Dr Colin Aldridge BSc(Auckland), DipTch(Christchurch), DipGrad(Otago), PhD(Otago)

Room: 11.01, Commerce
Phone: 479 8183
Email: caldridge@infoscience.otago.ac.nz
Supervising: Maher Alhazmi, Mohammad Alghamdhi

Dr Colin Aldridge has a strong industry background in mineral exploration. He now has a keen research interest in data mining, particularly computer-supported knowledge discovery in geological and other spatial data. Dr Aldridge teaches  research methods in Information Science (INFO 480) and gently introduces students to information technology (COMP 111).

Related papers: COMP111, INFO312, INFO480

• Research
• Publications

Online Flags Design

Dr Aldridge is collaborating with Dr Peter Whigham and Dr Michel de Lange in developing and evaluating an on-line evolutionary method for large-scale participatory design of constrained images. The approach is being trialled by using the New Zealand online community to evolve a set of candidate NZ flag designs. The website for this trial was officially launched on 4 November 2009 by Pete Hodgson, MP, a former Minister of Science and Technology. The event is reported in an Otago Daily Times article. See also a University of Otago press release and a supplementary press release, giving additional background.

Doctoral Thesis This is a 2.7MB Acrobat PDF file.
It should be viewable with Acrobat Reader 4, with only a minor problem regarding some cross reference errors.

Knowledge Theory Paper This is a 1.8MB Microsoft Word97 Document
Knowledge Theory Slide show