Tim Bell
#115,050
Most Influential Person Now
Computer scientist
Tim Bell 's AcademicInfluence.com Rankings
Tim Bell computer-science Degrees
Computer Science
#7465
World Rank
#7862
Historical Rank
Database
#7645
World Rank
#7941
Historical Rank

Download Badge
Computer Science
Why Is Tim Bell Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Timothy Clinton Bell 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'.
Tim Bell 's Published Works
Number of citations in a given year to any of this author's works
Total number of citations to an author for the works they published in a given year. This highlights publication of the most important work(s) by the author
Published Works
- Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images (1999) (2260)
- The zero-frequency problem: Estimating the probabilities of novel events in adaptive text compression (1991) (857)
- Managing gigabytes (2nd ed.): compressing and indexing documents and images (1999) (754)
- Text Compression (1990) (727)
- Computer science unplugged: school students doing real computing without computers (2009) (311)
- Modeling for text compression (1989) (284)
- A corpus for the evaluation of lossless compression algorithms (1997) (212)
- The Burrows-Wheeler Transform:: Data Compression, Suffix Arrays, and Pattern Matching (2008) (197)
- Computer science in K-12 school curricula of the 2lst century: Why, what and when? (2017) (192)
- A Pilot Computer Science and Programming Course for Primary School Students (2015) (129)
- Computer Science Unplugged: off-line activities and games for all ages (1998) (125)
- Should your 8-year-old learn coding? (2014) (114)
- Computer Science Unplugged and Related Projects in Math and Computer Science Popularization (2012) (102)
- A Case Study of the Introduction of Computer Science in NZ Schools (2014) (95)
- Compressing and indexing documents and images (1999) (94)
- CS Unplugged - How Is It Used, and Does It Work? (2018) (93)
- Data Compression in Full-Text Retrieval Systems (1993) (90)
- Managing gigabytes 2nd edition (1999) (87)
- Foundations and Trends R © in Signal Processing (2013) (71)
- Computer Science Unplugged - an enrichment and extension programme for primary-aged children (2002) (69)
- Computer Science in New Zealand high schools (2010) (67)
- Better OPM/L Text Compression (1986) (65)
- Textual image compression: two-stage lossy/lossless encoding of textual images (1994) (65)
- Podcasts as a supplement in tertiary education: an experiment with two Computer Science courses (2007) (60)
- The introduction of computer science to NZ high schools: an analysis of student work (2012) (59)
- DNA sequence compression using the Burrows-Wheeler Transform (2002) (57)
- A CS unplugged design pattern (2009) (55)
- CS Unplugged: An enrichment and extension programme for primary-aged students (2015) (53)
- Enthusing & inspiring with reusable kinaesthetic activities (2009) (47)
- The role of teachers in implementing curriculum changes (2013) (46)
- An empirical evaluation of coding methods for multi-symbol alphabets (1993) (43)
- Longest‐match string searching for ziv‐lempel compression (1993) (41)
- An Authoring Tool for Mobile Phone AR Environments (2009) (37)
- What do the Teachers Think?: Introducing Computational Thinking in the Primary School Curriculum (2017) (37)
- Flexible Delivery Damaging to Learning? Lessons from the Canterbury Digital Lectures Project. (2001) (37)
- Selecting a hashing algorithm (1990) (35)
- Adoption of new computer science high school standards by New Zealand teachers (2013) (35)
- Source Models for Natural Language Text (1990) (34)
- A Note on the DMC Data Compression Scheme (1989) (34)
- Evaluation of games for teaching computer science (2013) (32)
- Semantic and Generative Models for Lossy Text Compression (1994) (31)
- Integrating Computational Thinking with a Music Education Context (2018) (30)
- Improving network efficiency in real-time groupware with general message compression (2006) (29)
- A low-cost high-impact computer science show for family audiences (2000) (28)
- The MG retrieval system: compressing for space and speed (1995) (27)
- Computer science in NZ high schools: the first year of the new standards (2012) (27)
- Overcoming Obstacles to CS Education by Using Non-programming Outreach Programmes (2011) (24)
- Models for compression in full-text retrieval systems (1991) (23)
- Lossless Compression for Text and Images (1997) (22)
