Paris B-A

The personal domain of Paris Buttfield-Addison, opinionated bastard, HCI graduate researcher, author and co-founder of Secret Lab. I teach people things, write books and research papers, develop iPhone and iPad apps and games, and wander the world looking for coffee.

Category: auc

Congratulations; WWDC 2009!

Congratulations to my friends Peter Lyle, Tim Nugent and Matthew D’Orazio for winning AUC Honours Scholarships for their Honours research projects this year! Lucky folk get $4000… Also, a big congratulations to my friends and business partners Andrew Bennett and Jon Manning, both of whom have just won the prestigious AUC Student Developer Scholarship! Congratulations [...]

ACS IT in the Club Talk

Hi everyone! Just a quick note to say I’ll be delivering the Tasmanian branch of the ACS’s (Australian Computer Society) IT in the Club talk for March. I’ll be speaking on my recently completed Honours and newly-started PhD work on “pilers” and “filers” in Personal Information Management (PIM). It’s a free event for students and [...]

REALbasic; Honours; Secret Lab

Hi all! Just got back from a whirlwind tour of Melbourne, then Sydney – Jon and I have been running three-day REALbasic workshops for the AUC. Both went extremely well, a clever and engaging bunch of students all around! The material will be available online shortly, I’ll update this post when it’s up. I was [...]

AUC /dev/world/2008

Just got back from AUCs fantastic /dev/world/2008 conference. It was a tremendous success, some great sessions were run. Jon Manning, Andrew Bennett and myself attended as presented and had some great feedback from our sessions on AppleScript, OpenGL and Polishing Applications, respectively. I met some great people and learnt a few new things. Also, the [...]