Informatics residency

I'm delighted to announce that the Take Tea With Turing anthology app is now available as a free download via the iTune app store. Download TTWT app from iTunes app store   Those of you without your own iPhone or iPad will have to beg or borrow (ViccyIsWriting does not officially endorse stealing) friends/family/colleagues' devices … Continue reading Take Tea With Turing anthology app AVAILABLE NOW for free download

Exciting news- we have a date for the launch of Take Tea With Turing: an anthology of creative work inspired by the life and legacy of Alan Turing. The launch will be on Friday 23 November, at Inspace in Edinburgh. Further details to follow. Details of the contributors to the anthology are now up online, along with … Continue reading update: Take Tea With Turing

The sun is back in Edinburgh; today I enjoyed some unexplained opera singing from the BBC garden outside the office window. Then I met science fiction writer Hannu Rajaniemi for a cuppa and a chat about how stories-within-stories can be compared to mathematics. Hannu (along with Samuel Halliday) has just been awarded an Alt-w production … Continue reading Informatics: unexpected opera

Yesterday I came in to catch up on some work and to see how the Forum feels on a Sunday, out of term time. the answer was quiet, but not empty or dark at any point. There were only a few offices with people visible in them, but I still heard the lift announcing that … Continue reading Informatics: compiling snippets

Drum soundchecks on the BBC stage outside the office window. One of my office-mates almost gave me a heartattack- I was deep in the middle of writing, with Fat Boy Slim blaring out of my headphone when she tapped me on the shoulder to ask if I minded if she shut the window. Don’t think … Continue reading Informatics: drums, drums in the deep…

Continuing with yesterday’s newly minted tradition, this morning I met with Pippa Goldschmidt, who has been writer-in-residence at the Genomics Forum for the last four years. Over tea on the roof garden (lucky with the sunshine again) we talked about science, scientists and writing, and how the term ‘writer-in-residence’ covers about as broad a spectrum … Continue reading Informatics: writing traditions

This morning I had the pleasure of meeting up with Nicola White, who found me through this blog when googling to see what other Leverhulme Artists in Residence have been up to. Nicola started as the Leverhulme Trust writer in residence at the school of Nursing Studies, University of Edinburgh in March. She came across … Continue reading Informatics: nursing thoughts

Would you like to have a go at an engaging online creative writing exercise, while possibly making a contribution to research in writing tools development? The School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, is conducting an online experiment investigating the use of cutting edge computer speech on the creative writing process. All you need is a computer connected to the internet. Just visit … Continue reading Informatics: Creative Writing Research

Alan Turing is considered by many to be the father of modern computing; the ‘Turing Test’ is still used as a marker for comparing machine and human intelligence. Turing’s work in mathematics, logic, cryptography, morphogenesis and computer science continues to inform contemporary research in these fields. However, Turing was also prosecuted for being homosexual, underwent chemical castration, … Continue reading Informatics: Take Tea With Turing call for submissions