The UK’s Museum of Computing has secured new premises situated in Swindon’s town centre. Thanks to a 3 year lease donated by Swindon Borough Council, the museum is due to re-open in July. Read more about the Museum of Computing reopening on Culture24 or their own press release for more background on the museum. Friday 23rd [...]
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Making People Believe text now online
Back in April, I blogged about a new article on archaeological computing written by myself and two colleagues. It is entitled “Making People Believe” and appeared in the 100th edition of the Council for British Archaeology‘s British Archaeology magazine. I am happy to announce that the full text of Making People Believe is now online [...]
Making People Believe – Article in British Archaeology Magazine
The 100th edition of British Archaeology magazine contains a feature article co-written by myself, Leif Isaksen, and Paul Cripps. I am lucky (or unlucky?!) to grace the front cover (that’s me, bottom left next to the giant flint). The article, entitled “Making People Believe” is about the state of archaeological computing today, where it has [...]
Script Error
The Sherborne Missal has had a script error. Oh the irony… The Sherborne Missal is a 15th century illuminated manuscript, and the virtual version is available to browse on a large touch screen in the foyer of the British Library. It allows you to ‘turn’ the pages with your hands, as you would a real [...]
Archaeoptics – 3D Laser Scanning
I have been involved with the redesign of the Archaeoptics website, where you can catch up on the latest high-tech developments and projects in the world of 3D laser scanning in archaeology. Archaeoptics have worked on some incredible projects, producing accurate 3D models of everything from tiny prehistoric flint arrowheads to entire stone circles such [...]
Weblog Editors: MarsEdit 1.0
I am currently testing the use of MarsEdit, by those clever folks at http://www.ranchero.com. It’s Mac only, and very well designed. It allows you to easily post to your blog, but is still rather clunky in that images have to be uploaded, then an HTML string inserted into your post. Other than editing it by [...]
Spring 2005 CSA Newsletter
The new Computer Technologies for Archaeologists & Architectural Historians newsletter from the Centre for the Study of Architecture/Archaeology (CSA) is now online. The US-based newsletter provides articles on current developments in archaeological computing.
