I am a teaching and research faculty member of the School of Computer Science
in the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology of the ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science
at the Australian National University-ANU-one of Australia's leading Group of Eight research universities.
I was previously (Feb 2008-August 2008) Acting Deputy Dean (Education) of the College, and Head of the Department of Computer Science (1999-2003, 2004-2007).

My research interests are in

context-awareness and intelligent environments.
This means specifically: computing systems support for context-awareness and the associated programming and software engineering.
Other research interests include non-numerical parallel and distributed programming, and programming language implementation, distributed computing, Web computing, document style and representation.

My teaching interests

currently:
in software engineering (software construction and software design),
previously:
I have taught a wide range of courses including computer networks, Internet/Intranet technology, introductory programming (in Pascal and Modula-2), intermediate introductions to programming languages (C, Ada), comparative programming language models, compiler construction, project management.

- see below for a list of recent publications.

I am a Member of the IEEE (MIEEE) and the Australian Computer Society (MACS). In ACS I am Director of the Academic Board Computer Science, a bridge between the academic community and the profession.

Extra-curricular interests include bookbinding (as President of the Canberra Craft Bookbinder's Guild, with whom I helped to organise the 1992 Australian Exhibition Contemporary Binding, and the forthcoming Gathering in Canberra, November 2011);
and amateur singing, as a member of community choirs Worldly Goods and Canberra ABC Radio 666 Community Choir.

You can read Chris Johnson's Curriculum Vitae in tabular form or read on for the highlights.

I am concerned with scientific ethics and responsibilities as expressed by the Australian Scientists for Global Responsibility and the International Network of Engineers and Scientists pledge.

I have previously been Head of the Department of Computer Science, ANU, and also a recent previous member of the Executive of Computer Science Association, now known as Computing Research and Education, an association of Australian and New Zealand university Computer Science departments which runs an annual Australasian Computer Science Week of conferences in January-February each year.

I can be contacted by email at: // address munged to reduce crawling spammers // c w j @ c s . a n u . e d u . a u
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or by normal mail at:

Chris Johnson

Department of Computer Science

Australian National University

Canberra, ACT, 0200, AUSTRALIA

Phone: 61 2 6125 4509

Fax: 61 2 6125 0010

Chris Johnson can be recognised from this photo, taken in April 2009 or a more dramatic photo (thanks to Brendan McKay).

Recent publications

Smart Internet - Intelligent Environments

Modelling context and developing infrastructure for context-appropriate computing systems

Context Evidence and Location Authority: the disciplined management of sensor data into context models
Chris Johnson, Carmichael, Kay, Kummerfeld, Hexel; UbiComp 2004 Workshop on Advanced Context Modelling, Reasoning and Management
From Sensors to Location Authority: a Design Notation,
Chris Johnson (unpublished)
Merino: Towards an intelligent environment architecture for multi-granularity context description,
Bob Kummerfeld, Aaron Quigley, Chris Johnson and Rene Hexel, in Workshop on User Modelling for Ubiquitous Computing, 2003.
Merino: an intelligent environment architecture for scalable context processing,
Rene Hexel, Chris Johnson, Judy Kay, Bob Kummerfeld and Aaron Quigley, unpublished.

"Powerpoint to the people" : suiting the word to the audience

AUIC Australasian User Interface Conference

Location History in a Low-cost Context Awareness Environment,
Teddy Mantoro and C.W. Johnson, in Proc Australasian Information Security Workshop and the Workshop on Wearable, Invisible, Context-Aware, Ambient, Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing,
eds. Chris Johnson, Paul Montague and Chris Steketee, ACS Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology, vol 21, Adelaide, South Australia, Feb 2003, pp 153-158.

