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SIGEVO article on AppEco
I've been working with Soo Ling Lim recently on a computational model of the App Store. It's partly made possible by my experiences with the app iStethoscope Pro which has produced a lot of fascinating data. The work has just been featured in a magazine called SIGEVO, with the front…
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Digitized 10 out of 10 for BCS
It's not often authors get unequivocally glowing reviews for their books, but I'm very pleased to say that the British Computer Society seems to have written such a review for my new book Digitized. Ten out of ten! I am greatly flattered, many thanks!
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Peter's TEDxUCL talk
On Sunday 3 June I participated in the first TEDxUCL event. There were a range of talks on a diverse variety of topics. I was allocated one of the longest slots and made use of the time to talk about some of the ideas in my research I've been developing…
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Encyclopaedia Britannica Blog: Five Questions
All this blogging is quite unusual for me! Not long ago I was interviewed by the Encyclopaedia Britannica Blog folks so an article could be produced. It also reviews my recent book Digitized. I quite enjoyed these questions - a little different from the norm. You can read the…
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US OUP Blog - Maurice Wilkes on Alan Turing
I was asked a few weeks ago to write an article for the US Oxford's OUPblog. They're running a sequence of entries from authors about Turing to celebrate 100 years since Alan Turing was born. Having written Digitized recently, which includes the stories of many pioneers of computing, not just…
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Peter on BBC Radio 4 Material World
Material World is a BBC Radio 4 science show hosted by Quentin Cooper that features interviews with various scientists. This week it was my turn, appearing with the curator of a new turing exhibit in the Science Museum. We had a ten minute slot (quite a long time in radio…
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Generalist review of Digitized
It's not so new, but it's only just come to my attention - another nice review of my book Digitized on The Generalist blog. Many thanks! There's also another review in the New York Journal of Books.
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