Doctoral advisor Adrian West Name Steve Pettifer | ||
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Institutions University of Manchester
Lost Island Labs Ltd. Thesis An operating environment for large scale virtual reality (1999) Doctoral students Andrew Brown
Manuel Corpas
James Marsh
Philip McDermott
David Thorne
Neil Vass Known for UTOPIA (Bioinformatics tools)
Utopia Documents Fields Bioinformatics, Computer graphics | ||
Alma mater University of Manchester | ||
Steve pettifer at openoxford
Stephen Robert Pettifer (b. September 21, 1970) is a Reader in the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester, UK.
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Education
Pettifer completed his Bachelor of Science and PhD in the School of Computer Science, and work on virtual reality under the supervision of Adrian West in 1999.
Research
Pettifer's research interests are centred on the design of advanced interfaces for computer systems, in particular: scientific visualisation, scholarly publishing, and virtual reality. His main research project revolves around Utopia Documents, a novel tool for interacting with the scientific literature.
He is a co-author of the bioinformatics textbook Bioinformatics Challenges at the Interface of Biology and Computer Science: Mind the GapWith Terri Attwood and Dave Thorne.
Teaching
Pettifer currently teaches on part of the Advanced Computer Graphics course and Fundamentals of Distributed Systems.