Thoughts on my first paper

Well, that wasn’t toooo hard. After 3 years at university of being told I was unable to write in a sufficiently academic style and insisting on stooping to pop science this comes as rather a pleasant surprise. It would be nice to believe I had “cracked it” but I suspect that it had rather a [...]

What makes a good presentation?

Firstly, I would say it is critical to remember that “to present”  is not an intransitive verb .  There is a an object to whom it is directed – i.e. you (and I don’t mean the audience in general). What I’m saying is that a presentation can be fascinating or boring because of your interest [...]

Online Publications Again – Free to read?

Another huge issue for me has been whether a paper is available to read for free on the Internet or via one of the university’s subscriptions.   I find it baffling that the university is not subscribed to more journals (e.g. the IEEE ones which are very common in my field) but I barely need to [...]

My Peer Community

I am commenting on here on journals and conferences which are most relevant to my interests. Currently the journals I see most papers from are the Adaptive Systems journal and the Artificial Life journal . There also seem to be a lot of relevant papers published in conference proceedings e.g. the Alife conference which is [...]

Where’s (the) Wally

BTW there is a picture of me hidden in the header bar – see if you can spot it!