Generation in Primary Schools: A Practical Guide for Cross-Curricular TeachingRoutledge. (Chapters)
  • Duncan C., Bell T. and Atlas J. (2017) What do the teachers think? Introducing computational thinking in the primary school curriculum. In ACM International Conference Proceeding Series: 65-74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3013499.3013506. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Nesbit T., O'Steen WL. and Bell T. (2017) Using applications on personally owned devices to enhance student engagement in large lectures: Learning adviser perspectives. In. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Webb M., Bell T., Davis N., Katz YJ., Reynolds N., Chambers DP., Sysło MM., Fluck A., Cox M. and Angeli C. (2017) Computer science in the school curriculum: Issues and challenges. In IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology 515: 421-431. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74310-3_43. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Webb M., Davis N., Bell T., Katz Y., Reynolds N., Chambers DP. and Sysło MM. (2017) Computer science in K-12 school curricula of the 2lst century: Why, what and when? Education and Information Technologies 22(2): 445-468. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10639-016-9493-x. (Journal Articles)
  • Bell T. and Roberts J. (2016) Computational thinking is more about humans than computers. set: Research Information for Teachers 2016(1): 3-7. http://dx.doi.org/10.18296/set.0030. (Journal Articles)
  • Bell T., Duncan C. and Atlas J. (2016) Teacher feedback on delivering computational thinking in primary school. In Proceedings of WiPSCE '16: 100-101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2978249.2978266. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Bell TC. (2016) Demystifying coding for schools — what are we actually trying to teach? Bulletin of the European Association for Computer Science (BEATCS) : 126-134. (Journal Articles)
  • Bell TC. (2016) What’s all the fuss about coding? In : 12-16. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Nesbit T., O'Steen WL., Bell T. and Martin A. (2016) The journey from texting to applications on personally owned devices to enhance student eEngagement in large lectures: A pilot study. Journal of Applied Computing and Information Technology 20(1): 1-15. (Journal Articles)
  • Bell T., Bompastor B., Bukowiec S., Castro Leon J., Denis MK., Van Eldik J., Fermin Lobo M., Fernandez Alvarez L., Fernandez Rodriguez D. and Marino A. (2015) Scaling the CERN OpenStack cloud. In Journal of Physics: Conference Series 664(2) http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/664/2/022003. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Bell TC. (2015) Surprising Computer Science. In Informatics in Schools. Curricula, Competences, and Competitions Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol 9378: ISSEP: 1-11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25396-1_1. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Duncan C. and Bell TC. (2015) A Pilot Computer Science and Programming Course for Primary School students. In WiPSCE'15: 39-48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2818314.2818328. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Nesbit T., O'Steen B. and Bell T. (2015) Apps on Smart Phones to Increase Engagement in Lectures: Student Focus Group Perspectives. Newport, UK: Society for Research into Higher Education Annual Research Conference (SRHE 2015), 9-11 Dec 2015. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • Nesbit T., O'Steen B. and Bell T. (2015) Use of Applications on Mobile Web Enabled Devices to Increase Student Engagement During Lectures for Accounting Information Systems Courses. In. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Nesbit T., O'Steen B. and Bell T. (2015) Using Apps on Mobile Devices to Enhance Student Engagement in Large Lectures: Learning Adviser Perspectives. In. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Nesbit T., O'Steen WL. and Bell T. (2015) Use of smart phone applications and purple shirts to enhance student engagement in large lectures? In Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of Computing and Information Technology Research and Education New Zealand. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Thompson D. and Bell T. (2015) Virtually Unplugged: Rich Data Capture to Evaluate CS Pedagogy in 3D Virtual Worlds. In. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Webb M., Davis NE., Bell T., Katz Y., Reynolds N. and Syslo MM. (2015) Towards deeper understanding of the roles of CS/Informatics in the curriculum. In Proceedings: 374-381. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Algarni M., Martin B., Bell T. and Neshatian K. (2014) Simple Arabic Stemmer. In : 1803-1806. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Bell T. (2014) Establishing a nationwide CS curriculum in New Zealand high schools. Communications of the ACM 57(2): 28-30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2556937. (Journal Articles)
  • Bell T. (2014) Ubiquity Symposium: The science in computer science: unplugging computer science to find the science. Ubiquity 2014(Mar): 1-6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2590528.2590531. (Journal Articles)
