Today the Guardian newspaper in UK published an article on my iphone app iStethoscope Pro. It continues the extraordinary interest shown in this app, which never ceases to surprise me. Something else which surprised me was the photo... why they chose the one with me screwing up my eyes in the sunshine I don't know!

The article can be found online here, and I include a copy of it below.

I recently gave a public talk for the Systematic Exhibition at 176 Zabludowicz Collection, London. It was fascinating to go there and see the pieces - my favourites were The Blind Watchmaker and Reading Glass by Charles Sandison. There was also an early Damien Hirst piece in the same hall that I was speaking. I chatted about complexity and unpredictable systems - things like evolution, development, immune systems and swarms - applied to music, art, engineering and science. A nice audience turned out to hear me. I think they may put the talk online sometime in the future on their website.

Not long ago I attended the unveiling of a new painting for the 7th floor of the Computer Science Building of UCL. The painter is Nigel Swift who also works in the technical support group. I chatted to him afterwards and to my surprise he said that several of the themes in the painting derive from projects by my students. The mosaic comes from Udi Schlessinger's Moisaic World, the swarm from Tim Blackwell's Swam Music and the biological windows were inspired by some of our biological models such as Fugue, the immersive model of the immune system with Gordana Novakovic.

I was honoured to be nominated by UCL recently for a "Lord Kelvin Award" to give a special lecture at the British Science Festival next September. I just heard that I was the runner-up candidate, so that's not too bad!

You were recently nominated to present the British Science Association Lord Kelvin and Joseph Lister Award Lecture at the British Science Festival in September.

The committee was very impressed with the nomination and you were named as runner up in the Lord Kelvin (Physical Sciences and Mathematics) and Joseph Lister (Social Sciences) Award Lecture category. I hope that you will be happy with this and that we will see you nominated again in the future.

Last night a friend told me I was on the radio. Turns out it was the second episode of the BBC Radio 4 documentary "Robowars" for which I had been interviewed some time ago. I feature in the programme twice, once about 12 minutes in and second about 23 minutes in. They edited my words a little bit so I'm taken slightly out of context (I was mainly referring to quite hi-tech AI systems that may only appear in the future). However I think it's an interesting debate: if people are stupid enough to start wars, should we use robots rather than people?

You can listen to the mp3 file here.