Steve Pettifer
British computer scientist (born 1970)
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Stephen Robert Pettifer (born September 21, 1970[1]) is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manchester in England.[6][7]
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| Born | Stephen Robert Pettifer September 21, 1970[1][2] |
| Education | University of Manchester |
| Known for | UTOPIA (Bioinformatics tools) Utopia Documents |
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| Thesis | An operating environment for large scale virtual reality (1999) |
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| Website | aig www |
Education
Pettifer completed his Bachelor of Science degree and PhD in the Department of Computer Science, and work on virtual reality under the supervision of Adrian West in 1999.[4]
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.[8][9] 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[10] with Terri Attwood and Dave Thorne.
As of 2017[update] Pettifer teaches on part of the Advanced Computer Graphics course and Fundamentals of Distributed Systems.[8]
