Stephen Robert Pettifer (born September 21, 1970) is a

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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

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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

. 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

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'' 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

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pettifer, Stephen Robert 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