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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.…
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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…
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 Human-AI interaction.
You can read my substack, The Stranger’s Notebook, for my thoughts on the AI revolution.
David Millard 