James A. Thom

Associate Professor of Document Computing at RMIT University.

Office: room 14.9.16 on the city campus.

Phone: +61 3 9925 2992

Fax: +61 3 9662 1617

Teaching

In 2009 I have had some (in many cases limited) involvement with the following courses:

• COSC2104/2106/2431 Document Markup Languages course coordinator, Phil Vines is lecturer on City campus (first semester), Kevin Kuruvilla is lecturer on Vietnam campus
• INTE2471/2472 Frontiers of Information Retrieval seminar course coordinator and co-lecturer with Mingfang Wu (first semester)
• COSC1168/1169 Internet and Intranet Document Engineering course coordinator and co-lecturer with Shekhar Kalra (second semester)
• COSC2148/2149/2150 Research Methods present lecture on writing a research proposal (both first semester and second semesters)
• COSC2305/2306 Search Technology seminar course coordinator, Shane Culpepper is lecturer (second semester)
• INTE2475/2476 Sustainable Energy Efficient Data Storage seminar course coordinator and co-lecturer with Audrey Tam and Shane Culpepper (first semester)
• COSC2413/2426 Web Programming course coordinator Shekhar Kalra is lecturer on City campus (second semester)

Research

Lists of publications and research students.

My research interests include:

• distributed information retrieval;
• document database systems;
• document management;
• image retrieval;
• multimedia databases;
• object oriented databases;
• semantic information retrieval;
• text indexing;
• XML retrieval.