Alan
Blackwell

New book: Moral Codes



Pre-Covid blog: AI in Africa

Affiliations

• University of Cambridge
• Computer Laboratory
• Cambridge Global Challenges
• Crucible Network
• Darwin College

Contact details

• [email protected]
• University of Cambridge
  Computer Laboratory
  William Gates Building
  15 J J Thomson Avenue
  Cambridge CB3 0FD
  United Kingdom
• Phone: +44 1223 334418
• Fax: +44 1223 334678
• Travel Advice

Research (all publications)

• Visual Representation (publications)
• End-User Development (publications)
• Interdisciplinary Design (publications)
• Tangible, Augmented and Embodied Interaction (publications)
• Psychology of Programming (publications)
• Computer Music (publications)
• Critical Theory (publications)

Teaching

• Further Human-Computer Interaction
• Group Design Projects and projects under development
• Practical Research in Human-Centred AI (for ACS)
  Practical Research in Human-Centred AI (for Part II)
• Theories of Socio-digital Design for Human-Centred AI
• Courses not currently offered:
  Usability of Programming Languages
  Computer Music
  Critical Coding
  Digital Humanities Guided Project
  Humanities Computing for languages
  Interdisciplinary Design for the Built Environment
  Software and Interface Design
  Human-Computer Interaction

Boards and committees

• Cambridge Philosophical Society Council
• Cambridge Digital Humanities
• StoryLab, Anglia Ruskin University Board
• Cambridge Technology Ethics
• Previously:
  Centre for Creativity in Professional Practice Board
  Cambridge Enterprise Board
  Centre for Global Equality Board
  DCMS Living East Board

Applying to work with me

• PhD applications, jobs and visiting posts
• Internships (applying from Cambridge)
• Internships (applying from elsewhere)

Conferences and Editorial Boards

• ACM Transactions on CHI
• Interdisciplinary Science Reviews
• Historic:
  IEEE Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (chair 2016)
  BCS HCI (chair 2009)
  DRHA (co-chair 2008)
  ACM CHI (co-chair 2007)
  Diagrams (chair 2004)
  Psychology of Programming Interest Group (co-chair 2000)
  J. Visual Languages & Computing
  Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling

Excluded middles

• Other activities
• My NetBoard
• My old home page (nostalgia - designed before the millenium, before CSS, before Comic Sans backlash!)
• My Rococo sort algorithm
• Hobbies
• (Out of date) Biography