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The many job titles of Peter Bentley
I've been many things in my career to date. A scientist, science writer, author, science communicator, public speaker, professor. I've also sometimes been a programmer, an app developer, web designer, photographer, editor, and publisher. I've also been called quite a few things. A maverick, polymath, and, well a few less…
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BBC Focus Magazine - A World of Uploaded Memories
I was commissioned a couple of months ago to write another piece for BBC Focus magazine. They wanted a speculative article, discussing what the world might be like if the technology existed to upload our memories into computers. I couldn't resist giving them a short story - not what they…
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Systemic computer or Skynet?
Below I mentioned that my systemic computer was featured in a New Scientist article. Since then, the work has been picked up worldwide and has appeared in many surprising places. Many thanks for the interest! Some of the other articles have included, erm... some interesting claims. Just to clarify: the…
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Systemic Computer in New Scientist
We've been working on my systemic computer for several years but it's only now that we have a working hardware version, thanks to my talented EngD student Christos Sakellariou. The computer is a result of more than a decade of research into modelling natural processes using conventional computers (processes such as…
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iStethoscope Pro helps to save the life of a baby
For those of you who follow the support blog of iStethoscope Pro you may have already seen this message. In case you haven't, I thought I would place a copy here. It's an amazing story left by one of the users of my app. Many thanks for sharing the story,…
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TEDxBermuda
I was lucky enough to be invited to speak at TEDxBermuda in October. It was a very interesting experience, with other speakers including John Sculley of Pepsi and Apple fame. I was the first speaker, and as I joked at the time, if anything was likely to go wrong, it…
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Digitized in a bestseller list
My new book Digitized continues to gain nice reviews in the media and I've recently been informed that we've made a bestseller list in USA, as reported by Library Journal Reviews. We may not be able to beat the book on Steve Jobs, but I'm happy being at number 5…
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