Publications

I have a few traditional publications - some of them are listed below - but less and less of my output is now in this format. You might like to look at this page for some other stuff.

If You Love Your Data, Set it Free

Quentin Stafford-Fraser, IEE Review, Jan 2003, p.28

A highly abridged version of this article appeared in the IEE Review, Jan 2003, p.28. Unfortunately, as a result of the editorial process, significant typos and non-sequiturs were introduced, to the extent that I do not really wish to be associated with the published result. The original, however, makes much more sense and can be downloaded as a PDF here.

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The Life and Times of the First Web Cam: When convenience was the mother of invention

Quentin Stafford-Fraser, Communications of the ACM, July 2001/Vol.44, No.7 pp. 25-26.

Also available here.

Integrating Synchronous and Asynchronous Collaboration with Virtual Network Computing

Sheng Feng Li, Quentin Stafford-Fraser & Andy Hopper, IEEE Internet Computing, Vol 4 Number 3, May/June 2000, pp.26-33

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Virtual Network Computing

Tristan Richardson, Quentin Stafford-Fraser, Kenneth R. Wood & Andy Hopper, IEEE Internet Computing, Vol 2 Number 1, Jan/Feb 1998, pp 33-39

VNC is an ultra-thin client system based on a simple display protocol that is platform- independent. It achieves mobile computing without requiring the user to carry any hardware.

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Where it all began: The Trojan Room Coffee Pot

Quentin Stafford-Fraser, WebSight magazine, April 1997
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BrightBoard: A Video-Augmented Environment

Quentin Stafford-Fraser, Peter Robinson, Proceedings of CHI'96, ACM
The goal of ‘Computer Augmented Environments’ is to bring computational power to everyday objects with which users are already familiar, so that the user interface to this computational power becomes almost invisible. Video is a very important tool in creating Augmented Environments and recent camera-manufacturing techniques make it an economically viable proposition in the general marketplace.

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