(1) Digital Preservation & Future Proof Computing

I co-lead the Future Proof Computing Group.  Over the last two years our group has particiapted in funded research activity worth over £13m and has attracted nearly £1m in research funding to the University of Portsmouth.

(a)  The KEEP Project - EU Grant Agreement ICT 231954 (£4m)

        

Principal Investigator (UoP) David Anderson

Dr. Janet Delve and I lead the Portsmouth KEEP team which includes Dr Dan Pinchbeck, Dr Leo Konstantelos, Dr Milena Dobreva and Dr Antonio Ciuffreda.   KEEP is a European consortium which is developing emulation techniques for preserving digital objects: text, sound, and image files; multimedia documents, websites, databases, videogames etc. The overall aim of the project is to facilitate long-term, universal access to our cultural heritage by developing flexible tools for accessing and storing a wide range of digital objects.

We are addressing the problems of transferring digital objects stored on outdated computer media such as floppy discs onto current storage devices. This involves the specification of file formats and the production of transfer tools exploited within a framework, and takes into account possible legal and technical issues.

Although primarily aimed at those involved in Cultural Heritage, such as memory institutions and games museums, the Emulation Services we develop also serve the needs of a wide range of organisations and individuals because of their universal approach based on porting emulators on a Virtual Machine. In this way we are creating the foundation for the next generation of permanent access strategies based on emulation.

The particular focus of the Portsmouth KEEP team within the wider effort is the investigation of metadata models to describe the technical environment needed for emulation; creating GUIs for both the Emulation Framework, and the Virtual Machine peripheral device manager; developing a transfer tool framework; and dissemination to the Computer Science community.

 

(b)  Digital Preservation Console Project (Development Study) - JISC £13k

Coordinators David Anderson & Janet Delve (University of Portsmouth)

This small project seeks to investigate the extent to which it might be possible to develop an
intuitive graphical user interface (GUI) to enable non‐specialist information professionals to
undertake a variety of preservation and information management tasks with a minimum of
preservation‐specific theoretical knowledge. This ‘Digital Preservation Console’, should offer
considerable opportunity for capacity‐building across institutions to manage, preserve and
strategically discard digital material.

(c)  POCOS (Preservation Of Complex Objects Symposia) - JISC £185k

   

Coordinators David Anderson & Janet Delve (University of Portsmouth)

Over recent years significant progress has been made in understanding the issues involved in preserving complex materials and environments. European projects such as Planets and KEEP have provided tools and techniques which have moved forward the state of the art. The POCOS project will deliver a series of 3 symposia at locations across the United Kingdom at which global thought-leaders in research into the Preservation of Complex Objects will share and thereby extend the body of knowledge on this topic. Each seminar will be supported by a substantial and innovative dissemination programme to ensure that the maximum long-term value is obtained from the outputs of the seminar. This will include the production of a peer-reviewed book of the outputs from each symposium offered to the community in a variety of low-cost (or free) formats including print-on-demand, PDF/A and free Kindle e-book. It is also proposed to webcast and/or web-release parts of each symposium in order to increase access for the community. POCOS will deliver pathfinder conclusions to the JISC community which will contribute to shaping the future direction of research in this area.

Project Partners: University of Portsmouth, British Library, King's College London, HATII (Univ. Glasgow), Joguin sas.

(d) APARSEN : Alliance Permanent Access to the Records of Science in Europe Network - EU Project Reference 269977 (£8.69m)

   

Portsmouth participates in APARSEN via the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC)

Project Objectives

Digital preservation offers the economic and social benefits associated with the long-term preservation of information, knowledge and know-how for re-use by later generations. However, digital preservation has a great problem, namely that preservation support structures are built on projects which are short lived and is fragmented. The unique feature of APARSEN is that it is building on the already established Alliance for Permanent Access (APA), a membership organisation of major European stakeholders in digital data and digital preservation. These stakeholders have come together to create a shared vision and framework for a sustainable digital information infrastructure providing permanent access to digitally encoded information.

To this self-sustaining grouping APARSEN will bring a wide range of other experts in digital preservation including academic and commercial researchers, as well as researchers in other cross-European organisations.