  • Bell T., Andreae P. and Robins A. (2014) A case study of the Introduction of Computer Science in NZ schools. ACM Transactions on Computing Education (TOCE) 14(2) 10: 31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2602485. (Journal Articles)
  • Bell T., Duncan C., Jarman S. and Newton H. (2014) Presenting Computer Science Concepts to High School Students. Olympiads in Informatics Journal 8: 3-19. (Journal Articles)
  • Bell T., Newton H., Duncan C. and Jarman S. (2014) Adoption of Computer Science in NZ schools. Auckland, New Zealand: Computer Science Association New Zealand 2014 (CSANZ), 8-10 Oct 2014. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • Duncan C., Bell T. and Tanimoto S. (2014) Should your 8-year-old learn coding? In Proceedings: 60-69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2670757.2670774. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Jarman S. and Bell T. (2014) A game to teach network communication reliability problems and solutions. Berlin, Germany: 9th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education (WiPSCE 2014), 5-7 Nov 2014. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • Nesbit T., O'Steen B. and Bell T. (2014) Using Mobile Technologies to Enhance Student Engagement in Large Lectures. In. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Adjeroh D., Bell T. and Amar Mukherjee A. (2013) Pattern Matching in Compressed Texts and Images. Foundations and Trends in Signal Processing 6(2-3): 97241. http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/2000000038. (Journal Articles)
  • Bell T. (2013) Engaging School students in computer science. Tauranga, New Zealand: IITP National Conference, 23-25 Oct 2013. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • Bell T. and Newton H. (2013) Unplugging computer science. In Kadijevich DM; Angeli C; Schulte C (Ed.), Improving Computer Science Education: 66-81. New York/Abingdon: Routledge. (Chapters)
  • Gibson B. and Bell T. (2013) Evaluation of games for teaching Computer Science. Aarhus, Denmark: 8th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education (WiPSCE 2013), 11-13 Nov 2013. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • Nesbit T., O'Steen B. and Bell T. (2013) Prevailing Personal Social Communication Technologies Enhancing Engagement in Large Lectures: From Texting to Mobile Web Enabled Devices. In Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Society of Research into Higher Education: 5pp. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Sarkar A. and Bell T. (2013) Teaching Black-box Testing to High School Students. Aarhus, Denmark: 8th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education (WiPSCE 2013), 11-13 Nov 2013. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • Thompson D. and Bell T. (2013) Adoption of new Computer Science high school standards by New Zealand teachers. In. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Thompson D., Bell T., Andreae P. and Robins A. (2013) The role of teachers in implementing curriculum changes. In Proceedings: 245-250. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2445196.2445272. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Andrade P., Bell T., Van Eldik J., McCance G., Panzer-Steindel B., Dos Santos MC., Traylen S. and Schwickerath U. (2012) Review of CERN data centre infrastructure. In Journal of Physics: Conference Series 396(PART 4) http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/396/4/042002. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Bell J. and Bell T. (2012) Nurturing students in a school music program through a natural disaster. Thessaloniki, Greece: 30th ISME World Conference (International Society for Music Education), 15-20 Jul 2012. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • Bell T., Andreae P. and Robins A. (2012) Computer Science in NZ High Schools: The First Year of the New Standards. In Proceedings:: 343-348. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2157136.2157240. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Bell T., Fellows M., Rosamond F., Bell J. and Marghitu D. (2012) Unplugging education: Removing barriers to engaging with new disciplines. In. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Bell T., Newton H., Andreae P. and Robins A. (2012) The introduction of computer science to NZ high schools: An analysis of student work. In Proceedings of the 7th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education: 5-15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2481449.2481454. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Bell T., Rosamond F. and Casey N. (2012) Computer Science Unplugged and related projects in math and computer science popularization. In Bodlaender HL; Downey R; Fomin FV; Marx D (Ed.), The Multivariate Algorithmic Revolution and Beyond: Essays Dedicated to Michael R. Fellows on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday. LNCS 7370: 398-456. Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30891-8_18. (Chapters)
  • Denning PJ. and Bell T. (2012) The Information Paradox. American Scientist 100(6): 470-477. http://dx.doi.org/10.1511/2012.99.470. (Journal Articles)
