Harold Thimbleby Explained

Harold W. Thimbleby (born 19 July 1955) is a British professor of computer science at Swansea University, Wales. He is known for his works on user interface design within the realm of human computer interaction.^[1]

Overview

Harold Thimbleby held the post of director of UCLIC, University College London's Interaction Centre, from its establishment in 2001. From 2001 to 2004, he was also the 28th Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, London. Thimbleby founded the Future Interaction Technology Lab^[2] at Swansea University in 2005.^[3]

Thimbleby runs the Swansea University Research Forum, as well as giving talks on science and religion.

Research interests

Thimbleby's research interests include:

• Interactive handwriting calculators^{[4] [5]}
• Improving medical devices http://cs.swan.ac.uk/~csharold/health/
• Improving ethics in research http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/~csharold/ethics/index.html
• Markov Modeling http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/~csharold/Markov/index.html
• Matrix Modeling http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/~csharold/matrixweb/index.html

Selected works

• Article on literate programming,1986 (Winner of the British Computer Society Wilkes Award.^[6])^[7]
• User Interface Design, Addison-Wesley, 1990.
• HyperProgramming, with G. F. Coulouris, Addison-Wesley, 1990.
• Press On, MIT Press, 2007. (Winner, in the Computer and Information Sciences category, of the Association of American Publishers' Publishing Awards for Excellence competition.^[8])
• The Diversity and Ethics, with Paul Cairns, University College London Interaction Center.

External links

• Harold Thimbleby home page

Notes and References

1. Web site: Professor Harold Thimbleby . swansea.ac.uk . 7 September 2021.
2. http://www.fitlab.eu/ Future Interaction Technology Lab
3. Web site: Human Computer Interaction: FIT Lab - Swansea University . swansea.ac.uk . 7 September 2021.
4. http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/calculators/ Calculators
5. Lucy Sherriff, Super calculators make maths super-easy, The Register, UK, 28 June 2005.
6. Web site: Harold Thimbleby - CV - 'Programming' only . harold.thimbleby.net . 7 February 2006 . 7 September 2021.
7. Experiences of 'Literate Programming' using cweb (a variant of Knuth's WEB) . The Computer Journal . 1 January 1986 . 29 . 3 . 201–211 . 10.1093/comjnl/29.3.201 . free . Thimbleby . H. .
8. Web site: 2007 Award Winners - PROSE AWARDS . proseawards.com . 7 September 2021.