Harold Thimbleby

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Prof Harold Thimbleby was born on 19th July 1955 and is a computer scientist who works in user interface design, particularly taking a computing point of view. He won the British Computer Society Wilkes Medal for his work in literate programming.

He is Professor of Computer Science at Swansea University, Wales, where he founded the Future Interaction Technology Lab [1]. He was 28th Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, London and does much work to assist the public understanding of science [2].

He and his son Will Thimbleby [3] have developed and implemented an interactive calculator, that uses handwriting recognition and morphing [4]. This was exhibited in 2005 at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition; it will next be exhibited at the 2006 Eisteddfod.

[edit] Selected works

  • User Interface Design, Addison-Wesley, 1990.
  • Press On, MIT Press, in press.
  • HyperProgramming, with G. F. Coulouris, Addison-Wesley, 1990.

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