The members of the APA and other members of the consortium already undertake research in digital preservation individually but even here the effort is fragmented despite smaller groupings of these organisations working together in specific EU and national projects. APARSEN will help to combine and integrate these programmes into a shared programme of work, thereby creating the pre-eminent virtual research centre in digital preservation in Europe, if not the World. The APA provides a natural basis for a longer term consolidation of digital preservation research and expertise.

The Joint Programme of Activity will cover:
- technical methods for preservation, access and most importantly re-use of data holdings over the whole lifecycle;
- legal and economic issues including costs and governance issues as well as digital rights;
- outreach within and outside the consortium to help to create a discipline of data curators with appropriate qualifications.

Coordinator: Science and Technologies Facilities Council, UK

 

(e) TIMBUS : Timeless Business Processes - EU Project Reference (TBA)

   

Portsmouth participates in APARSEN via the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC)

TIMBUS - a shorthand for Timeless Business Processes - is designed to offer 'timeless business processes and services', filling a gap within existing preservation solutions. Migration tools now exist to provide long term management of data and emulation approaches and services are in development for long term access to software so that information objects can be rendered. However business processes rely on increasingly complicated networks of responsibility in which services and data are shared. The dependencies associated with a 'web of services' are seldom properly documented and the risk management required to assess and resolve these risks becomes increasingly complicated as the interdependence of services grows. If the execution context of business processes assumes that services and data are available, then digital preservation services will also need to provide mechanisms that describe and where necessary exhume defunct processes.

TIMBUS responds to emerging trends within business information environments. It acknowledges the declining popularity of centralized 'in house' business processes and supporting services and technical infrastructure in favour of the 'Internet of Services' in which software and platform are developed and delivered as a service. This on-demand architecture is popular because it provides greater flexibility and scalability at reduced costs – but it also raises questions of dependability and durability. TIMBUS will therefore establish the set of processes and tools necessary to ensure continued access to services over decades. It will do this by developing and expanding tools for intelligent enterprise risk management, service dependency monitoring, legalities lifecycle management and the virtualisation of distributed and interdependent services.

 

(2) The History of Computing.

I am particularly interested in the development of the electronic digital computer. I begin in 1936 with Turing’s paper “On computable numbers, with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem” and finish, more or less, with Turing’s death in 1954. This captures well most of the significant early developments in the field on both sides of the Atlantic and opens up for study a number of areas which have received little attention elsewhere or have been treated with less rigour than one would hope.

I am focussed on the, largely unknown, contribution to early computing of the Cambridge topologist Maxwell Herman Alexander Newman. This has led me to investigate Newman's attempt to build a computer at the University of Manchester immediately after the end of WWII. My research has been able to show that the conventional history of the period is substantially in error. I have been able to uncover three significant "myths" which underlie much of the dominant discourse in British History of Computing.

The Newman Digital Archive

I am leading the development of a digital archive comprising the papers and memorabilia of the mathematician and computer pioneer M.H.A. Newman. This is a joint project with St. John’s College, Cambridge. The physical archive currently contains approximately 650 items and the digital version is in excess of 3000 scanned pages. When complete this will be the world’s biggest digital archive in the History of Computing. I also worked on the Turing Digital Archive (currently the world’s largest such enterprise).

(3) Paraconsistent reasoning

This is a way of overcoming the inability of computers to deal properly with inconsistent data by virtue of being based on classical logic and therby subject to the logical principle ex contradictione quodlibet. Since the turn of the 20th century a number of interesting alternatives to classical logic have been propsed offering varying degrees of effectiveness. Unfortunately such success as they have achieved has been purchased at the cost of sacrificing most of the reasoning tools on which systems, in practice, depend.

I have developed a completely novel approach which has resulted in the development of a group of new paraconsistent systems which arguably achieve an optimal weakening of classical logic. The Epsilon family of logics demonstrably outperform all other 4-valued paraconsistent systems. For the first time, a complete replacement for classical logic can now be contemplated.

As an extension of this work I have provided a tree derivation procedure as a refinement of Beth’s semantic tableaux method and Gentzen’s sequent calculus that provides a straightforward means by which truth-functional multivalued and paraconsistent reasoning systems may be automated.

