A brief guide to eclipses, aliens and trying to keep quiet
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By now everyone has met the heuristic: if a piece of writing contains...
Announcing the 2026 Wilkes Award
As Editor-in-Chief of The Computer Journal, published by Oxford University Press on behalf...
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I was very sad to hear that Professor John Fitch, my undergraduate dissertation...
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Statistics, trust and the information ecosystem
On being appointed an RSS William Guy Lecturer for 2026/27. I am pleased...
New role: ACM Secretary/Treasurer (2026–2028)
I’ve been elected Secretary/Treasurer of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for a...
From research questions to evidence infrastructure: DCMS Areas of Research Interest 2026
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