Academic Staff information    

Mr Peter Jones   BSc Liv, MSc Essex  Adjunct Senior Lecturer

In July 2007 Peter took up an adjunct position in the School.
After graduating from Liverpool, England, Peter worked on digital logic design at Plessey plc. Then moved back to academe first as Research Officer and then as a lecturer after a Master in Computer Science in 1977. He has held appointments at the University of Essex (Computer Science and then Electronic Systems Engineering); and Sheffield Hallam University (Computer Studies). On coming to UWA in 1989 he joined Electrical & Electronic Engineering and then in 2000 moved to the Department of Computer Science & Software Engineering.

Training Courses:

Advanced C++

• C vs C++ ; Correct use of C++ features
• Industrial strength C++
• C++ Library, Templates, STL, Boost

Research:

Programming & Software Engineering
A new OO Programming Language NovaTalk that uses pictographic representations of the program instead of pure text. It will use Eclipse as the framework and Java as the intermediary language.

Electronic Health Records

Assistive Technology
A variety of projects, the current one is using Braille display and keyboard for an Instant Messenger. Previously, a virtual on-screen predictive keyboard for users with severe motor impairment.

Contact details:

	Mr Peter Jones School of Computer Science & Software Engineering The University of Western Australia M002, 35 Stirling Highway Crawley, Western Australia, 6009
	+61 8 6488 2716
	+61 8 6488 1089
	E-Mail:
	Homepage: http://people.csse.uwa.edu.au/peterj