Qualifications

• B.A. Hons (Philosophy)
• Ph.D. (Artificial Intelligence)

Funded Research

• 2009 Principal Investigator (UoP) KEEP (Keeping Emulation Environments Portable) EU Grant Agreement ICT 231954 (£4m)
• 2010 Principal Investigator: Digital Preservation Console Scoping Study [JISC (£13k)]
• 2010 Joint Principal Investigator: Data Warehousing within a Digital Preservation Context Scoping Study [JISC (£2k)]
• 2011 Joint Coordinator: POCOS (Preservation of Complex Digital Objects Symposia) [JISC (£130k)

Authored Books

• 2012 The Trusted Online Technical Environment Metadata Database – TOTEM
  Series: Manfred Thaller [ed.]: "Kölner Beiträge zu einer geisteswissenschaftlichen Fachinformatik“
  ISBN 978-3-8300-6418-3 Publisher: Verlag Dr. Kovac, Hamburg (http://www.verlagdrkovac.de/). Co-Author: Janet Delve
• 1989 Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Systems (ISBN 9780470214084), Ellis Horwood, Chichester

Edited Books

• 2012 The Preservation of Complex Objects (Volume 1): Visualisations and Simulations (ISBN 97886 137 630 5).  Anderson D, Delve J, Dobreva M, Konstantelos L. (Series Editors)
• 2012 The Preservation of Complex Objects (Volume 2): Gaming Environments and Virtual Worlds. (ISBN 97886 137 631 2).  Anderson D, Delve J, Dobreva M, Konstantelos L. (Series Editors)
• 2012 The Preservation of Complex Objects (Volume 3): Software Based Art   (ISBN 97886 137 620 9).  Anderson D, Delve J, Dobreva M, Konstantelos L. (Series Editors)
• The Pioneers of Computing Vol 1: Europe. The Science Museum / Springer , London, date tba
• The Pioneers of Computing Vol 2: USA. The Science Museum / Springer, date tba

