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Peter Brown

Contact Details

Emeritus Professor of Computer Science
Email: P.J.Brown@ex.ac.uk
Address: Computing Laboratory
University of Kent
Canterbury
Kent, CT2 7NF
Telephone: +44 (0)1227 827694 (direct line)
Facsimile: +44 (0)1227 762811

* Research Interests

Until recently my research centered round hypertext. I created a hypertext system, Guide, which introduced several novel features in terms of how documents can be presented. Guide won the British Computer Society award for technical innovation, and has been featured in a Royal Society INTERLINKS exhibition. It is now a commercial product on the PC, marketed by InfoAccess of Bellvue, Washington, USA. The UNIX version is available through the university.

I have now developed a strong research interest in context-aware mobile computer applications. I have developed a technology called stick-e notes, which is designed to make it easy for authors to create context-aware applications, e.g. a tourist application for a city where information automatically popped up on the tourist's PDA screen as they moved around the city. We now have two outside grants to support this work, and a quite extensive research programme.

I have links with Xerox European Research Laboratory in Cambridge (now at Grenoble), and have worked there for two periods on sabbatical.

(Link to Wordsworth work.)

* Recent Publications





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