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Continue reading →: Something Open This Way ComesAt Southampton we have a history of Open Access Research, and a number of my colleagues (in particular Les Carr and Stevan Harnad) are heavily involved with the Open Access movement. At its heart Open Access Research holds the principle that publicly funded research should be available for free. It…
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Continue reading →: Congratulations America
Americans like to style their president as the Leader of the Free World, and in many ways this is not a bad description. America is the most powerful of the democratic nations that respects freedom of religious, political and intellectual expression. The free world is an informal billion-person family of…
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Continue reading →: Does m-learning exist?I’ve been involved in mobile and pervasive learning research for around six years, but this year was the first time that I’ve attended two of the leading events in the field: IADIS m-learning (held back in April), and m-learn (which I attended last week). I enjoyed both events – not…
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Continue reading →: How is the Semantic Web like Open Hypermedia?Will history be kind to Open Hypermedia? The other day I gave a presentation on the Evolution of the Web to our new Masters students (part of their pre-sessional programme at Southampton) and I was forced to face an awkward thought. Open Hypermedia was an interesting side road of the…
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Continue reading →: WikiSym 2008I’m currently attending WikiSym 2008 in Porto, Portugal. WikiSym is a small conference with a mix of participants: wiki enthusiasts, developers, researchers, consultants, cynics and evengalists. It also has a very open freeform structure, helped along by the fantastic Portuguese sunshine (a weather event not seen in the UK since…
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Continue reading →: Starry Starry Second Life
Saw a great video pop up on Digg a little while ago, less Mac-based then the last one, and this time proving that there is a point to Second Life (even if its not quite the samauri sword filled metaverse that we might have hoped for). This video by Robbie…
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Continue reading →: Duck Taped by Apple in California
Why is the brilliance of the new iPhone 3G so intangible? When I try and explain why I’ve replaced one 3G, GPS enabled, touch screen smart phone (a TyTN II) with another I get blank stares. When I show people how it works, they nod and smile as if to…
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Continue reading →: Open Ports for Open Minds
I’m at the JISC Innovation Forum this week. The Forum is a chance for people working for and funded by JISC to get together and discuss the big challenges in HE, FE and e-learning. The event is arranged around a number of discussion sessions, panels and forum (so its unlike…
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Continue reading →: ICALT 2008 – A Cottage Conference?Last week I was at IEEE ICALT 2008, held in Santander,Spain. Last year’s conference was a bit of a wakeup call for me, partly because of Mark Eisenstadt’s wonderful keynote, and partly because of the realisation of just how quickly Web trends were making much of the presented work obsolete.…
Welcome,
I’m David
I am Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton, UK within the Data, Intelligence, and Society group in ECS. I am also Head of the Education Group within ECS with the goal of improving education across the whole of Electronics and Computer Science in a meaningful, healthy, and sustainable way.
My research roots are in Hypertext, but my current interests are in Interactive Digital Narratives, Mixed Reality Games, and AI Knowledge Interfaces.
David Millard 