Journal Publications

• 2012  The Future of the Past:Reflections on the changing face of the history of computing. Communications of the ACM. (Forthcoming) ISSN: 0001-0782.
• 2010 Towards a Workable, Emulation-based Preservation Strategy: Rationale and Technical Metadata. Co -Authors: Janet Delve, Dan Pinchbeck. New Review of Information Networking ISSN: 1361-4576
• 2010 Preserving our digital cultural heritage, Resurrection The Bulletin of the Computer Conservation Society, Vol. 47.  ISSN 0958 - 740.  (forthcoming)
• 2009 An interview with Maurice Wilkes. Communications of the ACM. Volume 52 Issue 9 (September) pp.39-42  ISSN: 0001-0782.  Co-Authors: Maurice Wilkes
• 2009 Handling Contradictions in knowledge discovery applications., European Computing Conference, Proceedings of the European Computing Conference Volume 2, Part 11, pp. 1143-1158. ,Series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering , Vol. 27.  Mastorakis, Nikos; Mladenov, Valeri; Kontargyri, Vassiliki T. (Eds.)
  ISBN: 978-0-387-84813-6
• 2009 A tree derivation procedure for multivalent and paraconsistent inference. European Computing Conference, Proceedings of the European Computing Conference Volume 2, Part 15, pp. 1567-1574. Series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering , Vol. 27.  Mastorakis, Nikos; Mladenov, Valeri; Kontargyri, Vassiliki T. (Eds.)
  ISBN: 978-0-387-84813-6
• 2009 The contribution of M.H.A. Newman and his mathematicians to the creation of the Manchester 'Baby' ,The British Society for the History of Mathematics Bulletin, Taylor & Francis, Volume 24 Issue 1 pp..27-39  ISSN 1749-8430, DOI: 10.1080/17498430802554503  
• 2009 Tom Kilburn: A Pioneer of Computer Design. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, April-June 2009 (vol. 31 no. 2) pp. 82-86.  ISSN: 1058-6180  DOI http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MAHC.2009.32
• 2008 Review of "Alan Turing's Automatic Computing Engine: The master codebreaker's struggle to build the modern computer.", History & Philosophy of Logic, Taylor & Francis, ISSN 0144-5340, Vol. 29 Issue 4 (in press)
• 2008 Was the Manchester 'Baby' conceived at Bletchley Park?, BCS eWIC, http://www.bcs.org/upload/pdf/ewic_tur04_paper3.pdf
• 2007 Patrick Blackett: Physicist, Radical and Chief Architect of the Manchester Computing Phenomenon. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 29 No.3 ISSN: 1058-6180, pp.82-85 http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MAHC.2007.44
• 2007 Frederic Calland Williams: The Manchester Baby's Chief Engineer., IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 29 No.4 ISSN: 1058-6180 pp.90-93 http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MAHC.2007.54
• 2007 Max Newman: Topologist, Codebreaker and Pioneer of Computing .IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 29 No.3 ISSN: 1058-6180, pp.76-81 http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MAHC.2007.42
• 2007 Alan Turing's Automatic Computing Engine: The master codebreaker's struggle to build the modern computer, History and Philosophy of Logic, ISSN 0144-5340, Taylor & Francis,
• 2005 A research note on the discovery of a prototype Hollerith machine in Paris , The New Zealand Journal for the History and Philosophy of Technology, ISSN: 1177-1380, Co-Author(s) Hans Pufal and Janet Delve
• 2005 The French History of Computing Scene , IEEE Annals of the History of Compuitng, ISSN: 1058-6180
• 2004 Pioneers of Payroll on computers: LEO, the Army, the Navy Dockyards and De Havilland , IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, ISSN: 1058-6180, Co-Author(s) Janet Delve
• 2004 Turing in Manchester: A celebration, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, ISSN: 1058-6180
• 2004 Commemorating the life and death of Alan M. Turing , IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, ISSN: 1058-6180
• 2003 ACONIT: trying to put the ghost back in the machine.Co-author: Hans Pufal. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing Vol. 24 No.3 ,ISSN: 1058-6180
• 2003 Max Newman: forgotten father of the computer? Co-authors: Janet Delve / Mary Croarken. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing Vol. 24 No.2,ISSN: 1058-6180
• 2003 Artificial Intelligence: recollections of the pioneers. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing Vol. 24 No.1 ,ISSN: 1058-6180
• 2002 Artificial Life and the Chinese Room argument. Co -author: Jack Copeland Artificial Life Vol. VIII No. 3
• 2001 “The Pinkerton Lecture” Co -Author: Janet Delve. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing Vol. 23 No.2 pp.68-73, ISSN: 1058-6180
• 2000 Howard Aiken: Portrait of a Computer Pioneer. Information, Communication & Society
• 2000 Makin’ Numbers: Howard Aiken and the Computer. Information, Communication & Society
• 1999 Slaves of the Machine? Research in Philosophy and Technology

