Andrew Davison's Home Page at PSU

Current Research Interests

• Programming with the Kinect sensor using OpenNI, NITE and Java.
   
  
• A book on BlackBerry gaming, written by Carol Hamer and me,
  Learn BlackBerry Games Development
   
  
• Windows Programming Using Java
   
  
• My Apress book, Pro Java 6 3D Game Development
   
  
• My O'Reilly book, Killer Game Programming in Java
   
  
• Searching semi-structured data using landmarks;
• Logic Programming and the Internet
  e.g. LogicWeb, LP and browsers, Web page pattern matching, Web pages as concurrent LP streams, secure Prolog based mobile code paper (152K), a survey of LP languages for the internet (120K);
• VRML
  enhancing VRML97 scripting paper (17K zipped Word file);
• Visualization
  e.g. timelines, perspective walls, browser summaries, database interfaces. "Sort of" related is my experiments with client-side image maps, hot-spots in panoramic photos and VRML to create a Virtual Tour of AIT;
• Teaching Methodologies
  e.g. teaching using English in Thailand (92K), cultural aspects, distributed programming (a Java-Logo Framework paper (88K));
• A short 2 page CV (PDF, 125K), current as of August 2008. An even shorter bio, current as of May 2006.
  

Teaching

A list of the courses, with links to lots of downloadable slides, exercises, code, etc., is available here.

Coding

• SaferExec: a class that simplifies the creation of Java/OS processes.
• NestedSwinger: a Java GUI prototyping tool
• A Simple Regular Expression Interface for Prolog
• ComicSearch 1.0, a Java application for searching for comic information.
• A Marvel Silver Age comic search engine.
• Java code for reading a Web page through a proxy and optional authorization input.
• CGI Script test.
• Various (some quite old) Web programming examples.
• curl, a tool for automatically generating the links between a large collection of HTML pages that make up a single Web document. [Note: this is from 1996, and put back online after a few requests.]

Assorted

• What words can you generate from Chris Sims' Periodic Table of Superheroes?
• What comic was Paul McCartney reading in the Help! movie?
• A beautiful piece of original art by Rick Veitch concerning Marvelman, Spawn, and Morpheus.
• A trip report on my attendance at the Sun Tech Days event in Bangkok, January 24-25, 2006.
• Almost in Praise of Microsoft (11K), in which I send a message to Microsoft: it's time for Redmond to do a Borland and a Red Hat. A slightly modified version appeared on the Dr. Dobb's Journal Web site in June 2001, as an op. ed. piece.
• Computer Humour, and "Humour The Computer"
• A probing in-depth analysis of The Amazing Spider-man.
• My comments on Reinventing Comics, originally sent as an e-mail to Scott McCloud.
• Is Alan Moore trying to send me mad?
• Why Star Wars is a terrible movie.
• Thai Watchmen Poster.
• A Java-driven panorama of my room.
• An experimental socks cam. I use this to check if I have socks on before I leave the office.
• A humorous short essay about my time as an undergraduate at UMIST.

Brief History

• My wife, Supatra.
• Some pictures of our son, John
   
  
• I work in the Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Prince of Songkla University (PSU) in Hat Yai, Thailand.
  Here's a PDF file of slides about my department from July 2008. (53 pages; lots of pics; 10 MB)
• Here's a map of Thailand showing Hat Yai's location, a large map of Hat Yai showing points of interest, including PSU (in the middle of the right hand side), a 3D-like map of PSU with my department and faculty labelled in English, and a great picture of PSU and city by Khun RoyLee Suriyaworakul (I added the arrows pointing at my department and faculty).
   
  
• I am from England; born near Manchester (Wilmslow to be a little more exact). This streetmap includes an arrow pointing to the street where I lived as a boy. Want to see an aerial photo? Or the Google version? And the current weather? Local news?
• PhD from DOC, Imperial College, London (1989)
• Lecturer in Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Melbourne (1991-1996)
• Have taught at AIT and Rangsit in Bangkok, and in Vietnam.

