Tim Bell (computer scientist)

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Residence New Zealand Role Computer scientist		Name Tim Bell Education Nelson College

Thesis A unifying theory and improvements for existing approaches to text compression (1986) Books Text compression, Pattern Matching in Compressed Texts and Images Fields Computer Science, Computer music, Data compression
Alma mater University of Canterbury

Timothy Clinton Bell is a New Zealand computer scientist, with interests in computer science education, computer music and text compression.

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Bell was educated at Nelson College from 1975 to 1979. After completing his PhD, with a thesis titled A unifying theory and improvements for existing approaches to text compression, at the University of Canterbury he joined the staff and rose to professor and head of department.

In parallel with his academic work he has developed Computer Science Unplugged, a system of activities for teaching computer science without computers. The system was actively promoted by Google in 2007.

Selected works

Text compression Timothy C Bell, John G Cleary and I H Witten. Prentice Hall, 1990. ISBN 0139119914

Witten, Ian H.; Moffat, Alistair; Bell, Timothy Clinton (1999). Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and indexing documents and images (2 ed.). Morgan Kaufmann Publishers. ISBN 978-1-55860-570-1. 1558605703.

A corpus for the evaluation of lossless compression algorithms Timothy C Bell. Data Compression Conference 1997

The challenge of optical music recognition David Bainbridge and Timothy C Bell. Computers and the Humanities, 2001.

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