The Nonconformist
When my youngest was five years old and had been attending school for just over a year, she asked me:
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Learning to plaster
[Original artwork ©Jasmine Stalker-Firth] One of my favourite parts about being a computer scientist is shadowing people and asking questions
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The uncanny valley
Last weekend I watched The Irishman, (2019), Martin Scorsese’s film about hit man Frank Sheeran looking back at his life
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Blogs about Ruth
I set up this blog in 2007 as I wanted to write about the things which excited me about human-computer interaction. When people ask me what I write about, I invariably say technology. Often I say that I write about the stories we tell around technology, as lots of technological invention is based on desire and our very human love of a good success story. However, many of the blogs on here are about me.
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