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Continue reading →: Launchy
I’m quite bare-bones when it comes to my PC. I go through the damn things like a wrecker ball in PC world and so cant be bothered to personalise them much. As a result I use them pretty much out of the box, so I’m not a big fan of…
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Continue reading →: More symphonic metel madness
In the last month or so I’ve been listening to the new albums from Within Temptation and Lacuna Coil. I’ve discovered both of these bands in the last year and subsequently realised that they are already massively popular just out of earshot, which is always mildly disappointing, but it hasn’t…
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Continue reading →: Spiderman 3
At last I had a chance to see the Summer’s big film (well – May’s big film) in the form of Spiderman 3: Spiderman vs the icky-black-goo thing and the sandpit dude. I have low expectations of superhero films; for years I was convinced that if only they treated the…
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Continue reading →: We have met the enemy and he is us
I know that I’m just another liberal lefty academic but all the same I was very impressed with this piece by the historian Chalmers Johnson on the current path of the American Empire. Occasionally I watch some 1970’s American TV show or film and am reminded of how much we…
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Continue reading →: You will soon be able to download music online!
Yes, folks – hidden away in the depths of the BBC technology pages is the revelation that at last, after years of false starts and obfuscation, you will finally be able to legally download music online. Of course, many people falsely believe that they can already download music. They are…
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Continue reading →: Electronic Voting
I live in Wiltshire, in the Borough of Swindon, and so I was one of the people who got the chance to try the new electronic voting system at last Thursday’s Council elections. I didn’t vote beforehand, but opted to use the computer in the polling station – it was…
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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…
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 