Department of Computer Science

Peter Brown Selected Publications Annotating electronic documents: can it be made as useful as annotating paper documents? European Science Editing, 32(1), pp. 5-8, Feb. 2006. Invited speaker for the 2005 EASE seminar, Barcelona. Electronically integrating the reading and writing of documents: an unexploited aid to education, P.J. Brown, H. Brown. Accepted for ED-MEDIA 2004, Lugano, Switzerland. Context-aware retrieval for ubiquitous computing environments, G.J.F. Jones, P.J. Brown. Invited paper in Mobile and ubiquitous information access, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2954, pp. 227-243, 2004, (extended/updated version of earlier Pervasive 2002 paper). A link-oriented comparison of hyperdocuments and programs. P.J. Brown, H. Brown, W. Milne, L. Carr, W. Hall, L. Moreau. in King & Munson (eds.) Digital documents: systems and principles, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2023, pp. 1-12, 2004. Integrating reading and writing of documents, P.J. Brown, H. Brown. Journal of Digital Information, 5, 1, 2004. (Link to version at JODI site) From information retrieval to hypertext linking. P.J. Brown. New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, Vol. 8, pp. 231-255, 2002. Challenges and opportunities for context-aware retrieval on mobile devices. G.J.F. Jones, P.J. Brown. SIGIR workshop on Mobile Personal Information Retrieval, Tampere, Finland, pp. 47-56, 2002. Context-aware retrieval for pervasive computing environments. G.J.F. Jones, P.J. Brown. in Mattern & Naghshineh (eds.) Pervasive 2002, Zurich, (short paper), pp. 10-27, 2002. Exploiting contextual change in context-aware retrieval. P.J. Brown, G.J.F. Jones. Proceedings of the 17th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2002), Madrid, ACM Press, New York, pp. 650-656, 2002. Two contributions in Encyclopedia of Computer Science, A. Ralston, E.D. Reilly & D. Hemmerdinger (Eds.), Grove's Dictionaries, N.Y., pp. 1066-8, 1633-5, 2000. Context-aware retrieval: exploring a new environment for information retrieval and information filtering . P. J. Brown, G.J.F. Jones. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 5, 4, pp. 253-263, 2001. Information access for context-aware appliances. G.J.F. Jones, P.J. Brown. Proceedings of ACM SIGIR 2000, Athens, Greece, July 2000. Panel: towards a better understanding of context and context-awareness . P. J. Brown, N. Davies, M. Smith, P. Steggles. in H-W Gellersen (Ed.) Hand-held and ubiquitous computing: HUC'99 proceedings, Springer, 1999. Triggering information by context. P. J. Brown. Personal Technologies, 2(1):1-9, September 1998. Context aware: the dawn of sentient computing?. J. Pascoe, N. S. Ryan, and P. J. Brown. GPS World, 9(9):22-30, September 1998. Some lessons for location-aware applications. Proceedings of first workshop on HCI for mobile devices. Glasgow University, May 1998. Context-aware applications: from the laboratory to the marketplace. P. J. Brown, J. D. Bovey, and X. Chen. IEEE Personal Communications, 4(5):58-64, October 1997. Postscript version Building novel software: the researcher and the market-place. P. J. Brown. In R. Milner and I. Wand, editors, Computing Tomorrow: Future Directions in Computer Science, pages 21-32. Cambridge University Press, January 1996. The stick-e document: a framework for creating context-aware applications. P. J. Brown. In Proceedings of EP'96, Palo Alto, pages 259-272. also published in EP-odd, January 1996. Postscript version Embedded or separate hypertext mark-up: is it an issue?. P. J. Brown and H. Brown. EP-odd, 8(1):1-13, January 1995. HTML version; Postscript version (a bit broken) Taking a stroll down babel street. P. J. Brown. In A. Davidson, editor, Humor the Computer, pages 165-168. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., January 1995. The design of a human memory prosthesis. M. G. Lamming, P. J. Brown, et al.. Computer Journal, 37(3):153-163, January 1994. Marking EP coursework using electronic communication. Peter J. Brown and Richard E. Jones. Electronic Publishing: Origination, Dissemination and Design, 5(2), June 1992. Also in BIGRE 79, Teaching Electronic Publishing, TEP'92 Proceedings, Lausanne, April 7, 1992. Unix guide: lessons from ten years' development. P. J. Brown. In D. Lucarella et al., editors, Proceedings of the ACM conference on Hypertext, pages 63-70. ACM Press, New York, January 1992. Assessing the quality of hypertext documents (keynote address to ECHT'90). P. J. Brown. In A. Rizk et al., editors, Hypertext: Concepts, Systems and Applications, pages 1-12. Cambridge University Press, January 1990. Viewing documents on a screen. P. J. Brown. In Steve Lambert and Suzanne Ropiequet, editors, CD ROM: the New Papyrus, pages 175-184. Microsoft Press, Redmond, Wa., January 1986. Compiler Servers for the Cambridge Ring. P.J. Brown and P.H. Welch. The Coordinated Programme of Research in Distributed Computing Systems (1977..1984) - Final Report (SERC), January 1984. Starting with unix. P. J. Brown. Addison-Wesley, January 1984. Pascal from Basic. P. J. Brown. Addison-Wesley, January 1982. Writing interactive compilers and interpreters. P. J. Brown. Wiley, January 1979. Macro processors and techniques for portable software. P. J. Brown. Wiley, January 1974. (my PhD thesis -- available completely on-line, thanks to Bob Eager) Macro processors and their use in implementing portable software , Cambridge University, 1968. (and my very first paper) Note on the non-existence of a phrase structure grammar for Algol 60. P.J. Brown. Comm. ACM 6, 3 (March 1963). Also see miscellaneous papers available on-line and complete on-line materials. [ Research and Professional Activities ] [ Selected Publications ] [ Teaching ] [ Contact ] [ Personal Homepage ] [ DCS Home ]