Books By Bob Spence - Author

Bob Spence is Professor Emeritus of Information Engineering, and Senior Research Investigator, at Imperial College London. Following a 2-year postdoctoral experience at General Dynamics/Electronics in the USA he came to Imperial College in 1962, first as a Lecturer with interests in circuit theory. He is, in fact, a co-author of the classic Tellegen’s Theorem (MIT Press, 1970) which powerfully generalizes the original form of that unusual theorem. But it was the emergence of interactive computer graphics in the 1960s that triggered interest in the actual user of that technology and, hence, in Human-computer Interaction, a field of life-long interest and of which he is a pioneer. In this context Bob has been the co-architect of a number of tools: first MINNIE (a powerful graphic front-end for circuit designers), then a CAD system exploiting Artificial Intelligence and, during the last two years, the interface of a hand-held device supporting the self-management of Type-1 diabetes, the topic of this book. At th