Staff Profile

Career History:

Emeritus Professor, University of Newcastle upon Tyne (2000-).

Professor of Computing and Data Processing at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (1980-2000).

Director of Management Information Services, University of Newcastle upon Tyne (1992-1995).

Director of the Computing Laboratory, University of Newcastle upon Tyne (1980-1992).

Professor of Computer Studies at the University of Groningen (1972-1979).

Lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh (1964-1972).

Senior Research Fellow in English Language, University of Edinburgh (1963-1964).

Technical Officer, Imperial Chemical Industries Limited (1961-1963).

Programmer, MRC Statistical Reseach Unit (1960-1961).

Fellow of the British Computer Society and a Chartered IT Professional.

Area of expertise: Design and Implementation of Yahoo! Widgets and Web Widgets, JavaScript programming.

• Little MC, Wheater SM, Ingham DB, Snow CR, Whitfield H, Shrivastava SK. The University Student Registration System: A Case Study in Building a High-Availability Distributed Application Using General Purpose Components. In: Krakowiak, S. and Shrivastava, S.K, ed. Advances in Distributed Systems. Springer-Verlag, 1999, pp.453-471.
• Snow CR, Whitfield H. Simple Authentication. Software: Practice and Experience 1994, 24(5), 437-447.
• Snow CR, Whitfield H. Simple Authentication. Newcastle upon Tyne: Department of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1993. Department of Computing Science Technical Report Series 459.
• Snow CR, Whitfield H. An Experiment with the Newcastle Connection Protocol. Software: Practice and Experience 1986, 19(11), 1031-1044.
• Whitfield H. The Challenge of the Chip. Newcastle upon Tyne: Computing Laboratory, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1981. Computing Laboratory Technical Report Series 159.
• Whitfield H. Abstractions and Interfaces in an Operating System Design. In: International Computing Symposium. 1975, Antibes, France.
• Whitfield H, Millard GE, Rees DJ. The Standard EMAS Subsystem. Computer Journal 1975, 18(3), 213-219.
• Whitfield H, Wight AS. EMAS - The Edinburgh Multi-Access System. In: Auerbach, I, ed. The Auerbach Annual 1974, Best Computer Papers. New York, USA: Petrocelli Books, 1974, pp.129-160.
• Whitfield H, Shelness NA, Stephens PD. The EMAS Scheduling and Allocation Procedures in the Resident Supervisor. In: International Symposium on Operating Systems, Theory and Practice. 1974, IRIA Paris, France.
• Whitfield H, Wight AS. EMAS - The Edinburgh Multi-Access System. Computer Journal 1973, 16(4), 331-346.
• Whitfield H, Bratley P et al. A Model for the Perception of Syntactic Structure. In: International Colloquium on Informatics. 1966, Toulouse, France.
• Whitfield H, Cooper DC. ALP: An Autocode List-Processing Language. Computer Journal 1962, 5(1), 28-32.
• Whitfield H, Goldsmith PL. Average Run Lengths in Cumulative Sum Chart Quality Control Schemes. Technometrics 1961, 3(1), 11-20.