Other

• 2012 Laying a trail of breadcrumbs – preparing the path for preservation. In The Preservation of Complex Objects (Volume 1): Visualisations and Simulations. Anderson D, Delve J, Dobreva M, Konstantelos L. (Series Editors).   Co-Author: Drew Baker
• 2012 The Impact of European Copyright Legislation on Digital Preservation Activity: Lessons learned from Legal Studies commissioned by the KEEP project. The Preservation of Complex Objects (Volume 1): Visualisations and Simulations. Anderson D, Delve J, Dobreva M, Konstantelos L. (Series Editors)
• 2011 TOTEM: Trusted Online Technical Environment Metadata: A long-term solution for a relational database / RDF ontologies. iPRES 2011 - 8th International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects. November 1-4, 2011, Singapore.  Co-Authors: Janet Delve, Leo Konstantelos, Antonio Ciuffreda, Milena Dobreva
• 2011 Testing and Evaluation in Digital Preservation Projects: The case of KEEP.  Paper deliverered at The Sixth SEEDI Conference, Digitization of Cultural and Scientific Heritage, Zagreb, Republic of Croatia, 18th – 20th May 2011.  Co-Authors: Milena Dobreva, Janet Delve, Leo Konstantelos
• 2011 Capitalizing on the State-of-the-Art in Preserving Complex Visual Digital Objects: the POCOS Project. iPRES 2011 - 8th International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects. November 1-4, 2011, Singapore.  Co -authors: Leo Konstantelos, Drew Baker, Richard Beacham, Clive Billenness, Janet Delve, Milena Dobreva, Vincent Joguin and Sonia Sefi
• 2011 Towards an Integrated Media Transfer Environment: a Comparative Summary of Available Transfer Tools and Recommendations for the Development of a Toolset for the Preservation of Complex Digital Objects. iPRES 2011 - 8th International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects. November 1-4, 2011, Singapore Co -authors: Winfried Bergmeyer, Antonio Ciuffreda, Janet Delve, Vincent Joguin, Leo Konstantelos, Andreas Lange, Dan Pinchbeck
• 2011 Requirements and design document and database implementation for the KEEP Emulation Framework GUI.  Report to the European Comission. 23pp. Co -authors: Janet Delve, Leo Konstantelos
• 2010 Requirements and design document for the browsing system and user interface of the KEEP mulation Framework.  Report to the European Comission. 75pp. Co -authors: Janet Delve, Antonio Ciuffreda
• 2010 Contested Histories: De-mythologising the early history of modern British Computing, World Computer Conference, Brisbane.  Published in IFIP AICT (Advances in Information and Communication Technology) Series by Springer
• 2009 Preservation Metadata Standards for Emulation Access Platforms, Report to the European Comission. 85pp. Co -authors: Janet Delve, Getaneh Agegn Alemu, Dan Pichbeck, Antonio Ciuffreda.
• 2009 Guideline document and peripheral input/output libraries for digital preservation, Report to the European Comission. 23pp. Co -authors: Antonio Ciuffreda. Janet Delve, Getaneh Agegn Alemu, Dan Pichbeck, Bram Loman, David Michel, Bart Kiers, Vincent Joguin.
• 2009 The Corridors of Power: Patrick Blackett and the Political Context of Early British Computing,  SIGCIS history of computing workshop, “Michael Mahoney And The Histories of Computing(s).” Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA October 18, 2009.
• 2009 Preservation Metadata Initiatives and Standards TASI Seminar on "Digital Media +100 years“ 16th September 2009, University of Bristol:  Co-authors: Janet Delve, Dan Pinchbeck, Getaneh Alemu, Antonio Ciuffreda.
• 2009 Emulation as a strategy for the preservation of games: the KEEP project. Co -authors: Dan Pichbeck, Janet Delve, Getaneh Agegn Alemu, Antonio Ciuffreda.  Digital Games Research Assosiation (DiGRA) Loughbrough, UK, 2009
• 2008 It's amazing how many shapes the neck of a bottle can take: how a topologist changed the face of British Computing, The Newcomem Society, Portsmouth Branch
• 2008 The development of the computing community of practice: How physicists, electrical engineers and mathematicians combined to create a new community of practice. Three Societies Conference, Keble College, Oxford.
• 2008 60 years after the birth of the computing revolution: An historical reassessment of the development of the Manchester Baby. Sorbonne, Paris
• 2007 A principle-governed partial exploration of the set of all possible 4-valued contradiction-tolerant logics. IFIP/IIASA/GAMM Workshop on Coping with Uncertainty (CwU) Robust Decisions
• 2007 A simplified system for multivalent and paraconsistent inference using a tree derivation procedure, European Computing Conference 2007
• 2007 A semantic-tableaux procedure for the 4-valued paraconsistent logic Epsilon111., European Computing Conference 2007
• 2007 LM 4 : Enabling autonomous intelligent machines to handle contradictory information., Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI'07) Vol.II. ISBN: 1-60132-023-X, pp.495-500
• 2007 The contribution of M.H.A. Newman and the Department of Mathematics to the development of the world’s first stored-program computer' , British Society for History of Science, Manchester,
• 2007 Three myths of early British computing, Computer History Museum, Palo Alto, California, USA.
• 2007 Challenging the engineering perspective on computing history, SHOT 2007, Washington DC
• 2005 Broadening the Scope of Electronic Book Publishing' , IAHC Amsterdam, September 14th-17th 2005, ISBN: 90-6984-456-7, Co-Author(s) Richard Healey
• 2004 Technology transfer in the 1940s (Invited Paper) BSHM / CSHPM Joint meeting Cambridge, UK, July 2004
• 2004 Was the Manchester Baby conceived in Bletchley ? (Invited paper) Turing 2004, Manchester, UK
• 2004 'E-Checker: A prototype tool for investigating some properties of multivalent logic systems' , AISB 2004 (11th Workshop on Automated Reasoning) - Liverpool University, ISBN: 1-0902956-26-4, Co-Author(s) Peter W. Pearson
• 2004 A systematic examination of paraconsistent logic schemes, University of Salerno - 13th May 2004
• 2004 The long shadow of Colossus: How Bletchley Park changed the face of British Computing , BCS Computer Conservation Society: 28th Oct 2004
• 2003 New directions in paraconsistency. University of Manchester, 7th November 2003
• 2003 Has the Chinese room argument shown ‘strong artificial life’ to be impossible? Co-author: Jack Copeland. 7th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI 2003), Florida
• 2003 A simplified system for multivalent and paraconsistent inference using a tree derivation procedure. 7th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI 2003), Florida
• 2003 Max Newman: forgotten father of the computer, The Royal Institution, UK
• 2003 A versatile tree derivation procedure system for multivalent and paraconsis tent inference. AISB 2002 (10th Workshop on Automated Reasoning) Liverpool University, UK
• 2003 'Two values suffice for logic.... true or false?' , University of Manchester - 7th November 2003
• 2002 Is ‘Strong A -life’ possible? Co -author: Jack Copeland. 4th Asia -Pacific Conference on Simulated Evolution And Learning (SEAL 2002), Singapore
• 2002 A solution to the problem of contradiction in knowledge discovery applications. AISB 2002 (9th Workshop on Automated Reasoning) Imperial College, London
• 2002 LM4: a classically paraconsistent logic for autonomous intelligent machines The 6th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI 2002), Florida
• 2002 Developing a framework for investigating inconsistency handling in automated reasoning 6th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI 2002), Florida
• 2002 The role of Max Newman in the development of the modern computer. 'Intelligence in the 1940s: Newman, Turing, and machines'

