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Continue reading →: The Last Golden Age of TelevisionWhen I was a student one of my neighbors in my University halls of residence popped in with a 3.5inch floppy disk, and told me that on it was a file in a new format called MP3. At the time audio compression was pretty abysmal, and a 3 min song…
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Continue reading →: Must Invaders Die?
The Prodigy make angry music for calm minds. I’ve been a fan since a friend lent me Music for the Jilted Generation some time around ’95, and since then the Prodigy’s music has got angrier and louder, and thumped and twisted its way to the edges of genius. Fat of…
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Continue reading →: Stephen Fry: Computer Science Linguistics 101
Stephen Fry continues on his merry rise to sainthood with his latest podcast about Language and Linguistics. In fact it’s more of a love poem to words, but it’s so sprinkled with wry commentary on structuralism, etymology and modern day pedantry that you could use it directly as a student…
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Continue reading →: The Dangerous Future of Hard SemanticsToday I’ve been at a workshop organised by the JISC SemTech project (which I am a part of, but which is being led by my colleague Thanassis Tiropanis). The aim of the workshop was to discuss the possible role of semantic technologies in HE and FE, reflect on which semantic…
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Continue reading →: Cynical Ticket to Ride UK VariantWe all know that it was the railroads that built America, which might explain the happy and nostalgic feel for them in Ticket To Ride. However in the UK it was the Romans that built everything and frankly the railroads just cut dirty great lines across all their great stuff.…
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Continue reading →: Ticket to Ride UK Ferries and Tunnels
One of the first updates for my Ticket to Ride UK Board was this Tunnels and Ferries version (based on the Europe edition of the game) sent to me by Rob in May 2007. Or you can download the map as eight separate A4 (or US Letter) sheets: R1C1 –…
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Continue reading →: Ticket to Ride UK Map
Back in 2006 I created a UK board for the Ticket to Ride game published by Days of Wonder. I posted the map on the BoardGameGeek website and to date the page has been viewed over twenty thousand times. In the Summer when I redesigned my website the Ticket to…
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Continue reading →: Crack Defense
I’m a sucker for a good Tower Defense game (with or without FMV), and this week I’ve been playing Tap Defense on the iPhone, a great free example of the genre. Tap Defense is a simple (but very addictive) game, based on three maps and six tower types, all of…
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Continue reading →: Something Open This Way ComesAt Southampton we have a history of Open Access Research, and a number of my colleagues (in particular Les Carr and Stevan Harnad) are heavily involved with the Open Access movement. At its heart Open Access Research holds the principle that publicly funded research should be available for free. It…
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Continue reading →: Congratulations America
Americans like to style their president as the Leader of the Free World, and in many ways this is not a bad description. America is the most powerful of the democratic nations that respects freedom of religious, political and intellectual expression. The free world is an informal billion-person family of…
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 