Reilly, Paul

Paul Reilly is a pioneer of virtual archaeology and data visualisation in archeology. He was a research scientist at the IBM UK Scientific Centre. He received his B.A. Honours degree in archaeology and history from the University of Leeds and his Ph.D. in computer-based archaeological research, at the Research Centre for Computer Archaeology in North Staffordshire Polytechnic. He has worked on many archaeological excavation and field survey projects in Britain and elsewhere in Europe. From 1986 to 1989 he was an IBM UK Scientific Centre Research Fellow and became Research Scientist in 1989. He is a Visiting Fellow at the Archaeological Computing Research Group, University of Southampton. He has written many papers and a book, as well as editing several conference proceedings, books and journals relating to computer applications and art practice in archaeological research.