Broadcasts

• 2010 BBC Radio 4 (Pilot) The Golden Age (of Computing) - Sarfraz Manzoor (March)
• 2009 BBC Radio Gloucestershire Interview - Mark Cummings Show(July)
• 2009 BBC Radio Solent Interview - Jon Cuthill Show(July) available on http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p003hxk8/Jon_Cuthill_29_06_2009/
• 2009 BBC Radio York Interview - Jonathan Cowap Show (July) available on http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p003hwnd/Jonathan_Cowap_29_06_2009/
• 2009 RTE Interview - (February)
• 2004 Granada TV Interviewed by Rachel Gwilliam

In the Media

• 2011 UoP Press Release(http://www.port.ac.uk/aboutus/newsandevents/news/title,131087,en.html)
• 2011The Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/may/08/digital-art-hilary-lloyd)
• 2011Art Info (http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/37635/alexander-mcqueen-show-proves-insta-blockbuster-for-met-john-waters-joins-venice-biennale-prize-jury-and-more-must-read-art-news/)
• 2009 UoP Press Release (http://www.port.ac.uk/aboutus/newsandevents/frontpagenews/title,92028,en.html)
• 2009 BBC News (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7886754.stm)
• 2009 Cordis ICT (http://alturl.com/m9i6)
• 2009 The New Scientist (http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16590-new-software-would-play-any-videogame-ever-created.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news)
• 2009 The Independent (http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/eu-project-aims-to-preserve-old-files-for-posterity-1606787.html)
• 2009 Independent Minds (http://danpinchbeck.livejournal.com/671.html)
• 2009 The Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/4641841/New-computer-will-play-every-video-game.html)
  
• 2009 The Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/feb/12/software-internet)
  
• 2009 ACM Tech News (http://technews.acm.org/archives.cfm?fo=2009-02-feb/feb-11-2009.html)
  
• 2009 The Independent Live Journal (http://danpinchbeck.livejournal.com/671.html)
  
• 2009 Which magazine (http://www.which.co.uk/news/2009/02-feb/digital-vault-to-rescue-space-invaders-168352.jsp)
  
• 2009 IDM magazine, (Australia) (http://www.idm.net.au/story.asp?id=16585)
  
• 2009 Spong online magazine (http://news.spong.com/article/17136/English_Uni_to_Emulate_All_Video_Games?cb=49)
  
• 2009 Computer World (http://www.computerworlduk.com/technology/storage/software/news/index.cfm?newsid=13321)
  
