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Continue reading →: StoryPlaces – Southampton Old TownLast week we ran our first location-based story event as part of the StoryPlaces project, making location-based stories based around Southampton Old Town available to members of the public. We set up in the beautiful Tudor House, and over three days helped around 100 people to read one of 6 stories set…
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Continue reading →: The Sound of DisturbedYou may have unwittingly heard it in the background of the latest Gears of War trailer, but its worth drawing your attention to this fine version of Simon and Garfunkel’s The Sound of Silence as performed by Disturbed. It’s not without its critics, who point out its all a bit…
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Continue reading →: Tales of TireeIn March I travelled up to the Scottish Island of Tiree with my StoryPlaces partner-in-crime Charlie Hargood in order to take part in the 11th Tiree Tech Wave organised by Alan Dix. The Tech Wave is a creative space where people can come together to talk interesting ideas and make cool things.…
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Continue reading →: GlobalGameJam16, 33 Great Games and WispA couple of weeks ago Southampton hosted one of the Global Game Jam events (#sotongamejam). The Global Game Jam is a series of events across the world where amateurs and professionals work alone or in small teams and try to complete a game within 48 hours, the Southampton event happened…
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Continue reading →: With Thomas Tallis on my iPodI met Terry Pratchett. It was a fleeting encounter at a book signing in Southampton; the lines were long, and I blurted as much to him when I reached the end. “To Dave,” he wrote, “who was born in the queue.” It’s not a bad two second appraisal. I am…
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Continue reading →: Glorious
In the last few weeks Mark Bernstein, a leading light in digital culture, and an established figure in the hypertext and web community has posted a sequence of articles (Infamous, Careless, Thoughtless, Reckless and most recently Caring) on #Gamergate and that movement’s use of Wikipedia. Particularly the proposal by the Arbitration Committee to ban key editors who were…
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Continue reading →: Chuck Vs The BoxsetsI just watched Chuck. All 91 episodes of it. There is something about this five season spy spoof that really worked for me. Without a doubt it’s my favorite TV show since I watched Buffy some fifteen years ago. You can like a TV show for all sorts of reasons,…
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Continue reading →: You Kippers
Imagine if you will a super-national organisation dedicated to peace. It’s population is over half a billion, and it has the largest GDP on Earth (some 16.6 trillion US dollars). It is a fiercely progressive place, with universal suffrage, laws to foster equality for women, protection for children, rights for…
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Continue reading →: Brutal Engineering
Over the last few months I have been co-organising a workshop for this year’s Web Science Conference on interdisciplinary; the aim is to collect together interdisciplinary experiences (from Coups and Calamities) and reflect on some of the disciplinary differences that make Web Science research so interesting. It has caused me…
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Continue reading →: A Positive No: Why Britain Needs Systems Engineering
It has been said that for Scotland, being in a union with England is like being in bed with an elephant. The numbers speak for themselves. Scotland has a population of just over 5 million, England over 53 million. That makes Scotland around the same size (in population) as Yorkshire,…
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 