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August 2, 2012 19:04:25
Posted By Peter Bentley
I've been working with Soo Ling Lim recently on a computational model of the App Store. It's partly made possible by my experiences with the app iStethoscope Pro which has produced a lot of fascinating data. The work has just been featured in a magazine called SIGEVO, with the front cover showing one of our viral networks, see below. We're continuing the work by interviewing large numbers of people about their usage of App Stores. Please fill in the survey here and we will use your information to make our model even more accurate: http://tinyurl.com/mobi-user

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Categories: iPhone Apps
 
August 1, 2012 19:04:25
Posted By Peter Bentley
It's not often authors get unequivocally glowing reviews for their books, but I'm very pleased to say that the British Computer Society seems to have written such a review for my new book Digitized. Ten out of ten! I am greatly flattered, many thanks!

BCS review
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Categories: Digitized
 
July 9, 2012 15:58:07
Posted By Peter Bentley
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:

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Categories: TV Radio and public talks
 
June 22, 2012 23:19:23
Posted By Peter Bentley
All this blogging is quite unusual for me! Not long ago I was interviewed by the Encyclopaedia Britannica Blog folks so an article could be produced. It also reviews my recent book Digitized. I quite enjoyed these questions - a little different from the norm. You can read the article here.

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Categories: Digitized
 
June 19, 2012 23:11:05
Posted By Peter Bentley
I was asked a few weeks ago to write an article for the US Oxford's OUPblog. They're running a sequence of entries from authors about Turing to celebrate 100 years since Alan Turing was born. Having written Digitized recently, which includes the stories of many pioneers of computing, not just Turing, I thought it might be fun to illustrate some of the views of Turing's contemporaries. So I wrote this slightly controversial blog entry for them... Enjoy!

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Categories: Digitized