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Continue reading →: Free, as in Web Designs
This month I discovered the wonders of free web design. I’m not sure why it never occurred to me before, but it turns out that there is a blossoming community of web designers out there who are in it for the glory, and who make their designs available on sites…
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Continue reading →: ACM Hypertext 2008 and Web Science WorkshopUpdate 27-10-08: A more formal version of this blog entry appeared in the SIGWEB Newsletter as the Hypertext 2008 trip report. You can find the full text as a pre-print in the ECS e-prints repository. I’ve just got back from this years ACM Hypertext Conference in Pittsburgh, PA. Hypertext ’98…
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Continue reading →: Bon Jovi at Southampton
Last night I went to see Bon Jovi play at St. Mary’s Stadium in Southampton – it was the first UK date of their Lost Highway Tour. My wife Jo and I don’t really share the same tastes in music, she likes unbearable cat stranglers like Westlife and Enrique Iglesias,…
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Continue reading →: OSX again and again
I came across this fabulous music video created by Dennis Liu using only Mac OSX – even if I hadn’t switched I’d think this was brilliant: I’ve been using the Mac now for almost two months and the shine hasn’t rubbed off yet. Some of my earlier quibbles have disappeared…
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Continue reading →: Thanks to the unique way the BBC is funded…
Over the last few weeks the BBC have been running what at first seems a trailer for Panorama. In the trailer a camera pans over dimly lit streets of circuitry, diodes flicker like broken lamps, and sink estates wallow in the shadows of tall capacitors. “Your town; your street; your…
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Continue reading →: The Art of Visual Complexity
Tom Franklin pointed me towards this really neat website called VisualComplexity run by an interaction designer called Manuel Lima, which is a catalog/index of interesting data visualisation techniques, examples and tools. At the moment there are over 500 items in there, and you can filter by what is being visualised…
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Continue reading →: Podcasting
Earlier this month I went to Portugal for the IADIS m-learning conference, a smallish conference on e-learning and mobile devices. The conference was really quite interesting, although it had a curiously ex-pat feel to it because of the number of UK delegates. One presentation really got me thinking, it was…
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Continue reading →: In the Beginning there was the Word, and the Word was: Crash!
Arghhh!!! What is wrong with Microsoft? How has one of the biggest software companies in the world got it so wrong? As you may know I recently escaped to a Mac to avoid the problematic and unappealing MS Vista, unfortunately I still do a lot of document editing and so…
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Continue reading →: The Switch is Flipped
In my last post I described why I have decided to switch to a Mac. Well a shiny new MacBook Pro rolled up earlier this week, I’ve had a few days to acclimatise, and its probably a good time to report on what life is like this side of the…
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Continue reading →: Switching to Mac
Right – that’s it. I’ve had enough. It’s time to say goodbye. I’m fed up of hourglasses, crappy modal dialog boxes, ugly UI and an OS that reboots itself without bothering to ask first. After 15 years of suffering its time to move on. I’ve decided to buy a Mac.…
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 