Rodney Topor's Home Page Professor of Computing Science. Contact details: +61 7 3735 5047 (Work), 0438 112 358 (Mobile), +61 7 3735 5051 (fax), r.topor{at}griffith.edu.au (email), http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~rwt/ (URL), N44 (TEN) 2.20 (office), School of Information and Communication Technology, Griffith University, Nathan, Qld 4111, Australia (smail).

Teaching interests: Programming, programming languages, database systems, data structures and algorithms, Web programming, teaching and learning methods.

Current teaching

• 7401ICT eService Technology

Note From 2006, I have started to follow University recommendations, and now host some course materials on learning@griffith. Unfortunately, this means they are no longer accessible outside Griffith University.

Recent teaching

Contact me or Andrew Rock in July if you're a D or HD student, in at least third year u/grad or first year p/grad, interested in competing for Griffith in the ACM Student Programming Contest.

Research interests: Theory, design and implementation of database systems; data mining algorithms; knowledge representation and reasoning; theory of programming languages; theory of computation; programming methodology; Web programming, semantic Web, ontologies, logic programming; health information systems.

Resources for CS researchers

Selected publications

Slides for a not-so-recent informal talk on electronic publication of academic research.

Previously required professional interests: Academic leadership, strategic planning, (staff) management, budgeting (just say "no"), and marketing (just say "yes"?)

Recreational interests: Reading, music (particularly opera), photography, go, bridge, chess, golf, tennis, bushwalking, travel, current affairs, ideas (all when time available!).

Motto 1: Procrastinate later! (Topor)

Motto 2: Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien! (Voltaire)

Quote: The last thing IBM needs now is a vision! (Lou Gerstner, IBM CEO, ca. 1990)

Quote: Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies. (Groucho Marx)

Quote: [Go] takes a deep understanding of hard-to-define concepts just to be mediocre. (rec.games.go)

Quote: The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. (Dorothea Lange, via Di Northey)