Stephen Robert Pettifer (born September 21, 1970
) is a
Professor
Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an academic rank at universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin as a "person who professes". Professors ...
in the
Department of Computer Science at the
University of Manchester
, mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity
, established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univ ...
in England.
Education
Pettifer completed his
Bachelor of Science
A Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, SB, or ScB; from the Latin ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for programs that generally last three to five years.
The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Science was the University o ...
degree and
PhD in the
Department of Computer Science, and work on
virtual reality
Virtual reality (VR) is a simulated experience that employs pose tracking and 3D near-eye displays to give the user an immersive feel of a virtual world. Applications of virtual reality include entertainment (particularly video games), e ...
under the supervision of Adrian West in 1999.
Research and career
Pettifer's research interests are centred on the design of advanced interfaces for computer systems, in particular:
scientific visualisation,
scholarly publishing, and
virtual reality
Virtual reality (VR) is a simulated experience that employs pose tracking and 3D near-eye displays to give the user an immersive feel of a virtual world. Applications of virtual reality include entertainment (particularly video games), e ...
.
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 Gap''
with
Terri Attwood
Teresa K. Attwood is a Professor of Bioinformatics in the Department of Computer Science and School of Biological Sciences at the University of Manchester and a visiting fellow at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI). She held a Roy ...
and Dave Thorne.
Pettifer teaches on part of the ''Advanced
Computer Graphics
Computer graphics deals with generating images with the aid of computers. Today, computer graphics is a core technology in digital photography, film, video games, cell phone and computer displays, and many specialized applications. A great de ...
'' course and ''Fundamentals of
Distributed Systems
A distributed system is a system whose components are located on different networked computers, which communicate and coordinate their actions by passing messages to one another from any system. Distributed computing is a field of computer sci ...
''.
References
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Academics of the University of Manchester
People associated with the Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester
Living people
1970 births
Alumni of the University of Manchester