Office:

Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Prince of Songkla  University Hatyai, Songkhla, 90112

Education:

• B.Sc., (honored) Computing, 1983 UMIST, UK.
• M.Sc., Computer Science, 1985 Lehigh, USA.
• Ph.D., Computer Science, 1989 Imperial, UK.

 Experences:

• Lehigh  University:  Teaching  assistant  in  FORTRAN  and  numerical  methods.
• Imperial  College:  1985  –  June  1991  :  I  tutored  various  undergraduate  and  Masters  computing  courses,  including  ones  on  logic  programming  (LP),  databases  principles,  and  software  engineering.  From  September  1987,  I  was  employed  as  a  research  assistant,  which  included  the  supervision  of  two  Master  projects.  For  two  years,  I  helped  teach  a  Masters  course  on  concurrent  LP.
• University  of  Melbourne:  July  1991  –  September  1996.  My  lecturing  duties  involved  teaching  first,  second,  and  Honours  level  students.  The  subjects  included  C,  C++,  UNIX  tools,  functional  programming,  comparison  of  programming  paradigms,  sequential  and  concurrent  LP.  I  supervised  one  Ph.D  student,  co-supervised  another,  and  supervised  three  Masters  student.  Other  duties:  first  year  coordinator,  orientation  week  organizer  for  the  department  (4  times).
• PSU,  Thailand:  October  1996  –  September  1998.  Teaching  included  UNIX,  network  programming,  advanced  C,  Java,  and  software  engineering.  I  co-supervised  two  Masters  students,  and  several  Honours  projects.  One  of  the  Masters  students  won  a  NECTEC  Award.  Other  duties:  helped  with  the  revision  of  the  undergraduate  syllabus,  and  gave  advice  on  the  new  Masters  programme.
• AIT,  Thailand:  October  1998  –  December  1999.  Teaching  included:  client/server  distributed  systems,  and  operating  systems.  I  supervised  two  Masters  students,  and  was  on  the  program  committees  for  several  other  Masters  and  Ph.D  students.  I  remain  an  Adjunct  Faculty  member,  and  returned  to  AIT  for  two  month  in  2000  to  teach  a  Masters  course.
• Rangsit  University,  Thailand:  October  1998  –  December  1999.  I  taught  a  course  called  “Theory  of  Programming  Languages”  three  times  during  the  year.
• PSU,  Thailand:  December  1999  –  present.  Teaching  duties  have  included:  “Introduction  to  Java”,  “Mathematics  for  Computer  Engineering”,  “Client/Server  Distributed  Systems”,  "Computer  Programming  Techniques",  and  “Advanced  UNIX  Programming”  for  undergraduate  students.  I  was  a  guest  lecturer  in  the  software  engineering  course,  talking  about  UML.  I  taught  an  advanced  Java  course,  centered  around  J2EE,  to  the  Masters  students.  I  am  currently  supervising  eight  final  year  undergraduate  students  in  their  project  work

Publications since 1998

• Loke, S.W., and Davison, A. 1998a. 'LogicWeb: Enhancing the Web with Logic Programming', Journal of Logic Programming, Vol. 36(3), September, pp.195-240.
• Loke, S.W., and Davison, A. 1998b.'Implementation of a System for Declarative Mobile Code and Web Querying', INAP'98: 11th Int. Conf. on Applications of Prolog, Tokyo, September 14th-16th.
• Davison, A. 1999. 'A Concurrent Logic Programming Model of the Web', PACLP'99: The 7th Int. Conf. and Exhibition on the Practical Application of Constraints and Logic Programming, London, UK, April.
• Davison, A., and Loke, S.W. 1999. 'LogicWeb: Enhancing the Web with Logic Programming ', Invited Talk at International Workshop on Information Integration and Web-based Applications and Services, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, November 15th-17th
• Jirachiefpattana, A., Santhititham, D., Davison, A., and Jirachiefpattana, W. 1999. 'Logic Agents for Deductive Diary Database on the Web', NCSEC'99: The 1999 National Computer Sci. and Eng. Conf., Bangkok, Thailand, December 16th-17th.
• Davison, A. 2001. "15th July 1972: A Significant Moment for Logic Programming" (39K), Logic Programming Newsletter, Vol 14/1, February. Previously appeared in SIGPLAN Notices, 1st April, 1993.
• Davison, A. 2001. 'Enhancing VRML97 Scripting' (17K zipped Word file), Euromedia'2001, Valencia, Spain, April 18-20, pp.72-77.
• Chochai, T. and Davison, A. 2001. "Teaching Distributed Programming Concepts using a Java and Logo-based Framework" (88K), IC'2001: Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Internet Computing, Las Vegas, USA, June 25th-28th, pp.311-316.
• Davison, A. 2001. 'Free Windows', Op. Ed. piece at the Dr. Dobb's Journal Web Site, June 26th. Unfortunately, it disappeared in 2010, but you can still read the original.
• Davison, A. 2001. 'Logic Programming Languages for the Internet' (120K), Chapter in Computational Logic: From Logic Programming into the Future, Antonis Kakas, Fariba Sadri (eds.), Springer Verlag.
• Loke, S.W. and Davison, A. 2001. "Secure Prolog Based Mobile Code" (152K), Theory and Practice of Logic Programming, Vol. 1, No. 3, May, pp.321-357.
• Rattana, A. and Davison, A. 2001. "N-Sums: A Framework for Web-based Search Engines" (144K), IIWAS 2001: The 3rd Int. Conf. on Info. Integration and Web-based Applications and Services, Linz, Austria, September 10th-12th, pp.175-184.
• Leemakul, B., Saeliw, P. and Davison, A. 2002. "Supporting the SBR Style of Web Usage" (148K), IC 2002: Int. Conf. on Internet Computing, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, June 24th-27th. A pictureof the talk, as presented in the CoE department.
• Davison, A. 2004. Incremental Rules for Growing Plants" (164K), Euromedia 2004, Hasselt, Belgium, April 19th-21st.
• Davison, A. 2005a. Killer Game Programming in Java, O'Reilly Media, May.
• Davison, A. 2005b. "Playing Movies in a Java 3D World, Parts 1 and 2", Online at OnJava.com, June.
• Davison, A. 2006a. "Searching Semi-structured Data Using Landmarks" (170K), Euromedia 2006, Athens, Greece, April 17th-19th.
• Davison, A. 2006b. "The Myths (and Truths) of Java Games Programming" (Invited Paper) (57K), Game'On 2006, Braunschweig, Germany, November 29th - December 1st, and at AGDS, the Asian Game Developers Summit, Singapore, December 9th-10th.
• Davison, A. 2007a. Pro Java 6 3D Game Development, Apress, April.
• Davison, A. 2007b. "Notes on a JOGL Active Rendering Framework" (79K), CyberGames 2007, Manchester, UK, September 10th - 11th.
• Lonapalawong, P. and Davison, A. 2007. "Improving Response Time in a Client/Server 3D Mobile Game" (181K), CyberGames 2007, Manchester, UK, September 10th - 11th.
• Davison, A. and Radenahmud, S. 2008. "Comparing M3G and JSR-239 for 3D Games Programming" (208K), CGames 2008, Wolverhampton UK, November 3rd - 5th.
• Sui, Y. and Davison, A. 2009. "Rendering Water and Land Interaction using a Spring System" (498K), Game-On 2009: 10th Int. Conf. on Intelligent Games and Simulation, Dusseldorf, Germany, Nov. 26-28th, pp.25-29.
• Hamer, C. and Davison, A. 2010 Learning BlackBerry Game Development, Apress, April.