Chris Staff's Home Page
About me
I've been lecturing in the Department of Intelligent Computer Systems (formerly Department
of Computer Science and AI), University
of Malta, since 1993.
I graduated in Computing and Artificial Intelligence from the University of Sussex in 1991. I
obtained a PhD in Computer Science, also from the University of Sussex,
in 2001. My thesis is entitled "HyperContext: A
Framework for Adaptive
and Adaptable Hypertext".
I lecture in User-Adaptive Systems and Computer Ethics. I am also the Department's Contact
Point for Collaborative
Research and Development, and I'm the first point of contact for aspiring postgraduate
students (see also Postgraduate
Enquiries).
Outside of academia, my main interests are squash, football, reading (humour, good detective novels, and some
science fiction), and watching any of the above on TV.
Research Interests
I run the User-Adaptive Systems Research and Development Group.
Lecture Courses
From the BSc IT (Hons)
and BSc ICT (Hons) undergraduate degree programmes:
BIT3010
Social and Professional Issues in Computing
CSA3212:
Adaptive Hypertext Systems
BIT5303: Ethics in IT
You can also check the timetable for
these courses.
No longer running:
CSA1013: Historical and Scientific Perspectives on... Information Search and
Retrieval, Research
Ethics
CSA4080:
Adaptive Hypertext Systems II (discontinued)
CSA2060:
Programming in C (discontinued)
CSA2090: Systems Programming (Introduction
to C part) (discontinued)
CSA3020:
Multimedia Systems (discontinued)
CSA4020:
Multimedia Systems: Adaptive Hypertext Systems (discontinued)
CSA3080: Adaptive Hypertext
Systems I
APTs
2007- Automatic Classification of
Bookmarked Web Pages
2009- FollowMyLink
Seminars
Using
the Internet as an Academic Resource
Hypermedia
and Multimedia as Agents of Change
Writing and Referencing seminar notes for 1st years:
Plagiarism... and How To Avoid it Writing and Referencing: University Guidelines Taking Notes..., Example files.zip
How to Write a Literature Review
Postgraduate Orientation Seminar
Contact Details
Dr. Christopher Staff
Head of Department
Senior Lecturer
Department of Artificial Intelligence
University of Malta
Tal-Qroqq
Msida MSD 2080
Malta G.C.
Tel: +356-23402506
Fax: +356-21320539
E-mail: chris.staff@um.edu.mt
Web: http://staff.um.edu.mt/csta1