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Stuart Taylor

RSDE
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I joined the Socio-Digital System group at Microsoft Research Cambridge as a Research Software Development Engineer (RSDE) in January 2006. I also spent 6 months working in the Cambridge Innovation Development at the lab prior to this date.

I graduated in 1989 with a BEng in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and subsequently studied at Birkbeck College (University of London), completing an MSc in Computing Science in 1995.

Much of my childhood was spent taking things apart and then trying to figure out how they worked. This inquisitiveness now drives my research, which tends to be quite experimental in nature.

Publications

Publications (In Press)

  • Kirk, D., Izadi, S., Sellen, A., Taylor, S., Banks, R., Hilliges, O. Opening up the Family Archive. CSCW 

Work History

Over the years, I've worked for a broad range of companies and have built up a wide range of experience. I've developed for a variety of platforms, both at the application and driver level and have also undertaken a number of embedded projects.

Some of the companies that I've worked for include:

  • Xerox Research Centre Europe
  • PageCam Inc.
  • Newnham Research Limited
  • The Warp Corporation
  • Xenia Technology
  • WorldPay
  • Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID)

Patents

The following is a (partial) list of patents that I have co-authored:

  • 6512539 - Document Periscope
  • 6640010 - Word-to-word selection on images
  • 6766069 - Text selection from images of documents using auto-completion
  • 6922487 - Method and apparatus for capturing text images
  • 6943904 - Method and apparatus for image capture, selection and copying
  • 6947609 - System with motion triggered processing
  • 6975352 - Apparatus and method for capturing a composite digital image with regions of varied focus and magnification
  • 7123292 - Mosaicing images with an offset lens
  • 7346841 - Method and apparatus for collaborative annotation of a document
  • 20070110335 - Image Processing System for Digital Collage

 

 

Research Interests

  • Tangible User Interfaces
  • Paper Interfaces
  • Interactive Surfaces
  • Mobile Communication Devices
  • Novel Uses of Technology

A Little Piece of History

Here's a print out of a screen shot and code listing of a Mandelbrot fractal program that I wrote on my Sinclair Spectrum back in the 80's. It's also interesting to note the unusual (and expensive) aluminized paper used by the Sinclair printer.