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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.…
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Continue reading →: Nativism vs. Literacy
I have read a number of pieces recently attacking the notion of the Digital Native – Prensky’s notion that there is a new generation of students who are in some way soaked in technology to the extent that it has changed their behaviour. Stephen Marshall suggests that the concept of the…
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Continue reading →: It should make us WinCE
I can’t bear it any longer. I can feel the rage building as I push forward through the crowd, people jostle and I duck a stray elbow. I catch a glimpse of him through the pressing bodies. I can’t believe no-one else has noticed. Most people seem enraptured, but some…
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 