  • Bell T. and Aspvall B. (2011) Sorting Algorithms as Special Cases of a Priority Queue Sort. In Proceedings of SIGCSE 2011: 123-128. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1953163.1953203. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Bell T. and Bell M. (2011) Reaching out (binary codes). Dallas, TX, USA: 42nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2011), 9-12 Mar 2011. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • Bell T. and Lambert L. (2011) Teaching Computer Science Majors About Teaching Computer Science. In Proceedings of the 42nd ACM technical symposium on Computer Science Education: 541-546. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Bell T., Bell M. and Chicha V. (2011) Santa's dirty socks (divide and conquer). Dallas, TX, USA: 42nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2011), 9-12 Mar 2011. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • Bell T., Curzon P., Cutts Q., Dagiene V. and Haberman B. (2011) Introducing Students to Computer Science With Programmes That Don't Emphasise Programming. In. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Bell T., Curzon P., Cutts Q., Dagiene V. and Haberman B. (2011) Overcoming Obstacles to CS Education by using Non-Programming Outreach Programmes. In. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Bell T., Marghitu D. and Bell J. (2011) Workshop: CS Unplugged: Computational Thinking without Computers. South Korea: Society for Design and Process Science (SDPS-11), 12-16 Jun 2011. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • Campana S., Van Der Ster DC., Di Girolamo A., Peters AJ., Duellmann D., Dos Santos MC., Iven J. and Bell T. (2011) Commissioning of a CERN production and analysis facility based on xrootd. In Journal of Physics: Conference Series 331(PART 7) http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/331/7/072006. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Hearns M., Cockeram J., Schott G., Bell T., Cochrane T., Corder D., Philpott A., Atkins C., Diener S. and Parsons D. (2011) He ara hou ka tū mai: NZ institutions of higher learning unpacking demands and facilitating change. In ASCILITE 2011 - The Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education: 571-579. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Bell T. and Bell R. (2010) Image Compression - Making Contact. Milwaukee, WI, USA: 41st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2010), 10-13 Mar 2010. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • Bell T. and Bell R. (2010) Sorting Algorithms (Unplugged). Milwaukee, WI, USA: 41st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2010), 10-13 Mar 2010. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • Bell T., Andreae P. and Lambert L. (2010) Computer Science in New Zealand High Schools. In Australian Computer Science Communications 32(2): 15-22. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Bell T., Arpaci-Dusseau A., Witten I. and Fellows M. (2010) Computer Science Unplugged: Understanding Computing Through Games and Puzzles. Hubei: Huazhong University of Science and Technology Press. (Authored Books)
  • Bell T., Bell M. and Finnerty K. (2010) Computer Science Buskers? (Error Correction). Milwaukee, WI, USA: 41st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2010), 10-13 Mar 2010. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • Bell T., Pasternak A., Stephenson C., Tucker A. and Vahrenhold J. (2010) Implementing CS Curricula in Secondary Education: An International Perspective. Arlington, VA, USA: 40th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 27-30 Oct 2010. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • Jin H., Ibrahim S., Bell T., Gao W., Huang D. and Wu S. (2010) Cloud Types and Services. In Furht B; Escalante A (Ed.), Handbook of Cloud Computing: 335-355. New York: Springer. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6524-0. (Chapters)
  • Jin H., Ibrahim S., Bell T., Qi L., Cao H., Wu S. and Shi X. (2010) Tools and Technologies for Building Clouds. In Antonopoulos N; Gillam L (Ed.), Cloud Computing: Principles, Systems and Applications: 3-20. London: Springer-Verlag. (Chapters)
  • Murugesh S., Bell T. and McGrath A. (2010) A Review of Computer Science Resources to Support NCEA. In Proceedings: 173-181. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Su Y., Liao X., Jin H. and Bell T. (2010) Data hiding in virtual machine disk images. In Proceedings - 10th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, CIT-2010, 7th IEEE International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems, ICESS-2010, ScalCom-2010: 2278-2283. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CIT.2010.393. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Thompson D. and Bell T. (2010) Evaluating CS Education Activities in Virtual Worlds Through Automated Monitoring. Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand: New Zealand Computer Science Students Research Conference, 12-15 Apr 2010. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • Thompson D. and Bell T. (2010) Virtual Worlds: Evaluating CS education activities through automated monitoring. In. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Voigt J., Bell T. and Aspvall B. (2010) Competition-style programming problems for Computer Science Unplugged activities. In Verdu E; Lorenzo R; Revilla M; Regueras L (Ed.), A New Learning Paradigm: Competition Supported by Technology: 207-234. Boecillo: CEDETEL. (Chapters)
