Peter Bailey

My old CS home page while working on the ACSys CRC.

What I do

Peter Bailey is a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Computer Science.

Peter now works at Synop Pty Ltd. We build products such as Sytadel and Sauce Reader.

We also distribute Panoptic, an enterprise search engine developed by the CSIRO's enterprise search group (or whatever they are currently called), led by David Hawking.

Research interests ...

2001-present

I still have a strong interest in information retrieval systems, but have broadened them to include more general information management products such as Sytadel and Sauce Reader.

I publish papers on an irregular basis, but write far more frequently on my work blog I, Distributius.

1998-2000

My main research interests presently are in building better retrieval systems for real world data. I also like to think about the nature of the Web in general, and how we can make more use of its structure to do a better job of retrieval. We've written a paper examining issues around what doesn't get found on the Web. Currently we are thinking about where to submit it to. We've also submitted papers about our experiences with building P@NOPTIC and some of the implications to SIGIR'2000 and Advances in Digital Libraries. Some of Nick's particular interests in server selection formed the basis of a paper submitted to the Digital Libraries conference as well.

1997-1998

I learned a whole lot about object oriented computing while at OTI, but there was little time to pursue individual research interests. I also developed a healthy interest in software engineering practices, rapid application development, guerrilla programming techniques, and distributed object technologies.

pre-1997

I finished my PhD in the Department of Computer Science, The Australian National University, in January 1997. I worked on the CAP project at the same time as doing my PhD just to keep busy.

My PhD research interests were in the development of an extension of ML called paraML, which explored parallel programming languages and models. The work involved looking at formal semantics for the extensions, building implementations of data parallelism, algorithmic skeletons, and object stores to illustrate the efficacy of paraML, and keeping up with SML/NJ compiler releases and developments with message passing systems such as MPI for the backend. I retain an interest in modern programming languages and semantics, but more from a practical viewpoint these days.

I spent happy times working with Dave Hawking on older versions of PADRE as well in these years. During those years, we were very keen on having entire text bases in main memory, since the AP1000 had 2gB of RAM. Nowadays of course, you can have that in your desktop PC, and we are trying to search hundreds of gigabytes of data.

A rather out of date list of publications is available.

Administrivia: Contact Details

My official DCS home page

http://cs.anu.edu.au/personnel/staffDisplayNames.html?lastName=bailey

Most email that goes to the address below is spam, so I only check it once every few months.

Email

Peter.Bailey@cs.anu.edu.au

If you need to get in touch with me quicker than that, try emailing my work email address peter AT synop DOT com.

Airmail, Voicemail, Faxmail

Peter Bailey
Synop Pty Ltd
GPO Box 222
Canberra, ACT, 2601, AUSTRALIA
Phone: +61 6 6257 7027
Fax: +61 6 6257 7703
Last modified: Fri Apr 30 21:53:35 EST 2004