Research
Research interests
- Open Data
- Open Access
- Minecraft
- Public understanding of Research
- Research Communication
Publications
Pagination
Biography
Christopher has worked in ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓÆµ data and web systems since 1997, when Electronics and Computer Science hired him as a webmaster. He was lead developer for version 2.0 and 3.0 of the software and because of this was involved in the early days of the open access movement. He set up the ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓÆµ , for which he accepted a THE award on behalf of the University. In 2018 Christopher was in recognition of outstanding contribution to the information profession.
Christopher is currently a member of the in iSolutions, the university IT department.
Christopher has built many University systems and services including
- (with Jules Field) The all.soton system for automatically creating mailing lists from HR & student data
- (with Jules Field) The ECS Intranet & Handin System
- (with the Library) The University
- The ECS Loadings system
- (with other members of the Technical Innovation Team) CAPE - a tool for making static websites with browser side search and browse of datasets provided by Excel sheets
Chris takes an interest in how AI can be used and misused.
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Prizes
- Times Higher Education THE Award Winner: Outstanding ICT Initiative of the Year (2012)
- Jason Farradane Winner (2017)
- UK's Unix & Open Systems User Group 2005 (2005)
- Times Higher Education THE Award Winner: Outstanding ICT Initiative of the Year (2012)
- Jason Farradane Winner (2017)
- UK's Unix & Open Systems User Group 2005 (2005)