Timothy Clinton Bell CNZM is a New Zealand computer scientist, with interests in computer science education, computer music and text compression. In 2017, it was announced by SIGCSE that Bell would receive the 2018 award for 'Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education'.[1][2]
Tim Bell | |
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Born | Timothy Clinton Bell |
Education | Nelson College |
Alma mater | University of Canterbury |
Awards | Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education (2018) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Computer science education, computer music and text compression |
Thesis | A unifying theory and improvements for existing approaches to text compression (1986) |
Doctoral advisor | John Penny |
Website | www |
Bell was educated at Nelson College from 1975 to 1979.[3] He completed his PhD at the University of Canterbury, with a thesis titled A unifying theory and improvements for existing approaches to text compression.[4]
Bell joined the staff and rose to professor and head of department. In parallel with his academic work he has developed Computer Science Unplugged, a system of activities for teaching computer science without computers.[5] The system was actively promoted by Google in 2007.[6]
In the 2024 New Year Honours, Bell was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to computer science education.[7]