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Nigel Barlow

 

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Dr Nigel Barlow

  • Job title: Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in Computing, School of Computing and Mathematics (Faculty of Science and Technology)
  • Address: B313, Portland Square, Drake Circus,
    Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA
  • Email: nigel.barlow@plymouth.ac.uk


Role

Programme Manager for:
BSc (Hons) Computing (Programme 2594)
BSc (Hons) Computer Science (Programme 3429, validated December 06)
BSc (Hons) Computing for Commerce and Business (Programme 3149)
BSc (Hons) Computing and Software Development (Programme 3150)
BSc (Hons) Computing and Web Technologies (Programme 3152)
Stage1 tutor for the first two of the above

Research active in high performance real-time graphics, visualisation, embedded and distributed systems.

Partner College Link (City of Bristol College, North Devon College, Somerset College of Art and Technology).

 

 

 

Qualifications & background

PhD (Underwater Acoustics)
MSc (Electronics)
BSc (Hons) (Electronics)

 

Professional membership

MIET
BCS (Educational Affiliate)

 


Teaching interests

High Performance Real Time Computer Graphics (in other words games programming)

Software Engineering

Distributed Computing

Embedded Systems programming

Real-time programming 

 


Research interests
High Performance Real Time Graphics
Distributed Computing
Embedded Computing 

Grants & contracts
Knowledge Transfer Partnership  MTS Research, Penzance.  KTP Programme Number: KTP006568, with Dr Andy Phippen and Ms Lynne Butel 


Publications

Somerville J., Stuart L. J., Barlow N., Easy Grocery: A Tool for Visualization in e-Grocery, Tenth International Conference on Information Visualisation (IV'06) pp. 539-544.


Barlow N., Stuart L. J., Animator: A Tool for the Animation of Parallel Coordinates, Eighth International Conference on Information Visualisation (IV'04) pp. 725-730. This publication is submitted in the RAE (Thanks to Dr Stuart).


Bugmann G., Koay K. L., Barlow N., Phillips M., and Rodney D., Stable Encoding of Robot Trajectories using Normalised Radial Base Functions: Application to an Autonomous Wheelchair, Proceedings of the 29th International Symposium on Robotics (ISR'98), pages 232-235, Birmingham, UK, 1998.

 



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