John Fulcher

John Fulcher is currently a professor of information technology in the School of IT and Computer Science and director of the Health Informatics Research Centre at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He holds a BEE with Honours from the University of Queensland (1972), a Research Masters from LaTrobe University, Melbourne (1981), and a PhD from the University of Wollongong (1999). He is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery and a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. Professor Fulcher was an invited keynote speaker at the 5th National Thai Computer Science and Engineering Conference. His research interests include microcomputer interfacing, computer science education, artificial neural networks (especially higher-order ANNs), health informatics, and parallel computing.

Publications

Intelligent Information Systems
Intelligent Information Systems
John Fulcher. © 2009. 8 pages.
Information Systems (IS), not surprisingly, process information (data + meaning) on behalf of and for the benefit of human users. Information Systems comprise the basic building...
User Interface Issues in Multimedia
User Interface Issues in Multimedia
John Fulcher. © 2009. 6 pages.
Much has changed in computer interfacing since the early days of computing—or has it? Admittedly, gone are the days of punched cards and/or paper tape readers as input devices;...
Literacy by Way of Automatic Speech Recognition
Literacy by Way of Automatic Speech Recognition
Russell Gluck, John Fulcher. © 2008. 45 pages.
The chapter commences with an overview of automatic speech recognition (ASR), which covers not only the de facto standard approach of hidden Markov models (HMMs), but also the...
Draw-Talk-Write: Experiences and Learning with Indigenous Australians that are Driving the Evolution of Word Recognition Technology
Draw-Talk-Write: Experiences and Learning with Indigenous Australians that are Driving the Evolution of Word Recognition Technology
Russell Gluck, John Fulcher. © 2007. 5 pages.
A draw-talk-write (DTW) process evolved as one of the authors (Gluck) worked with indigenous Australians who had stories to tell, and encountered extreme difficulty in putting...
Advances in Applied Artificial Intelligence
Advances in Applied Artificial Intelligence
John Fulcher. © 2006. 324 pages.
Whether any one technology will prove to be the central one in creating artificial intelligence, or whether a combination of technologies will be necessary to create an...
Literacy by Way of Automatic Speech Recognition
Literacy by Way of Automatic Speech Recognition
Russell Gluck, John Fulcher. © 2006. 52 pages.
The chapter commences with an overview of automatic speech recognition (ASR), which covers not only the de facto standard approach of hidden Markov models (HMMs), but also the...
Application of Higher-Order Neural Networks to Financial Time-Series Prediction
Application of Higher-Order Neural Networks to Financial Time-Series Prediction
John Fulcher, Ming Zhang, Shuxiang Xu. © 2006. 29 pages.
Financial time-series data is characterized by nonlinearities, discontinuities, and high-frequency multipolynomial components. Not surprisingly, conventional artificial neural...