Below I mentioned that my systemic computer was featured in a New Scientist article. Since then, the work has been picked up worldwide and has appeared in many surprising places. Many thanks for the interest! Some of the other articles have included, erm... some interesting claims. Just to clarify: the systemic computer can repair its damaged code. It is not a PC, although it has been simulated by a PC and a Mac. It is not a new operating system, it is an entirely new computer architecture which runs code on bare metal (no operating system). The FPGA is not a resource manager - we used it to implement the entire computer plus a conventional co-processor. It does not use Chaos Theory. It does not detect overheating. It does not run Ms Windows or Max OS X or any operating system. Oh, and it's not Skynet. Not yet anyway!

Here are just a few of the other articles about the work. I got to page 10 in Google and gave up. I know there are many, many more out there. Thanks for going to so much trouble, folks.

Wired.co.uk No more blue screen of death with crash-proof computer

Wall Street Journal tech blog The Self-Repairing Computer That Never Crashes

Phys.org Researchers build self-repairing "systemic" computer (Also reported in eScience News, feedstory.net)

ZeeNews Now a Computer that Heals Itself(Also in The Times of India, truthdive.com, aninews.com, RupeeRains News, penmai.com, socialmediablazer.com)

pcworld.com Crash-proof computer tactic revealed by UK researchers (also reproduced in computerworld.co.nz)

pcpro.com Crash-proof computer created by London researchers

Hexus.net The "systemic computer" that repairs itself and never crashes

Slashgear.com Systemic computer can rebuild corrupted data and never crashes (also reproduced in techinvestornews.com)

digitaltrends.com Scientists design crash-proof computer based on nature’s chaos

extremetech.com Researchers create crash- proof, self-repairing, inspired-by-nature computer

kitguru.net How to build a PC that never crashes

venturebeat.com Scientists invent a self-repairing computer that will never crash (also in ebests.com, gamespasm.com)

techspot.com Scientists develop computer that never crashes

ubergizmo.com Computer That Never Crashes Mimics Biology

gizmodo.com Scientists Claim They’ve Built a Computer That Never Crashes

IT News Today Found a way to rid computer of lockups and crashes

We've been working on my systemic computer for several years but it's only now that we have a working hardware version, thanks to my talented EngD student Christos Sakellariou.

The computer is a result of more than a decade of research into modelling natural processes using conventional computers (processes such as evolution, brains, ecosystems, etc). The models were usually very slow and I realised that our conventional computers have a very different way of processing information compared to all natural systems. For example, our brain has billions of neurons, many of which can fire at the same time. This means information is processed in parallel, distributed across the whole brain. In conventional computers, only one (or very few) instructions are followed at the same time, memory is centralised, and so although they do things very fast, they are still very slow compared to our brains. The other problem is failure - a centralised architecture will fail as soon as one component fails. In our brain we lose neurons every day but we're fine - our brains have the redundancy to cope and the ability to reconfigure themselves to make use of what is left. So I decided I wanted to build a computer that worked more like a brain. The result is the systemic computer. It processes information in parallel and it can reconfigure itself if it gets damaged.

We're still working on it, and you can read more about the systemic computer here. However, we're very pleased to have a lead technology story in New Scientist today! Not only that, but the story was the most read on the New Scientist website . Thanks to Paul Marks for the article.

I was lucky enough to be invited to speak at TEDxBermuda in October. It was a very interesting experience, with other speakers including John Sculley of Pepsi and Apple fame. I was the first speaker, and as I joked at the time, if anything was likely to go wrong, it would happen to me... And of course it did - my videos were accidentally shuffled by the tech people with the result that most would no longer play. I was forced to improvise - luckily I can be quite quick on my feet. The bonus was that I've never had so many compliments for a talk afterwards! The video is now available online (and has been edited to put back the videos that were missing on the day). Both before and after the event we were treated to nice receptions and dinners so all in all it was a great time. My thanks again to the organisers for inviting me. You can see the video here.

My new book Digitized continues to gain nice reviews in the media and I've recently been informed that we've made a bestseller list in USA, as reported by Library Journal Reviews. We may not be able to beat the book on Steve Jobs, but I'm happy being at number 5 nevertheless!

On Sunday 3 June I participated in the first TEDxUCL event. There were a range of talks on a diverse variety of topics. I was allocated one of the longest slots and made use of the time to talk about some of the ideas in my research I've been developing for some years. During the first part of the talk I also performed a rather physical demonstration of the brittleness of current technology by hammering a nail through a laptop. The gasps of the audience were quite amusing.

The video has now been made available so you can watch the full talk here. I called it The Sound of Numbers Crunching.

You can also see a range of photos from the event online here.

The twitter response was so funny - particularly when I hammered a nail through a laptop live on stage - that I took a few snapshots of it, below: