Alistair Edwards
Honorary Research Fellow
Alistair Edwards has retired
If you need to contact him, please email cs-reception@york.ac.uk
Note
Back in the days when the Web was just a little baby, Computer Science was one of the first departments to set up a webspace. In 2022, though, it was decided that having its own space, separate from the University's space is an unnecessary duplication. Pages were, therefore, transferred to that space. I attempted to do this. In so doing I tried to tidy up, to remove a lot of redundant material, but to do so without breaking links. However, I cannot be at all sure that I have suceeded, so if you find any broken links – and particularly any that you need to access, then do feel free to email me.
Speakers for Schools
I give talks to schools under the auspices of the organization Speakers for Schools. Talks I have given, and am expecting to give are:
- Accent the Positive to students from Benton Park School
- Where is the Science in Computer Science? to students at Elliot Husdon College.
- What does ChatGPT understand? to Ossett Academy
Further information on talks I have given, and would like to give, is available.
I've written a paper!
Retired and in lockdown – and free from having to think about REF – I had nothing better to do than to write a paper on a topic that has almost nothing to do with my main research. Testing the November Alfa Tango Oscar Spelling Alphabet It is about the 'spelling alphabet' that people use in radio communications and the like. I don't think it's publishable, because its results are at variance with those in the literature, and anyway no-one is going to diverge from the current Nato standard.
Having mentioned its existence to various family and friends ('What have you been doing in lockdown?'), I suspect it has had more readers than most of my publications. If you can be bothered to look at it, comments will be very welcome.