- The relationship between greedy parsing and symbolwise text compression (1994) (22)
- Establishing a nationwide CS curriculum in New Zealand high schools (2014) (22)
- The Information Paradox (2012) (21)
- Explaining cryptographic systems (2003) (21)
- The Cambridge Handbook of Computing Education Research Summarized in 75 minutes (2020) (21)
- Introducing students to computer science with programmes that don't emphasise programming (2011) (20)
- Compression of Parallel Texts (1992) (19)
- Unplugging computer science (2013) (19)
- Computer science without computers: new outreach methods from old tricks (2008) (19)
- A unifying theory and improvements for existing approaches to text compression (1986) (16)
- Pattern matching in BWT-transformed text (2002) (16)
- Computational thinking is more about humans than computers (2016) (14)
- Constructing Computational Thinking Without Using Computers (2019) (14)
- A hybrid approach to text compression (1994) (14)
- Presenting Computer Science Concepts to High School Students (2014) (14)
- The Big Ideas in Computer Science for K-12 Curricula (2018) (13)
- A New Zealand Digital Library for Computer Science Research (1995) (13)
- Teaching computer science concepts in Scratch and Alice (2010) (12)
- Getting research students started: a tale of two courses (1993) (12)
- CS unplugged, outreach and CS kinesthetic activities (abstract only) (2012) (12)
- Teacher Feedback on Delivering Computational Thinking in Primary School (2016) (11)
- Computer Science Unplugged [video] (2012) (11)
- Textual image compression (1992) (11)
- Indexing and compressing full-text databases for CD-ROM (1991) (11)
- Analysis of Progression of Scratch Users based on their Use of Elementary Patterns (2019) (11)
- Analysing Students’ Scratch Programs and Addressing Issues using Elementary Patterns (2018) (10)
- Explaining cryptographic systems to the general public (1999) (10)
- COMPRESSING THE DIGITAL LIBRARY (1994) (10)
- Pattern Matching in Compressed Texts and Images (2013) (10)
- Extending HCI in the computer science curriculum (1998) (10)
- Computer Science in the School Curriculum: Issues and Challenges (2017) (9)
- Compression and full-text indexing for digital libraries (1994) (9)
- Approximate pattern matching using the Burrows-Wheeler transform (2003) (8)
- Teaching Computing in Primary Schools (2018) (7)
- Evaluating the Use of Remixing in Scratch Projects Based on Repertoire, Lines of Code (LOC), and Elementary Patterns (2019) (7)
- Designing offline computer science activities for the korean elementary school curriculum (2008) (6)
- SOURCE MODELS FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE (1988) (6)
- Making Computer Science Activities Accessible for the Languages and Cultures of Japan, Korea, China and Sweden (2008) (6)
- Tensions in specifying computing curricula for K-12: Towards a principled approach for objectives (2018) (6)
- He ara hou ka tū mai: NZ institutions of higher learning unpacking demands and facilitating change (2011) (6)
- PlaySMART: Developing thinking and problem solving skills in the context of the National Curriculum for Physical Education in England (2004) (6)
- Enhancement of Moment Based Painterly Rendering Using Connected Components (2006) (6)
- What is coding (2017) (6)
- Compression of sparse matrices by arithmetic coding (1998) (6)
- Computational Thinking (2019) (6)
- Computer Science in K-12 Education: The Big Picture (2018) (5)
- Virtually Unplugged: Rich Data Capture to Evaluate CS Pedagogy in 3D Virtual Worlds (2015) (5)
- Simple Arabic Stemmer (2014) (5)
- Adoption of Computer Science in NZ schools (2014) (5)
- A Computer Science Study Abroad with Service Learning: Design and Reflections (2018) (5)
- Using Virtual Worlds to Engage Typical and Special Needs Students in Kinesthetic Computer Science Activities: A Computer Science Unplugged Case Study (2009) (4)
- Surprising Computer Science (2015) (4)
- Combining Simulation and Animation of Queueing Scenarios in a Flash-Based Discrete Event Simulator (2009) (4)
- Kinesthetic computer science activities in a virtual world (2009) (4)
- A comparison of BWT approaches to string pattern matching (2005) (4)
- Teaching computer science majors about teaching computer science (2011) (4)
- Teachers’ understanding of technical terms in a Computational Thinking curriculum (2021) (4)