  • Ward B., Bell T., Marghitu D. and Lambert L. (2010) Teaching computer science concepts in Scratch and Alice. The Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges 26(2): 173-180. (Journal Articles)
  • Bainbridge D. and Bell TC. (2009) An Ajax-based digital music stand for Greenstone. Austin, TX, USA: Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2009), 15-19 Jun 2009. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • Bell T. (2009) Computational Thinking through Computer Science Unplugged. Committee for the Workshops on Computational Thinking; National Research Council. [Workshop report]. (Other)
  • Bell T. and Bell R. (2009) The Treasure Hunt. New York, NY, USA: 40th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education, 1 Jan 2009. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • Bell T. and Bell R. (2009) Video: The Orange Game. Chattanooga, TN, USA: 40th ACM technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 4-7 Mar 2009. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • Bell T., Alexander J., Freeman I. and Grimley M. (2009) Computer Science Unplugged: School Students Doing Real Computing Without Computers. The New Zealand Journal of Applied Computing and Information Technology 13(1): 20-29. (Journal Articles)
  • Bell T., Marghitu D., Grimley M., Manabe H. and Bianco GM. (2009) Kinesthetic computer science activities in a virtual world. Chattanooga, TN, USA: The 40th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2009), 3-7 Mar 2009. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • Bianco GM., Bell T. and Tinazzi S. (2009) Introducing powerful ideas to children: analogical mediation for computing concepts through storytelling. Chattanooga, TN, USA: The 40th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2009), 3-7 Mar 2009. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • Curzon P., McOwan PW., Cutts QI. and Bell T. (2009) Enthusing and inspiring with reusable kinaesthetic activities. In SIGCSE Bulletin 41(3): 94-98. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Khalid R., Kreutzer W. and Bell T. (2009) Combining Simulation and Animation of Queueing Scenarios in a Flash-Based Discrete Event Simulator. In Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing 20(Information Systems: Modeling, Development and Int): 240-251. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Khalid R., Kreutzer W. and Bell T. (2009) Flash: Making Simulations interactive. In. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Marghitu D., Bell T., Kearns B., Ward B. and Stephen-Pope K. (2009) Using Virtual Worlds to Engage Typical and Special Needs Students in Kinesthetic Computer Science Activities: A Computer Science Unplugged Case Study. In. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Nishida T., Kanemune S., Idosaka Y., Namiki M., Bell T. and Kuno Y. (2009) A CS unplugged design pattern. SIGCSE Bulletin Inroads 41(1): 231-235. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1539024.1508951. (Journal Articles)
  • Nishida T., Kanemune S., Namiki M., Idosaka Y., Bell T. and Kuno Y. (2009) A CS Unplugged Design Pattern. In SIGCSE '09 Proceedings: 231-235. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1508865.1508951. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Adjeroh D., Bell T. and Mukherjee A. (2008) The Burrows-Wheeler Transform: Data Compression, Suffix Arrays, and Pattern Matching. New York: Springer. 351pp. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-78909-5. (Authored Books)
  • Bell J. and Bell T. (2008) Extending musically gifted pre-school children. Frascati, Italy: 13th Early Childhood Music Education International Seminar, 14-19 Jul 2008. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • Bell J. and Bell T. (2008) Keeping musically gifted children in tune with their passion and their peers at primary school. Bologna, Italy: 28th International Society for Music Education Conference (ISME 2008), 21-26 Jul 2008. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • Bell T. (2008) Introducing the next generation of Computer Scientists to the magic and beauty of computing. Jeju Island, Korea: Summer Symposium in Sando, 19-21 Aug 2008. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • Bell T., Alexander J., Freeman I. and Grimley M. (2008) Computer Science without computers: new outreach methods from old tricks. In. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Bell T., Wada BT., Kanemune S., Xie X., Lee WG., SookKyoung C. and Aspvall B. (2008) Making computer science activities accessible for the languages and cultures of Japan, Korea, China and Sweden. Portland, OR, USA: 39th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2008), 12-15 Mar 2008. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • Choi SK., Bell T., Jun SJ. and Lee WG. (2008) Designing offline computer science activities for the Korean elementary school curriculum. Portland, OR, USA: 39th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2008), 12-15 Mar 2008. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • O'Donoghue M., Hoskin A. and Bell T. (2008) Guidelines for podcast production and use in tertiary education. Melbourne, Australia: ascilite 2008, 30 Nov-3 Dec 2008. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • Adjeroh D., Kandaswamy U., Zhang N., Mukherjee A., Brown MT. and Bell T. (2007) BWT-Based Efficient Shape Matching. In Proceedings of the 2007 Symposium on Applied Computing: 1079-1085. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Bell T. and Bianco GM. (2007) Computing Pre-University: Primary computing education. In Wah BW (Ed.), Wiley Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Engineering: 625-632. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470050118.ecse973. (Chapters)
  • Bell T., Cockburn A., Wingkvist A. and Green R. (2007) Podcasts as a supplement in tertiary education: An experiment with two Computer Science courses. In MoLTA 2007: 70-77. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Bell T., Witten IH., Fellows M., Kanemune S. and Wada B. (2007) Computer Science Unplugged: Off-line activities and games for all ages (in Japanese). Tokyo. (Authored Books)
  • Bainbridge D. and Bell T. (2006) Identifying music documents in a collection of images. In. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Bell TC., Witten IH., Fellows M., WonGyu L., McKenzie J. and Adams R. (2006) Computer Science Unplugged: Off-line activities and games for all ages (in Korean). Seoul: Hongreung Science Publishing. 119pp. (Authored Books)
  • Gutwin C., Fedak C., Watson M., Bell T. and Dyck J. (2006) Improving Network Efficiency in Real-Time Groupware with General Message Compression. In Proceedings of the 2006 20th Anniversary Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work: 119-128. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Obaid M., Mukundan R. and Bell T. (2006) Enhancement of Moment Based Painterly Rendering Using Connected Components. In Proceedings 2006 International Conference Computer Graphics, Imaging and Visualisation: Techniques and Applications, CGIV'06: 378-383. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CGIV.2006.38. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Bell T., Blizzard D., Green R. and Bainbridge D. (2005) Design of a digital music stand. In Proceedings of ISMIR 2005: 430-433. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Bell T., Church A., McPherson J. and Bainbridge D. (2005) Page turning and image size in a digital music stand. In Paper ID 1262. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Firth A., Bell T., Mukherjee A. and Adjeroh D. (2005) A comparison of BWT approaches to string pattern matching. Software: Practice and Experience 35(13): 1217-1258. (Journal Articles)
  • Jupp R., Syed Y., Grimshaw M., Bell T., Micklewright I., Jones N., Gallagher JW., Dromgoole P. and Brenne EO. (2005) A 3D seismic depth-processing toolkit for sub-basalt imaging. In 67th European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers, EAGE Conference and Exhibition, incorporating SPE EUROPE2005 - Extended Abstracts 67th European Association of Geoscientists and Eng: 3345-3348. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Lobb R., Bell T. and Bainbridge D. (2005) Fast Capture of Sheet Music for an Agile Digital Music Library. In Proceedings of ISMIR 2005: 145-152. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Witten IH., Mofat A., Bell TC. and Nagaraj SV. (2004) Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images. SIGMOD Record 33(2): 113-114. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1024694.1024719. (Journal Articles)
  • Bainbridge D. and Bell T. (2003) A Music Notation Construction Engine for Optical Music Recognition. Software: Practice and Experience 33(2): 173-200. (Journal Articles)
  • Bell T., Thimbleby H., Fellows M., Witten I., Koblitz N. and Powell M. (2003) Explaining Cryptographic Systems. Computers and Education 40(3): 199-215. (Journal Articles)
  • Zhang N., Mukherjee A., Adjeroh DA. and Bell T. (2003) Approximate Pattern Matching Using the Burrows-Wheeler Transform. Snowbird, UT, USA: IEEE 2003 Data Compression Conference (DCC 2003), 25 Mar 2003. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • Adjeroh D., Mukherjee A., Bell T., Powell M. and Zhang Y. (2002) Pattern Matching in BWT-Transformed Text. Snowbird, UT, USA: IEEE 2002 Data Compression Conference (DCC 2002), 2 Apr 2002. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • Adjeroh DA., Zhang Y., Mukherjee A., Powell M. and Bell T. (2002) DNA Sequence Compression Using the Burrows-Wheeler Transform. In Proceedings of CSB 2002: 303-313. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Bell T., Powell M., Mukherjee A. and Adjeroh DA. (2002) Searching BWT Compressed Text with the Boyer-Moore Algorithm and Binary Search. In Proceedings of DCC 2002: 112-121. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Bainbridge D. and Bell T. (2001) The Challenge of Optical Music Recognition. Computers and the Humanities 35(2): 95-121. (Journal Articles)
