A selected list of mentions in national and international press…

2023

• China Social Science Today, 30th January 2023. 文化包容引领数字人文发展 (Cultural Inclusion Leads the Development of Digital Humanities)
• Christian Science Monitor, 11th January 2023. How a ‘headstrong historian’ is rewriting Kenya’s colonial history.

2022

• The Observer, 15th May 2022. Famous rallying speech by feminist leader Millicent Fawcett was never made, says new book
• Ancient Origins, 13th March 2022. Can Artificial Intelligence Unlock Secrets of the Ancients?
• Guardian, 9th March 2022. AI could decipher gaps in ancient Greek texts, say researchers.

2021

• Raconteur, 21st October 2021. Could AI help us create imagination machines?
• Fife Today, 4th Feb 2021. Artificial intelligence transcribes historic diaries of child prodigy, Pet Marjorie.
• Varese News, 18th January 2021. Padre Busa da Gallarate, il gesuita che inventò i link (e anticipò il web).

2020

• Wired, 24th December 2020. We asked an AI to write the Queen’s Christmas speech.
• Gizmodo, October 12th 2020. Can AI-Generated Text Be Funny?
• Heritage Fund, 27th October 2020. Mapping Scotland’s accused witches through Open Data.
• Chortle, August 2020. If computers made Edinburgh Fringe shows.
• The Stage, August 5th 2020. AI system to create imaginary Edinburgh Fringe show descriptions.

2019

• Gizmodo, October 21st 2019. What Will the Internet Look Like in 2030?

2018

• StateMagazine, 7th December 2018. How Digital Scanners Enabled a New Era of Document Management.
• Scotsman, 14th November 2018. How data is powering Edinburgh’s creative industries.
• Guardian, 23rd October 2018. Jumpin’ jets, a woman! Call to update children’s books with female academics.
• Times Higher Education, 17th October 2018. Depiction of academics in children’s books paints poor picture.
• Times Higher Education, August 23rd 2018. Hasty’ funding calls ‘prejudiced against women and carers.
• Smithsonian, January 25th 2018, We’re One Step Closer to Non-Invasively Reading Ancient Papyri Hidden in Mummy Masks
• Live Science, January 5th 2018. Cutting-Edge Camera Deciphers Messages Written on Mummy Wrappings.

2017

• HyperAllergic, 7th December 2017, Skeleton of 18th-Century Philosopher Jeremy Bentham Will Travel to the Metropolitan Museum
• Times Higher Education, June 29th 2017. Appointments.
• Chronicle of Higher Education, June 9th 2017. From Indiana Jones to Minerva McGonagall, Professors See Themselves in Fiction.
• Times Higher Education, 5th January 2017, Letters to the Editor.

2016

• Guardian, 22nd September 2016. Scientists use ‘virtual unwrapping’ to read ancient biblical scroll reduced to ‘lump of charcoal’.
• LA Review of Books, April 24th 2016. The Digital in the Humanities: An Interview with Laura Mandell
• HyperAllergic, March 25th 2016. The Webcam of an 18th-Century Philosopher’s Skeleton.

2015

• Quartz, September 10th, 2015. Authors are turning Twitter into a literary genre, 140 characters at a time.
• Guardian, 23rd July 2015. What does the panopticon mean in the age of digital surveillance?
• The Observer, 5th July 2015. Not fade away… how robots are preserving our old newspapers.
• Gizmodo, March 16th 2015. The Corpse of the Panopticon Creator Now Has an All-Seeing Eye.

2013

• Guardian, December 25th 2013. Slade art school puts old class pictures online to find past pupils.
• The Atlantic, October 2013. Computing Power Used to Be Measured in ‘Kilo-Girls’The earliest computers were human. And, more often than not, female.
• Financial Times, June 15th 2013. Big data meets the Bard. A ‘literary lab’ that believes reading with computers is the future
• Wired, 25th January 2013. Big data and the death of the theorist.