Simon Price

Senior Technical Researcher - Web Futures

I'm a researcher in ILRT's Web Futures group and a consultant developer in ILRT's Internet Development group where collectively we create leading edge Web teaching, research and administrative applications for the educational sector.

Since joining the university in 1992 I've also been (most recent first) director of the WebEcon eLearning project, director of the University of Bristol's Learning Technology Support Service (LTSS), software development manager at the UK Centre for Computing in Social Sciences and senior programmer on the million pound WinEcon project at the Centre for Computing in Economics.

WinEcon received a medal from the British Computer Society, a European Academic Software Award and, in the US, the Interactive Award. More recently, one of my applications was a winner at the UK's eLearning Awards.

I run toolbook.org and for a brief period worked in Seattle on the ToolBook authoring tool for SumTotal Systems (formerly Asymetrix). I've been a consultant on ToolBook and eLearning for over 20 public and private sector organisations, including Department of Health, Dow Jones, Employment Services Commission, ICL/Fujitsu, King's College, Oxford University, Pearson Educational, TRO Learning/US Air Force and Unilever. In the very dim and distant past I was a computer games programmer for Melbourne House, Virgin Games, Mastertronic and Electronic Arts.

I'm most of the way through a PhD in machine learning and data mining. See my PhD home page for more details.

Professional Organisations

Chartered IT Professional Member of the British Computer Society (MBCS CITP)
Professional Member of the IEEE Computer Society (MIEEE)
Professional Member of the ACM (MACM)

Contacting Simon

Email: simon.price@bristol.ac.uk
Tel:+44 (0)117 331 4310
Fax:+44 (0)117 331 4396

Related Information

Current Activities

Careers in Research Online Survey : Software Developer
Intute: Virtual Training Suite : Software Developer
SCONUL Web site: Society of College, National and University Libraries : Software Developer
Embedded E-Learning Solution : Developer/consultant
Clinical Experience Recorder : Consultant
Bristol Online Surveys : Senior Developer
STARS: Semantic Tools for Screen Arts Research : Senior Technical Researcher
Toolbook tutorials

Past Activities

Practice as Research in Performance Web-database Research Tool : Software Developer

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Publications

Publication
Price, S & Flach, PA. 'Querying and Merging Heterogeneous Data by Approximate Joins on Higher-Order Terms', Proceedings of 18th International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming, ILP 2008, Prague, Czech Republic, ILP 2008, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 5194, (pp. 226-243), 2008. ISSN: 0302-9743, ISBN: 9783540859277 10.1007/978-3-540-85928-4_19
Piccini, AA & Price, S. PARIP Explorer, 2007. http://parip.ilrt.org/
Price, S. 'Webs of People, Webs of Data', Web 2.0 Live Symposium, (pp. -), 2006. http://www.web2live.co.uk
Price, S, Piccini, AA, Agarwal, SJ, Kershaw, BR, Joyner, BH & Miller, L. 'PARIP Explorer - Researching the Researchers', International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2004), Hiroshima, Japan, (pp. -), 2004. http://iswc2004.semanticweb.org/demos/05/paper.pdf
Price, S, Rawles, S & Flach, P. 'Estimating whether partial FOAF descriptions describe the same individual', Workshop on Friend of a Friend, Social Networking and the Semantic Web (FOAF2004), Galway, Ireland, (pp. -), 2004. http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/events/foaf-galway/papers/pp/partial_foaf_descriptions/
Price, SN. 'A Review of the State of the Art of Machine Learning on the Semantic Web', UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence, (pp. 292-299), 2003. ISBN: 0862925371
Place, EJ, Smith, PJ, Price, SN, Sharp, KJ & Griffiths, T. 'The RDN Virtual Training Suite: A Tool for Teaching e-Literacy', in Allan Martin, Hannelore Radar (Ed.), Information and IT Literacy: Enabling learning in the 21st Century, (pp. 177-183), Facet Publishing, 2003. ISBN: 1856044637 http://www.lapwing.org.uk/cgi-bin/miva?lap/merchant.mv+Screen=PROD&Store_Code=1&Product_Code=458
Smith, PJ, Place, EJ, Sharp, KJ & Price, SN. 'TECHNICAL ARCHITECTURE OF THE RDN VIRTUAL TRAINING SUITE: A NATIONAL E-LEARNING RESOURCE FOR THE UK', Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE), 2, (pp. 633-642), 2002. ISBN: 0473091194
Price, SN & Marshall, IM. 'Cost of Migrating Large-Scale Computer Assisted Learning (CAL) Software to Web Delivery', European Journal of Open and Distance Learning, V, (pp. -), 2001. ISSN: 1027-5207 http://www.eurodl.org/materials/2001/icl01/price-marshall/ICL2001.htm
Price, SN. 'Managing Large-scale Multimedia Development Projects', International Journal of Engineering Education, 14, (pp. -), 1998. ISSN: 0949-149X http://www.ijee.dit.ie/articles/Vol14-6/ijee1044.pdf
Marshall, IM, Price, S, Dugard, PI, Hobbs, P & Samson, WB. 'Code-based analysis of the development effort of a large scale courseware project', Information and Software Technology, 39, (pp. 541-549), 1997. ISSN: 0950-5849 10.1016/S0950-5849(97)00010-4
Price, SN. 'Structured Testing for Multimedia Authoring', Proceedings of 4th European Conference on Software Testing Analysis and Reviews, (pp. -), 1996.
Price, SN. A Critical Evaluation of Multimedia ToolBook, for AGOG, Loughborough University, 1996.
Price, SN, Cheah, LL & Hobbs, PJ. 'Software Quality Management in End-User Programming', Software Quality Management IV - Improving Quality, (pp. -), 1996. ISBN: 186050319
Price, S & Probert, J. When the courseware inspector calls, (pp. -), Times Higher Education, 1995. http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=98929§ioncode=26
Price, SN & Hobbs, PJ. 'Authoring CAL using the WinEcon ToolBook Template', Complex Learning in Computer Environments, Joensuu, Finland, (pp. -), 1994.
Price, SN, Hobbs, PJ & Cheah, LL. 'Achieving Efficiency Gains in the Courseware Development Process', XX1X Annual International Conference of the AETT, (pp. -), 1994.
Price, SN. 'Authoring Strategies : Toolbook', Learning Technology in Higher Education, 1, (pp. 19-23), 1993.
Hobbs, PJ & Price, SN. 'Authoring Using Toolbook', EDINEB, 1, (pp. -), 1993.