  • Bainbridge D. and Bell T. (2001) The challenge of optical music recognition. Computers and the Humanities 35(2): 95-121. http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1002485918032. (Journal Articles)
  • Bell T., Adjeroh D. and Mukherjee A. (2001) Pattern matching in compressed texts and images.Department of Computer Science & Software Engineering, University of Canterbury. (Reports)
  • Bell T., Cockburn A., McKenzie B. and Vargo J. (2001) Digital lectures: If you make them, will students use them? Constraints on effective delivery of flexible learning systems. Interactive Multimedia Journal of Computer-Enhanced Learning 3(2). (Journal Articles)
  • Bell T., Cockburn A., McKenzie B. and Vargo J. (2001) Flexible Delivery Damaging to Learning? Lessons From the Canterbury Digital Lectures Project. In Proceedings of EdMedia 2001: 117-122. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Cockburn A., Bell T. and McKenzie B. (2001) Death to the office of the nineties: An HCI perspective on some problems in modern office information systems. Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology 33(1): 68-82. (Journal Articles)
  • Cockburn A., Bell T. and McKenzie B. (2001) Death to the office of the nineties: An HCI perspective on some problems in modern office information systems. Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology 33(1): 68-82. (Journal Articles)
  • McKenzie BJ. and Bell T. (2001) Compression of sparse matrices by blocked Rice coding. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 47(3): 1223-1230. (Journal Articles)
  • Bell T. (2000) A Low-Cost High-Impact Computer Science Show for Family Audiences. In Proceedings of ACSC 2000: 10-16. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Bell T. (2000) Data compression. In Ralston A; Reilly E; Hemmendinger D (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Computer Science: 492-526. London: Nature Publishing Group. (Chapters)
  • Lin K. and Bell T. (2000) Integrating Paper and Digital Music Information Systems. Plymouth, MA, USA: International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval (MUSIC IR 2000), 23 Oct 2000. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • Bell T., Thimbleby H., Fellows M., Witten I. and Koblitz N. (1999) Explaining cryptographic systems to the general public. In Report Series 99-008: Proceedings IFIPTC11 WG11.8 Conference: 221-233. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Bell T., Witten IH. and Fellows M. (1999) Computer Science Unplugged: Offline activities and games for all ages. Christchurch: University of Canterbury. (Authored Books)
  • Lin FY. and Bell T. (1999) Music Processing Using Colour. In : 253-258. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Witten I., Moffat A. and Bell T. (1999) Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and indexing documents and images. (2nd ed.). San Francisco: Morgan Kaufman. 519pp. (Authored Books)
  • Bell T. and McKenzie B. (1998) Compression of sparse matrices by arithmetic coding. In : 23-32. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Cockburn A. and Bell T. (1998) Extending HCI in the computer science curriculum. In : 113-120. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Ng E., Bell T. and Cockburn A. (1998) Improvements to a Pen-Based Musical Input System. In : 239-252. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Ng E., Bell T. and Cockburn A. (1998) Improvements to a pen-based musical input system. In Proceedings - 1998 Australasian Computer Human Interaction Conference, OzCHI 1998 1998-November: 178-185. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/OZCHI.1998.732212. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Arnold R. and Bell T. (1997) A corpus for the evaluation of lossless compression algorithms. In : 201-210. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Bainbridge D. and Bell T. (1997) Dealing with superimposed objects in optical music recognition. In : 756-760. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Moffat A., Bell T. and Witten I. (1997) Lossless compression for text and images. In Jayant N (Ed.), Signal Compression Coding of Speech, Audio, Text, Image and Video, World Scientific, 1997. Also appears as a special issue of the Inter. Journal of High Speed Electronics: 179-231. Singapore: World Scientific Publishers. (Chapters)
  • Anstice J., Bell T., Cockburn A. and Setchell M. (1996) The Design of a Pen-Based Musical Input System. In : 260-267. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Bainbridge D. and Bell T. (1996) An extensible Optical Music Recognition system. In Australian Computer Society Conference Proceedings: 308-317. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Bell T. (1996) An authentic task based computer literacy course. In ACM International Conference Proceeding Series: 295-301. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/369585.369654. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Bell T. (1996) An authentic task-based university level computer literacy course. In Proceedings of 1st Australian Computer Science Education Conference: 295-301. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Murugesh S., Bell T. and Mitrovic A. (1996) Learning by developing expert systems. In Proceedings of New Zealand Computers in Education Society Conference: 191-200. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Bell TC., Bensemann G. and Witten IH. (1995) Computer Science Unplugged: capturing the interest of the uninterested. In Proceedings of the 14th NZ Computer Conference. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Moffat A., Zobel J., Witten IH. and Bell TC. (1995) The role of compression in document databases. ACM SIGWEB Newsletter 4(2): 20-21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/223301.223318. (Journal Articles)