- Ubiquity symposium: The science in computer science: unplugging computer science to find the science (2014) (4)
- The Big Ideas of K-12 Computer Science Education (3)
- Man-aging Gigabytes: Compressing and Indexing Docu-ments and Images (1999) (3)
- BWT-based efficient shape matching (2007) (3)
- Computer science unplugged, robotics, and outreach activities (abstract only) (2012) (3)
- What's the Big Idea with CS Education in K-12? (2018) (3)
- The effect of data compression on packet sizes in data communication systems (1990) (3)
- CS unplugged or coding classes? (2021) (3)
- Security on the Farm: Safely Communicating with Legacy Agricultural Instrumentation (2019) (3)
- Guidelines for podcast production and use in tertiary education (2008) (2)
- Compression of sparse matrices by blocked rice coding (2001) (2)
- Variants of the Burrows-Wheeler Transform (2008) (2)
- Demystifying coding for schools - what are we actually trying to teach? (2016) (2)
- Teaching Resources for Young Programmers: the use of Patterns (2020) (2)
- Death to the Office of the Nineties: An HCI Perspective on Some Problems in Modern Office Information Systems (2001) (2)
- Analysis of the Burrows-Wheeler Transform (2008) (2)
- MODELING NATURAL LANGUAGE (1988) (2)
- A game to teach network communication reliability problems and solutions (2014) (2)
- An authentic task based computer literacy course (1996) (1)
- Revisiting code smells in block based languages (2020) (1)
- The role of compression in document databases (1995) (1)
- Data Hiding in Virtual Machine Disk Images (2010) (1)
- Explaining cryptosystems to the general public (2001) (1)
- Component based modelling for animated educational queuing networks (2011) (1)
- Right, wrong (2021) (1)
- What's all the fuss about coding? (2016) (1)
- How the Burrows-Wheeler Transform works (2008) (1)
- The journey from texting to applications on personally owned devices to enhance student eEngagement in large lectures: A pilot study (2016) (1)
- Authors’ Response: Keeping the “Computation” in “Computational Thinking” Through Unplugged Activities (2019) (1)
- Teaching black-box testing to high school students (2013) (1)
- Unplugging Education: Removing barriers to engaging with new disciplines (2012) (1)
- Teaching Teachers to Teach Computer Science - Unplugged or Plugged-in? (2020) (1)
- United States Patent ( 19 ) Chu ( 54 ) MULTI-CODEBOOK CODING PROCESS 75 ) (2017) (0)
- Conference for Chairs (1999) (0)
- Data compression (2003) (0)
- Computer science unplugged, robotics, and outreach activities (abstract only) (2013) (0)
- Coders for the Burrows-Wheeler Transform (2008) (0)
- Panel — Implementing CS curricula in secondary education: An international perspective (2010) (0)
- Session details: Middle school issues (2010) (0)
- Exact and approximate pattern matching (2008) (0)
- CS Field Guide (2015) (0)
- CS Unplugged: Wrap-up session (2015) (0)
- Thursday 23 rd August ( Erskine room 031 ) Session 1 a – Welcome Session Chair : Professor (2012) (0)
- Other applications of the Burrows-Wheeler Transform (2008) (0)
- CS Unplugged: Computational Thinking Without Computers (2015) (0)
- Suffix trees and suffix arrays (2008) (0)
- Classical information theory has no room for meaning — but humans persist in assigning meaning . How can we reconcile this difference ? (0)
- Computer science in K-12 school curricula of the 2lst century: Why, what and when? (2016) (0)
- Characterizing the Nature of Programs for educational purposes (2022) (0)
- Computational thinking: online and offline, plugged and unplugged (2021) (0)
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Programs (2022) (0)
- The right to know. (1991) (0)
- Providing a CS unplugged experience at a distance (2022) (0)
- IoT Benefits for Livestock Farmers (2022) (0)
- Approximate Pattern Matching Over the Burrows-Wheeler Transformed Text (2002) (0)
- Statistical Models of Language Use (1990) (0)
- Computing Pre-University: Primary Computing Education (2009) (0)
- CS Unplugged, Part 2 (2015) (0)
- Use of Smart Phone Applications and Purple Shirts to Enhance Student Engagement in Large Lectures (2015) (0)
- Community services for high‐risk offenders: Inclusion, access and sustainment (2004) (0)
- Session details: Paper: high school collaborations (2012) (0)
This paper list is powered by the following services:
Other Resources About Tim Bell
What Schools Are Affiliated With Tim Bell ?
Tim Bell is affiliated with the following schools: