Simon Price

Senior Technical Researcher

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

I am proud to have been one of the founding project directors of the ILRT. 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.

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
SubSift Services : Software Developer
Visualising China : Senior Technical Researcher

Past Activities

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

Publications

Publication
Price, S, Tredgold, J, Rogers, N, Jones, M, Steer, D & Piccini, AA. 'STARS - Semantic Tools for Screen Arts Research', International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2009), Washington, DC, 2009. http://kcap09.stanford.edu/share/posterDemos/129/paper129.pdf
Flach, PA, Spiegler, SR, Golenia, BSG, Price, S, Guiver, J, Herbrich, R, Graepel, T & Zaki, MJ. 'Novel Tools To Streamline the Conference Review Process: Experiences from SIGKDD'09 (to appear)', SIGKDD Explorations, 11, 2009. ISSN: 1931-0145 http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/Publications/Papers/2001111.pdf
Covington, MA, Bagnara, R, O'Keefe, RA, Wielemaker, J & Price, S. 'Coding Guidelines for Prolog', arXiv, 2009. http://arxiv.org/abs/0911.2899
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. 'Advanced JavaScript', ToolBook User's Conference / e-Learning Authoring Conference, Colorado Springs, 2007.
Price, S. 'Introduction to Software Testing and Quality Assurance', ToolBook User's Conference / e-Learning Authoring Conference, 2006. http://www.tbcon.com/archives_2006.aspx
Price, S. 'Webs of People, Webs of Data', Web 2.0 Live Symposium, 2006.
Miller, L & Price, S. 'The Semantic Web is Your Friend', FreePint, Issue 160, 2004. http://www.freepint.com/issues/270504.htm#feature
Price, S, Piccini, AA, Agarwal, SJ, Kershaw, BR, Joyner, BH & Miller, L. 'PARIP Explorer - Researching the Researchers', International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2004), Hiroshima, Japan, 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, 2004. http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/events/foaf-galway/papers/pp/partial_foaf_descriptions/
Price, S. A review of the state of the art in Machine Learning on the Semantic Web: Technical Report CSTR-05-003, 2004. http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/Publications/Papers/2000978.pdf
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
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 http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/Publications/Papers/2000977.pdf
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 http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/reports/ascilite02.html
Price, SN & Marshall, IM. 'Cost of Migrating Large-Scale Computer Assisted Learning (CAL) Software to Web Delivery', European Journal of Open and Distance Learning, 5, 2001. ISSN: 1027-5207 http://www.eurodl.org/materials/contrib/2001/icl01/price-marshall/ICL2001.htm
Price, SN & Marshall, I. 'Cost of Migrating Large-Scale Computer Assisted Learning (CAL) Software to Web Delivery', Interactive Computer Aided Learning Workshop, Villach, Austria, 2001. ISBN: 3933146674 http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/Publications/Papers/2000985.pdf
Price, SN. 'Managing Large CBT Projects', The ToolBook User's Conference, 2000.
Price, SN. 'Migrating to the Web.', The ToolBook User's Conference, 1999.
Price, SN. 'Managing Large Scale Multimedia Development Projects', in Robin Bradbeer (Ed.), Current Practice In Multimedia Education, (pp. 1-17), City University of Hong Kong Press, 1999. ISBN: 962937045X
Price, SN. 'WinEcon 5.0 Released', Computers in Higher Education Economics Review, 13 (1), 1999. ISSN: 1358-5363 http://www.economicsnetwork.ac.uk/cheer/ch13_1/ch13_1p30.htm
Price, SN. 'Managing Large-scale Multimedia Development Projects', International Journal of Engineering Education, 14, (pp. 407-418), 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, Cheah, LL & Chipchase, J. 'WinEcon on the Web', Computers in Higher Education Economics Reviews, 10 (1), 1996. ISSN: 1358-5363 http://www.economicsnetwork.ac.uk/cheer/ch10_1/ch101p30.htm
Price, SN & Cheah, LL. A Critical Evaluation of Multimedia ToolBook, SIMA Technical Report 23, for JISC Advisory Group on Computer Graphics (AGOCG), Loughborough University, 1996. http://www.agocg.ac.uk/reports/mmedia/toolbook/toolbook.pdf
Price, SN. 'Structured Testing for Multimedia Authoring', European Conference on Software Testing Analysis and Reviews, RAI, Amsterdam, Proceedings of 4th European Conference on Software Testing Analysis and Reviews, 1996.
Price, SN, Cheah, LL & Hobbs, PJ. 'Software Quality Management in End-User Programming', Fourth International Conference on Software Quality Management, Queens College, Cambridge, UK, Software Quality Management IV - Improving Quality, (pp. 485-493), 1996. ISBN: 1860580319 http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/Publications/Papers/2000981.pdf
Price, SN. 'Multimedia ToolBook 4.0 and CBT Edition - Costs and Benefits', Computers in Higher Education Economics Review, 10, 1996. ISSN: 1358-5363 http://www.economicsnetwork.ac.uk/cheer/ch10_1/ch101p36.htm
Price, S & Probert, J. When the courseware inspector calls, Times Higher Education, 1995. http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=98929§ioncode=26
Price, S & Probert, J. 'ToolBook Version 3.0' Asymetrix ToolBook Software by Asymetrix Inc. The Economic Journal, 105 (428), (pp. 238-243), 1995. ISSN: 0013-0133
Price, SN & Hobbs, PJ. 'Authoring CAL using the WinEcon ToolBook Template', Complex Learning in Computer Environments, Joensuu, Finland, 1994.
Price, SN & Hobbs, PJ. 'Long-term Viability of ToolBook in CBL Development', ToolBook Users Conference, 1994.
Price, SN, Hobbs, PJ & Cheah, LL. 'Achieving Efficiency Gains in the Courseware Development Process', XX1X Annual International Conference of the AETT, 1994.
Price, SN & Hobbs, PJ. 'ToolBook Version 1.5' Asymetrix ToolBook Software by Asymetrix Inc. The Economic Journal, 104 (425), (pp. 983-988), 1994. ISSN: 0013-0133
Probert, PJ & Price, SN. 'A ToolBook Architecture for Consistent and Effective Learning', ToolBook Users Conference, 1994.
Price, SN. 'Authoring Strategies : Toolbook', Learning Technology in Higher Education, 1, (pp. 19-23), 1993.
Hobbs, PJ & Price, SN. 'Authoring Using ToolBook', First Annual EDINEB International Conference, Maastricht, The Netherlands, Educational Innovation in Economics and Business, 1993.
Price, SN. 'Runtime Resource Books : Reducing Book Size and Complexity', UK Toolbook Users Conference, 1, (pp. 48-53), 1993.