Publications since 1998

• Loke, S.W., and Davison, A. 1998a. 'LogicWeb: Enhancing the Web with Logic Programming', Journal of Logic Programming, Vol. 36(3), September, pp.195-240.
• Loke, S.W., and Davison, A. 1998b.'Implementation of a System for Declarative Mobile Code and Web Querying', INAP'98: 11th Int. Conf. on Applications of Prolog, Tokyo, September 14th-16th.
• Davison, A. 1999. 'A Concurrent Logic Programming Model of the Web', PACLP'99: The 7th Int. Conf. and Exhibition on the Practical Application of Constraints and Logic Programming, London, UK, April.
• Davison, A., and Loke, S.W. 1999. 'LogicWeb: Enhancing the Web with Logic Programming ', Invited Talk at International Workshop on Information Integration and Web-based Applications and Services, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, November 15th-17th
• Jirachiefpattana, A., Santhititham, D., Davison, A., and Jirachiefpattana, W. 1999. 'Logic Agents for Deductive Diary Database on the Web', NCSEC'99: The 1999 National Computer Sci. and Eng. Conf., Bangkok, Thailand, December 16th-17th.
• Davison, A. 2001. "15th July 1972: A Significant Moment for Logic Programming" (39K), Logic Programming Newsletter, Vol 14/1, February. Previously appeared in SIGPLAN Notices, 1st April, 1993.
• Davison, A. 2001. 'Enhancing VRML97 Scripting' (17K zipped Word file), Euromedia'2001, Valencia, Spain, April 18-20, pp.72-77.
• Chochai, T. and Davison, A. 2001. "Teaching Distributed Programming Concepts using a Java and Logo-based Framework" (88K), IC'2001: Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Internet Computing, Las Vegas, USA, June 25th-28th, pp.311-316.
• Davison, A. 2001. 'Free Windows', Op. Ed. piece at the Dr. Dobb's Journal Web Site, June 26th. Unfortunately, it disappeared in 2010, but you can still read the original.
• Davison, A. 2001. 'Logic Programming Languages for the Internet' (120K), Chapter in Computational Logic: From Logic Programming into the Future, Antonis Kakas, Fariba Sadri (eds.), Springer Verlag.
• Loke, S.W. and Davison, A. 2001. "Secure Prolog Based Mobile Code" (152K), Theory and Practice of Logic Programming, Vol. 1, No. 3, May, pp.321-357.
• Rattana, A. and Davison, A. 2001. "N-Sums: A Framework for Web-based Search Engines" (144K), IIWAS 2001: The 3rd Int. Conf. on Info. Integration and Web-based Applications and Services, Linz, Austria, September 10th-12th, pp.175-184.
• Leemakul, B., Saeliw, P. and Davison, A. 2002. "Supporting the SBR Style of Web Usage" (148K), IC 2002: Int. Conf. on Internet Computing, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, June 24th-27th. A picture of the talk, as presented in the CoE department.
• Davison, A. 2004. Incremental Rules for Growing Plants" (164K), Euromedia 2004, Hasselt, Belgium, April 19th-21st.
• Davison, A. 2005a. Killer Game Programming in Java, O'Reilly Media, May.
• Davison, A. 2005b. "Playing Movies in a Java 3D World, Parts 1 and 2", Online at OnJava.com, June.
• Davison, A. 2006a. "Searching Semi-structured Data Using Landmarks" (170K), Euromedia 2006, Athens, Greece, April 17th-19th.
• Davison, A. 2006b. "The Myths (and Truths) of Java Games Programming" (Invited Paper) (57K), Game'On 2006, Braunschweig, Germany, November 29th - December 1st, and at AGDS, the Asian Game Developers Summit, Singapore, December 9th-10th.
• Davison, A. 2007a. Pro Java 6 3D Game Development, Apress, April.
• Davison, A. 2007b. "Notes on a JOGL Active Rendering Framework" (79K), CyberGames 2007, Manchester, UK, September 10th - 11th.
• Lonapalawong, P. and Davison, A. 2007. "Improving Response Time in a Client/Server 3D Mobile Game" (181K), CyberGames 2007, Manchester, UK, September 10th - 11th.
• Davison, A. and Radenahmud, S. 2008. "Comparing M3G and JSR-239 for 3D Games Programming" (208K), CGames 2008, Wolverhampton UK, November 3rd - 5th.
• Sui, Y. and Davison, A. 2009. "Rendering Water and Land Interaction using a Spring System" (498K), Game-On 2009: 10th Int. Conf. on Intelligent Games and Simulation, Dusseldorf, Germany, Nov. 26-28th, pp.25-29.
• Hamer, C. and Davison, A. 2010 Learning BlackBerry Game Development, Apress, April.

Dr. Andrew Davison
Dept. of Computer Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
Prince of Songkla University (PSU)
Hat Yai, Songkhla 90112, Thailand
Tel: +66 74 211 030 x2240 (then x316)
Fax/Tel: +66 74 212 895
E-mail: ad@fivedots.coe.psu.ac.th