Today is Ada Lovelace Day - a celebration of the original computer scientist and daughter of the esteemed Lord Byron. So in honour of this I'm joining in the fun and posting about an inspirational women in STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths ( Read more... )

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I cant say that the last month has been productive. In fact it has been disappointingly slow and its starting to feel like a long time since I did any serious research. As a result of a serious bout of winter flu I've been off my feet quite a bit and its been frustrating as there is so much I would have liked to have gotten done in advance of next ( Read more... )

Our "happenings" at AT this week have finally concluded. It was a great day today, feeling like the finish line is finally in sight. The sun came out, we did the last couple of experiments in the early afternoon, then me and stef primal screamed our hearts out the good old corkscrew. 4 days of data, umpteen research questions, first encounter of ( Read more... )

 Research is officially amazing. Every now and again, something happens with your experiment and bang! you get hit with some unexpected results which just blow your head off. I cant be chewed with going into the details, but lets just say that electromagnets and biometric devices are not necessarily a good combination - yup, we lost the biosensor ( Read more... )

Back in the late 1990's newcastle united had a team which they should have beaten but regularly didnt, namely Southampton FC - their bogey team. In a similar manner, over the years I've not had much luck with submissions to the journal associated with ICARIS - my bogey submission. The review paper we were going to submit ended up too rushed and is ( Read more... )

Been getting my head around what is going to go on in the field experiment next week. I understand now what this feasibility study is all about and am looking forward to having nearly one week out of the office. Its great how its all coming together. Yet, its going to be an effort to manage my time effectively enough that I can devote some real ( Read more... )

Been off to do some field work today for the Thrill Laboratory. Despite the rain we managed to get round 7/8 rides and test that the new kit will physically fit on the rides we want to study. The good news is that the biometric data I have is synchronised, which makes my life a lot easier. Also I managed to do a couple of studies on Oblivion, to ( Read more... )

This week I fielded a number of challenging questions about my research, through the interview process for my lecturing position. One of such questions was about the extent to which the modelling of the immune system is taken to. I stated that in contrast to previous approaches, that we had adopted an approach of rigourous modelling. This was mis- ( Read more... )

Tomorrow I move offices. To my own office, because I'm now a lecturer in Computer Science. I've got a feeling I'm going to need to start blogging again :) I mean it this time.