Mark Hall
Lecturer In Computing & Communications
Peterborough, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Hall is a Lecturer in Computing & Communications at The Open University with a decade of experience bridging academic research and practical software development in Interactive Information Retrieval, Digital Cultural Heritage, and Digital Humanities. His career spans roles from web developer at The National Archives to junior professor of eHumanities and HCI lecturer positions across European universities, reflecting a strong mix of teaching, research and hands-on system building. He holds a PhD in Computer Science with strengths in computational linguistics and GIS, and has a track record of turning research into deployed tools for georeferencing and information visualisation. Colleagues value his pragmatic approach to user-centred evaluation and his ability to connect heritage datasets with interactive, map-based access—an often overlooked blend of domain knowledge and engineering craft.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, GIS, PhD, Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, GIS at Cardiff University / Prifysgol CaerdyddDiplom Ingenieur, Computer Science, GIS, Diplom Ingenieur, Computer Science, GIS at Universität Klagenfurt
English, German, Italian, French, Spanish
Github Skills (155)
python10
jupyterlab10
mqtt9
home-automation9
automation9
home-assistant9
aviation9
flight-simulation9
privacy9
marshmallow9
raspberry-pi9
jupyter9
json-api9
iot9
nlp8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
simple-digital-edition/tei-editor
Nov 2018 - Oct 2020
A graphical editor for TEI documents
Contributions:27 commits, 40 PRs, 83 pushes in 1 year 10 months
graphicalteieditorgraphical-editor
scmmmh/simple-turtle
Jan 2022 - Jun 2024
Contributions:8 PRs, 9 pushes, 8 branches in 2 years 5 months
webglweb-graphicsturtle-graphicsjavascriptweb-application
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