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Continue reading →: Ticket to Ride UK Ferries and Tunnels
One of the first updates for my Ticket to Ride UK Board was this Tunnels and Ferries version (based on the Europe edition of the game) sent to me by Rob in May 2007. Or you can download the map as eight separate A4 (or US Letter) sheets: R1C1 –…
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Continue reading →: Ticket to Ride UK MapBack in 2006 I created a UK board for the Ticket to Ride game published by Days of Wonder. I posted the map on the BoardGameGeek website and to date the page has been viewed over twenty thousand times. In the Summer when I redesigned my website the Ticket to…
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Continue reading →: Crack Defense
I’m a sucker for a good Tower Defense game (with or without FMV), and this week I’ve been playing Tap Defense on the iPhone, a great free example of the genre. Tap Defense is a simple (but very addictive) game, based on three maps and six tower types, all of…
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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…
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 