  • Pawlikowski K., Bell T., Emberson H. and Ashton P. (1995) Compression of data traffic in packet-based LANs. In Proceedings of IEEE Data Compression Conference. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Witten IH., Bell TC., Moffat A. and Zobel J. (1995) The MG Retrieval System: Compressing for Space and Speed. Communications of the ACM 38(4): 41-42. (Journal Articles)
  • Witten IH., Cunningham SJ., Vallabh M. and Bell TC. (1995) A New Zealand digital library for computer science research. In Proceedings of Digital Libraries '95: 25-30. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Witten IH., Moffat A. and Bell TC. (1995) Compression and full-text indexing for digital libraries. In Advances in Digital Libraries 916: 181-203. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Bainbridge D. and Bell T. (1994) Playing Music on Computers. New Zealand Science Monthly Nov: 10-11. (Journal Articles)
  • Bell TC. (1994) The view from the tower-the role of academia. In Proceedings of the 1994 NZ Computer Society Rutherford Conference. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Bell TC. and Witten IH. (1994) The relationship between greedy parsing and symbol-wise text compression. Journal of the ACM 41(4): 708-724. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/179812.179892. (Journal Articles)
  • Bell TC., Moffat A. and Witten IH. (1994) Compressing the digital library. In Proceedings of 1st Annual Conference on the Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries: 41-46. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Gutmann PC. and Bell TC. (1994) A Hybrid Approach to Text Compression. In Proceedings of IEEE Data Compression Conference: 225-233. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Moffat A., Sharman N., Witten IH. and Bell TC. (1994) An empirical evaluation of coding methods for multi-symbol alphabets. Information Processing & Management 30(6): 791-804. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0306-4573(94)90007-8. (Journal Articles)
  • Witten IH., Bell TC., Emberson H., Inglis S. and Moffat A. (1994) Textual image compression: two-stage lossy/lossless encoding of textual images. Proceedings of IEEE 82(6): 878-888. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/5.286192. (Journal Articles)
  • Witten IH., Bell TC., Moffat A., Nevill-Manning CG., Smith TC. and Thimbleby H. (1994) Semantic and Generative Models for Lossy Text Compression. The Computer Journal 37(2): 83-87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/comjnl/37.2.83. (Journal Articles)
  • Witten IH., Moffat A. and Bell TC. (1994) Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and indexing documents and images. (1st ed.). New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold. 429. (Authored Books)
  • Bell TC. and Kulp D. (1993) Longest-match string searching for Ziv-Lempel compression. Software: Practice and Experience 23(7): 757-771. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/spe.4380230705. (Journal Articles)
  • Bell TC., Moffat A., Nevill-Manning CG., Witten IH. and Zobel J. (1993) Data compression in full-text retrieval systems. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 44(9): 508-531. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(199310)44:9<508::AID-ASI2>3.0.CO;2-A. (Journal Articles)
  • Bell TC., Moffat A., Nevill‐Manning CG., Witten IH. and Zobel J. (1993) Data compression in full‐text retrieval systems. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 44(9): 508-531. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(199310)44:9<508::AID-ASI2>3.0.CO;2-A. (Journal Articles)
  • Moffat A., Sharman N., Witten IH. and Bell TC. (1993) An empirical evaluation of coding methods for multi-symbol alphabets. In Data Compression Conference Proceedings: 108-117. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/DCC.1993.253139. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Moffat A., Sharman NB., Witten IH. and Bell TC. (1993) An empirical evaluation of coding methods for multi-symbol alphabets. In Proceedings of IEEE Data Compression Conference: 108-117. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Pawlikowski K., Bell T., Emberson H. and Ashton P. (1993) The effect of data compression on packet sizes in data communication systems.. (Reports)
  • Pawlikowski K., Bell T., Emberson H. and Ashton P. (1993) The Effect of Data Compression on Packet Sizes in Data Communication Systems. In. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Witten IH. and Bell TC. (1993) Getting research students started: a tale of two courses. In ACM SIGCSE Conference Proceedings: 165-169. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Bell TC. (1992) Computer Science for the uninterested: designing displays for a science centre. Computers in New Zealand Schools 4(1): 40-46. (Journal Articles)
