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Continue reading →: 2001: An Event Horizon
Imagine a world in which The Sword of Shannara was written before the Lord of the Rings. It’s good, Tolkien’s critics might say, but its just a reworking of that Brook’s drivel – isn’t Gandalf just Allanon with a beard? Why has Shea shrunk? Swords, rings, who cares? In a…
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Continue reading →: 300
Wow! – the Battle of Thermopylae has never looked so good. I’ve just watched the film adaptation of Frank Miller’s 300, itself based on the 1962 film The 300 Spartans. I’ve been struggling a bit with how to describe it – the critics are divided, is it a 21st century…
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Continue reading →: CnC on the Cheap
I came across this tower defense game on del.icio.us. I found it oddly familiar, and then realised that it’s essentially Command and Conquer on an etch-o-sketch. No wonder it comes naturally, I’ve been playing its big brother all week. Oddly satisfying High score to date: 1998
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Continue reading →: Commanding and Conquering
I love the smell of Mammoth Tanks in the morning. A few days ago I grabbed myself a copy of Command and Conquer 3 and I’m currently enjoying smashing, crushing and blasting my way through the Brotherhood of Nod. It was in my student days that I was first introduced…
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Metal Owls
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Continue reading →: Metal OwlsDon’t you love it when surveys confirm your own prejudices 🙂 A few years back I came across a Times article about how Night Owls were the wiser (I think based on this Science article), condemning the dim-witted Larks with one well-aimed comparison (Churchill = Owl, Blair = Lark). Now…
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Continue reading →: Sir Tim
Is it just me, or at the mention of Sir Tim does everyone look around nervously for the vicious Chicken of Bristol? Brave, brave, Sir Tim Berners-Lee – the inventor of the Web – is a Professor at the University of Southampton, and I’ve just returned from his Inaugural Lecture…
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Continue reading →: The Great Climate Change Swindle
I finally got around to watching last weeks Dispatches program (Channel 4, UK) on the arguments against climate change. It was a fascinating, well made piece of rhetoric, although I’d rather have seen a balanced presentation of the facts. We are long past the point about arguing about whether climate…
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Continue reading →: Glofiish X500
I recently upgraded my PDA Phone from the i-mate JAM that I’ve had for the last two years to the new Glofiish X500 from ETEN. They’re very similar devices – but the X500 has twice the processor power, and built in WiFi and GPS. I’ve had the X500 for about…
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So why have a blog?
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Continue reading →: So why have a blog?I have resisted the temptation to blog for a while now – it all seemed rather pointless when I have a perfectly good website (est. 1994) to stand and rave at the disinterested passing world. But I’ve worked in the hypertext research community for nearly ten years now, and have…
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 