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Continue reading →: The Sublime Iain M. BanksIain Banks died yesterday. He was 59. He announced in April that he was suffering from terminal cancer and expected to live less than a year. The announcement was made with all the grace and black humour that you may have expected from the author of The Wasp Factory and…
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Continue reading →: The Email Heresy
Let’s just say it. Email isn’t working. In fact its got to the point where ‘not working’ doesn’t describe the problem anymore. Email has moved beyond not working, it has become anti-work. Technology often benefits from Network Effects, a phenomenon where something becomes more useful the more people adopt it.…
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Continue reading →: In Praise of the Ephemeral
There is a creeping view in our society that data is forever. For some reason whilst we are happy for our spoken words to vanish into the ether, our written words and media must be hewn in stone (or at least backed up at an off-site data centre). Judge of…
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Continue reading →: The Batman #Wins!
This Summer three collosal superhero franchises came to do battle in our cinemas. The Amazing Spiderman, The Avengers and the Dark Knight Rises. Looking back at the three films it’s interesting that they all took different approaches at making the ludicrous entertaining. Spiderman took the low road, rehashing old action…
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Continue reading →: Danny Boyle’s Neverland
Danny Boyle’s opening ceremony for the London 2012 olympics was a triumph. An absolute triumph. I would normally hesitate to lavish such uncritical praise in public, but the potential to get this wrong was so strong, such a whirlpool of possible failure, that to steer such a certain and confident…
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Continue reading →: Whose Games is it Anyway?
I used to be excited about the London Olympics. It was a measured, rational excitement (I don’t do giddy), but I was definitely looking forward to them. I was also happy to argue with those that said that they would be a waste of money, or doomed to fail, but…
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Continue reading →: Hypertext 2012: Fractal Narratives, Ergodic Literature and Submarines
I have just returned from the ACM conference in Milwaukee, excellently run and as interesting as ever, but smaller than it has been in a number of years. I also co-chaired the Hypertext and Narrative workshop with my old student Charlie Hargood (now a postdoc at Southampton). The Narrative workshop…
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Continue reading →: Prometheus – Splatter Fun of the Farcical Kind** Warning – if for some reason you didn’t think that this film featured a strong female lead, a treacherous android and lots of crew members that all get horribly killed, then this review contains spoilers. ** Ridley Scott has once again returned to the world of Alien in his…
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Continue reading →: The Praxis of Ideas (Why Computer Science is Awesome)
There has been a lot of coverage of ICT education in the UK press over the last few months, including a number noting how poorly ICT at School prepares students for real Computer Science. The relationship between ICT and Computer Science is part of the problem, as ICT seems to…
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Continue reading →: You Can Type This Shit, John Carter…Last week I managed to get to the cinema to watch John Carter (who is definitely not from Mars, no Sir, not at all) a 250 million dollar Disney extravaganza, carefully pitched at people who don’t like Sci-fi or Fantasy, but do like epic escapist legends set on other planets.…
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 