  • Bell TC. (1992) Making Computer Science into child's play. In : 31-38. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Nevill CG. and Bell TC. (1992) Compression of parallel texts. Information Processing and Management 28(6): 781-793. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0306-4573(92)90068-B. (Journal Articles)
  • Sharman NB., Bell TC. and Witten IH. (1992) Compression of pyramid coded images for progressive transmission. In Proceedings of the 7th New Zealand Image Processing Workshop: 171-176. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Witten IH., Bell TC., Harrison ME., James ML. and Moffat A. (1992) Textual image compression. In Proceedings of IEEE Data Compression Conference: 42-51. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Bell TC. and Pawlikowski K. (1991) The effect of data compression on packet sizes in data communication systems. In Proceedings 13th ITC Congress. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Witten IH. and Bell TC. (1991) The zero frequency problem: Estimating the probabilities of novel events in adaptive text compression. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 37(4): 1085-1094. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/18.87000. (Journal Articles)
  • Witten IH., Bell TC. and Nevill CG. (1991) Indexing and compressing full-text databases for CD-ROM. Journal of Information Science 17(5): 265-271. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/016555159101700502. (Journal Articles)
  • Witten IH., Bell TC. and Nevill CG. (1991) Models for compression in full-text retrieval systems. In Proceedings of IEEE Data Compression Conference: 23-32. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Bell T. and Pawlikowski K. (1990) The effect of data compression on packet sizes in data communication systems.Department of Computer Science, University of Canterbury. (Reports)
  • Bell TC. and Harries R. (1990) Messages found encoded in the digits of π. The Journal of Irreproducible Results 35(4): 28-29. (Journal Articles)
  • Bell TC., Cleary JG. and Witten IH. (1990) Text Compression. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall. 318pp. (Authored Books)
  • McKenzie BJ., Harries R. and Bell TC. (1990) Selecting a hashing algorithm. Software-Practice and Experience 20(2): 209-224. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/spe.4380200207. (Journal Articles)
  • Nevill C. and Bell T. (1990) Compression of parallel texts.Department of Computer Science, University of Canterbury. (Reports)
  • Nevill CG. and Bell TC. (1990) Compression of parallel texts. In Proceedings of Joint ALLC/ACH Conference. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Witten IH. and Bell TC. (1990) Source models for natural language text. International Journal of Man-Machine Studies 32(5): 545-579. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0020-7373(05)80033-1. (Journal Articles)
  • Bell T. and Kulp D. (1989) Longest match string searching for Ziv-Lempel compression.Department of Computer Science, University of Canterbury. (Reports)
  • Bell TC. (1989) Compression rate fluctuation in data communication systems. In Proceedings of 4th Australian Teletraffic Research Seminar. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Bell TC. and Moffat A. (1989) A note on the DMC data compression scheme. Computer Journal 32(1): 16-20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/comjnl/32.1.16. (Journal Articles)
  • Bell TC., Witten IH. and Cleary JG. (1989) Modeling for text compression. ACM Computing Surveys 21(4): 557-591. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/76894.76896. (Journal Articles)
  • McKenzie B., Harries R. and Bell T. (1989) Selecting a hashing algorithm.Department of Computer Science, University of Canterbury. (Reports)
  • Witten IH. and Bell TC. (1988) Modeling natural language. In Proceedings of the 6th Symposium of Empirical Foundations of Information and Software Sciences. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Bell TC. (1986) Better OPM/L text compression. IEEE Transactions on Communications 34(12): 1176-1182. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TCOM.1986.1096485. (Journal Articles)

Review and Refereeing

  • Computer Journal; Software - Practice and Experience; ISMIR and DCC conferences. ( 1988 - 2023)
  • Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education; Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education; Australian Computer Education; Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computering Education; WiPSCE; International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval; Software-Practice and Experience; The Computer Journal; CHI conference ( 1988 - 2023)

Research Groups

  • Computer Graphics and Medical Image Analysis Group (CGMIA)
  • HCI and Multimedia Lab (HCI Lab)

Key Methodologies

  • Children and computers
  • Algorithms
  • Computer music
  • Text compression
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