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Article in Nature Immunology
A couple of years ago I spent some time collaborating with Gordana Novakovic - an artist who specialises in working with scientists and engineers, using "new media" to help create her artwork. I helped get her the position of artist-in-residence at UCL and we obtained funding from various sources to…
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iStethoscope is UCL News
Yet more publicity for my iStethoscope Pro iphone application. This time UCL News has decided to publish a little interview with me. You can read it online here: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0909/09092402 Also, last Friday a cardiologist flew all the way from USA to chat to me about this work and the possibility of further…
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Numbers, numbers everywhere
Cassell illustrated, the publisher for my big glossy book the Book of Numbers have just told me that the book continues to be sold to more and more countries. I haven't received copies of all of them, but apparently it has sold in Chinese, Dutch, Finnish, French (France), French (Canada),…
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September RI cafe scientifique
This Monday I hosted this month's Royal Institution cafe scientifique as usual. Our guest was my editor at WIRED - Manjit Kumar, who came and talked to us about his book "Quantum." The audience was stunned into mild shock by the mind twisting nature of quantum physics. I wish Manjit…
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iStethoscope Pro publicity
The last few hours has seen an increase in interest in my iphone app iStethoscope Pro. UCL has recognised the app in The Provost's Newsletter 14 September 2009, I include the text below: A new application has been released by Dr Peter Bentley of the Digital Biology Group in UCL Computer…
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Japanese reader comment for The Book of Numbers
I just received my first message from a reader of the Japanese translation of The Book of Numbers. I tried to reply but the email bounced back. Anyway, thanks for the message... I'm not sure the reader is using the conventional definition of amicable numbers in the maths below, but…
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new iphone app iAuscultate out soon
Following the interest from cardiologists in my iphone application iStethoscope, a few months ago I began a collaboration with cardiologist researcher Glenn Nordehn based at the Medical School of the University of Minnesota Duluth. This led to the professional version, iStethoscope Pro which according to Glenn works better than many…
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