Retiring today!
Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Today is my last day at Cardiff Met. I won't be idle; "Introduction to AI" is due out in June and other books in the way, but it is a change of pace and focus. To mark my retirement and turning 65 I am running 65 miles in a week in July in aid of Cancer Research UK. Continue reading → .. read more..

Infant intimations of infinite regress
Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Can chance childhood thoughts shape the whole life? Maybe a lifetime studying the nuanced complexity of humanity alongside the elusive simplicity of mathematics comes down to The Woodentops. Continue reading → .. read more..

Query-by-Browsing has user explanations
Thursday, March 20, 2025

Query-by-Browsing now has 'user explanations', so that users can say what is important in examples. This version is released to coincide with our paper on user explanations to AI at AXAI 2025. Continue reading → .. read more..

AI Book glossary complete!
Tuesday, March 18, 2025

The AI glossary is complete -1229 entries in all, ready for the publication of the AI book in June. This a resource in its own right and interlinks with the book as hybrid digital/physical media. Find more about the glossary and how it was made. Continue reading → .. read more..

Query-by-Browsing gets local explanations
Saturday, March 8, 2025

Query-by-Browsing now includes local explanations so that you can explore in detail how the AI generated query relates to dataset items. Continue reading → .. read more..