I was founding program chair and proceedings editor of the WICAPUC Workshop on Wearable, Invisible, Context-Aware, Ambient, Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, held in February 2003.
published as Proceedings of the Australasian Information Security Workshop and the Workshop on Wearable, Invisible, Context-Aware, Ambient, Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, edited by Chris Johnson, Paul Montague and Chris Steketee,
ACS Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology, vol 21, Adelaide, South Australia, Feb 2003

ANU-Fujitsu CAP project

This project ran from 1990-1992 in many areas of parallel computing systems.

Experience with benchmark applications on the AP1000 HeROD object store: C. W. Johnson, S. Fenwick, W. Keating, Proceedings of the Fifth International Parallel Computing Workshop, Fujitsu Parallel Computing Research Center, Kawasaki, Japan November 1996, pp P1-T-1-16
HeROD flavoured oct-trees: scientific computation with a multicomputer persistent object store: Stephen Fenwick and Chris Johnson, ANU technical report TR-CS-97-04, 1997.
Architecture of a high performance persistent object store: (C. W. Johnson, J. X. Yu, R. B. Stanton)
Proceedings of the Fourth Fujitsu Parallel Computing Facility Parallel Computing Workshop, (September 1995)
Porting the PVM Distributed Computing Environment to the Fujitsu AP1000: (C. W. Johnson and D. Walsh)
Proceedings of the Second Fujitsu Parallel Computing Facility User Meeting, (November 1993)
Towards Debugging and Analysis Tools for Kilo-Processor Computers: (P. B. Thistlewaite and C. W. Johnson)
Fujitsu Scientific and Technical Journal, vol 29 no. 1 (Spring 1993) pp. 32-40
Architecture of an Extensible Parallel Debugger: (C W Johnson and P Mackerras)
poster paper, pp II-262-263 Proceedings of International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP 91) , August 1991,
Architecture of an Extensible Parallel Debugger: (C W Johnson and P Mackerras),
Technical Report TR-CS-91-08, Department of Computer Science, The Faculties, Australian National University (1991) (14 pages)
Design of a Replay Debugger for a Large Cellular Array Processor: (C W Johnson and P. Mackerras)
Proceedings of Australian Software Engineering Conference ASWEC 91, July 1991, pp 189-201
Design of a replay debugger for a large parallel cellular array processor: (C W Johnson and P Mackerras),
Technical Report TR-CS-91-07 Department of Computer Science, The Faculties, Australian National University (1991) (13 pages)
Developing Monitoring and Debugging Tools for the AP1000 Array Multiprocessor: (C. W. Johnson,P. B. Thistlewaite, D. Walsh, M. Zellner) published in Proceedings of Second Fujitsu-ANU CAP Workshop, Canberra, November 1991 (15 pages)
A SPMD Monitor/Debugger for the Fujitsu Cellular Array Processor: (C W Johnson and P. Mackerras)
Proceedings of First Fujitsu-ANU CAP Workshop, Kawasaki, Japan, November 1990 (8 pages)

Ada compiler, robotic programming

My previous work was concerned with an early implementation of Ada and with well-engineered robot control and programming software. Sample papers are:

Semantic Errors - Diagnosis and Repair: (jointly with C Runciman)
ACM SIGPLAN 82 Symposium on Compiler Construction, SIGPLAN Notices vol. 17, no. 6 (June 1982), pp 88-97.
no source available - before the WWW
Ada Workbench Compiler Project 1981: (jointly with J S Briggs et al.)
Technical Report YCS.48(1982) Department of Computer Science, University of York (1982)
Abstract Processes for Real Time Robot Control: (jointly with B. P. Molinari, R. B. Stanton, P. Mackerras, D. Wanless, and T. E. Clark)
Proceedings of 12th Australian Computer Science Conference, February 1989 (12 pages)

...and also

Johnson, C., Tonkin, J., & Metcalf, M.: Australian Exhibition Contemporary Binding, published by Canberra Craft Bookbinders Inc, 1992
Exhibition catalogue of Canberra Craft Bookbinders' guild catalogue for their 1982 exhibition in the National Library. Fifty-three books from eight countries illustrated in full colour.

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