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D-Index
39
Citations
14829
World Ranking
9492
National Ranking
22

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - ACM Distinguished Member

Overview

Tim Bell is affiliated with the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and operates primarily within the field of Computer Science. Their research encompasses multiple subfields, including Computer Science Applications, Information Systems, Economics and Econometrics, Artificial Intelligence, and Education.

The main focus of their work is on Teaching and Learning Programming, a topic associated with the majority of their publications. Other research areas addressed include Software Engineering Research, Online Learning and Analytics, Embedded Systems Design Techniques, Software Testing and Debugging Techniques, Engineering Education and Technology, and E-Learning and Knowledge Management.

Tim Bell has contributed to various academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include Communications of the ACM, Journal of Pedagogical Research, ACM Inroads, Value in Health, and ACM Transactions on Computing Education.

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Tim Bell are:

  • Computer science without computers: new outreach methods from old tricks (2024, Lancaster EPrints)
  • CS unplugged or coding classes? (2021, Communications of the ACM)
  • Providing a CS unplugged experience at a distance (2022, ACM Inroads)

Other related work appearing in the scholarly record, co-authored by frequent collaborators, covers topics with interdisciplinary links such as health economics.

Frequent co-authors in their research include Bhagya Munasinghe, Anthony Robins, Tracy Henderson, Deirdre Mladsi, and Christine Barnett.

Tim Bell's recognition includes the ACM Distinguished Member award received in 2018.

Best Publications

  • Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images

    I.H. Witten;A. Moffat;T.C. Bell

  • Text Compression

    Timothy C. Bell;John G. Cleary;Ian H. Witten

  • Managing gigabytes (2nd ed.): compressing and indexing documents and images

    Ian H. Witten;Alistair Moffat;Timothy C. Bell

  • The zero-frequency problem: estimating the probabilities of novel events in adaptive text compression

    I.H. Witten;T.C. Bell

  • Computer science unplugged: school students doing real computing without computers

    Tim Bell;Jason Alexander;Isaac Freeman;Mick Grimley

  • Modeling for text compression

    Timothy Bell;Ian H. Witten;John G. Cleary

  • Computer science in K-12 school curricula of the 2lst century: Why, what and when?

    Mary Webb;Niki Davis;Tim Bell;Yaacov J. Katz

  • A corpus for the evaluation of lossless compression algorithms

    R. Arnold;T. Bell

  • The Burrows-Wheeler Transform:: Data Compression, Suffix Arrays, and Pattern Matching

    Donald Adjeroh;Timothy Bell;Amar Mukherjee

  • The Challenge of Optical Music Recognition

    David Bainbridge;Tim Bell

  • Computer science unplugged and related projects in math and computer science popularization

    Tim Bell;Frances Rosamond;Nancy Casey

  • Should your 8-year-old learn coding?

    Caitlin Duncan;Tim Bell;Steve Tanimoto

  • CS Unplugged—How Is It Used, and Does It Work?

    Tim Bell;Jan Vahrenhold

  • Computer Science Unplugged: off-line activities and games for all ages

    Tim Bell;Ian H. Witten;Mike Fellows

  • A Pilot Computer Science and Programming Course for Primary School Students

    Caitlin Duncan;Tim Bell

  • Cloud Types and Services

    Hai Jin;Shadi Ibrahim;Tim Bell;Wei Gao

  • Better OPM/L Text Compression

    T. Bell

  • A Case Study of the Introduction of Computer Science in NZ Schools

    Tim Bell;Peter Andreae;Anthony Robins

  • Podcasts as a supplement in tertiary education: an experiment with two Computer Science courses

    Tim Bell;Andy Cockburn;Anna Wingkvist;Richard Green

  • Data compression in full-text retrieval systems

    Timothy C. Bell;Alistair Moffat;Craig G. Nevill-Manning;Ian H. Witten

  • Man-aging Gigabytes: Compressing and Indexing Docu-ments and Images

    Ian H. Witten;Alistair Moffat;Timothy C. Bell

Frequent Co-Authors

Ian H. Witten
Ian H. Witten University of Waikato
Alistair Moffat
Alistair Moffat University of Melbourne
Donald A. Adjeroh
Donald A. Adjeroh West Virginia University
Andy Cockburn
Andy Cockburn University of Canterbury
Michael R. Fellows
Michael R. Fellows Lebanese American University
Justin Zobel
Justin Zobel University of Melbourne
Hai Jin
Hai Jin Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Harold Thimbleby
Harold Thimbleby Swansea University
Joke Voogt
Joke Voogt University of Amsterdam
Peter J. Denning
Peter J. Denning Naval Postgraduate School

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