• 2009 Science Daily, (USA) (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090211122410.htm)
  
• 2009 N4G News for Gamers (http://www.n4g.com/dev/NewsCom-276065.aspx?CT=1&Page=1&Page2=1&RID=2049934&RNum=7#CForm)
  
• 2009 Tech Radar (http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/uk-uni-developing-massive-games-emulator-528487)
  
• 2009 Games Asylum (http://www.gamesasylum.com/2009/02/13/games-as-genuine-scientific-news/)
  
• 2009 PC Authority (Australia)
  
• 2009 Slashdot (http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/12/0830230&from=rss)
  
• 2009 Odeo (http://odeo.com/episodes/24072864-UK-University-Making-Universal-Game-Emulator)
  
• 2009 GP32 (http://alturl.com/p6qw)
  
• 2009 Spawn Point (http://alturl.com/kzoj)
  
• 2009 News Tin (http://www.newstin.co.uk/rel/uk/en-010-010636272)
  
• 2009 Manufacturing Computer Solutions (http://www.mcsolutions.co.uk/article/17028/Space-Invaders-to-be-saved-for-future-generations-.aspx)
  
• 2009 Word Press.com (http://prafulkr.wordpress.com/2009/02/14/fresh-start-for-lost-file-formats/)
  
• 2009 The Daily Star (http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/69739/Coming-soon-the-console-that-plays-EVERY-game/)
  
• 2009 Golem (Germany) (http://www.golem.de/0902/65132.html)
  
• 2009 AlphaGalileo (http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=55138&CultureCode=en)
  
• 2009 Tweakers.net (Netherlands) (http://tweakers.net/nieuws/58439/emulator-moet-toegang-tot-verouderde-bestandsformaten-veiligstellen.html)
  
• 2009 Gracz.info (Poland) (http://www.gry-online.pl/S013.asp?ID=45126)
  
• 2009 PC Pro Magazine (http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/247204/scientists-resurrect-classic-digital-content.html)
  
• 2009 The Hindu (http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/008200902171332.htm)
  
• 2009 Tech World (http://www.techworld.com/storage/news/index.cfm?newsid=110782&email)
  
• 2009 Software Picks Network
• 2009 Geek.com (http://www.softpicks.net/blog/02/universal-emulator-for-playing-archaic-games.htm)

On the Blogosphere

• 2009 Techdune
  
• 2009 Maildir.com:
  
• 2009 Webscene:
  
• 2009 Andrewsblog
  
• 2009 Geek.com (Brazil)
  
• 2009 Vogons
  
• 2009 Mame World
  
• 2009 Blog Log
  
• 2009 Video Games Blogger
  
• 2009 Reddit Gaming
  
• 2009 AEP Emulation Page
  
• 2009 Atari Age.com
  
• 2009 Games Play Around
  
• 2009 Sony (Current)
  
• 2009 HCTOR
  
• 2009 Computers Computers
  
• 2009 Brave New World
  
• 2009 NTRA Net
  
• 2009 IT Examiner.com
  
• 2009 Hamara Photos
  
• 2009 Kavandeo
  
• 2009 Bubble Jam
  
• 2009 Sir Arthur's Den
  

 

Professional Service

Editorship:

• Vice Chairman, IFIP Working Group 9.7 (History of Computing)
• Series Editor: IEEE Computer Society, History of Computing Series

Awards, fellowships, memberships etc.:

• Member of the IEEE Computer Society Publications Board
• Member IFIP WG 9.7 History of Computing Committee (Vice Chairman from 2009)
• Founding member of the Executive Committee of the European History of Computing Group
• Member of the Executive Committee of the BCS Computer Conservation Society (CSS) for which I have served as webmaster and meetings co-ordinator
• Member of the Executive Committee of the Association for History and Computing (AHC)
• Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Member of the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Mathematics
• Member of the Institute of Historical Research
• Member of the British Society for the History of Mathematics
• Past Visiting Research Fellow, Christchurch University, NZ

Other:

• Reviewer for numerous conferences and journals including IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
• Webmaster for the BCS Computer Conservation Society (CSS)
• Meetings co-ordinator for the BCS Computer Conservation Society (CSS)
• Co-organiser of the UK History of Computing Research In Progress Workshops