Swan(sea) Song – personal research during my six years at Swansea ... and beyond,

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Talk at the Computational Foundry, Swansea University, 24th April 2024. https://alandix.com/academic/talks/Swansea-song-April-2024/ This talk was my last formal act as Director of the Computational Foundry, before retiring from Swansea University at the end of April 2024. It was the last part in a research afternoon of the School of Mathematics and Computer Science, during which there were talks by other members of the school including a wonderful potted history of Maths and CS in the University and the Computational Foundry by John Tucker and Matt Jones. This talk is a summary (partial) of more personal research through my time at Swansea, some in collaboration with others across the university, some with those external to Swansea, and some more individual. The talk used a number of web-based prototypes and systems that I've developed, many as weekend projects, to look at areas including AI, digital humanities and heritage, qualitative-quantitative reasoning, statistics and maths education, physical prototyping and UX tools. The talk included work inspired by teaching, consultancy and other real-world problems, but almost always also including a strong theoretical dimension. This reflects my personal background, as the son of a carpenter, but where mathematics was my academic 'first love' -- always seeking out ways in which practical making and fundamental knowledge interact. A theme that runs through many of the examples is the way in which many if the things that were completed while at Swansea had roots before, and also things I started here will continue on the future. And now I look forward to the coming years; although my employment at Swansea has ended, I will continue to collaborate with many in the University, both those I have met since being in Swansea and those I know before.

Swan(sea) Song
personal research during
my six years at Swansea … and
beyond
Alan Dix
School Research Day – April 2024

pre-history ~ late 2017
consultancy →
long-term interaction paper @ AVI 2020
public understanding of
news and debate and seeds of
qualitative–quantitative
reasoning
teaching
UI prototyping

early days
deep digitality … alternative
→ digital thinking
final-year research
projects workshop

Covid
lots of angst …
but crazily productive

Steve Lawrance

getting physical
PhysPro
to

digital heritage and
humanities
Troedrhiwfuwch

difficult years …
Christmas
project
2021

AI
regret
… another 20 year
story

numbers and data

THANK YOU

next six years … 2030
?

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Tracing the root cause of a performance issue requires a lot of patience, experience, and focus. It’s so hard that we sometimes attempt to guess by trying out tentative fixes, but that usually results in frustration, messy code, and a considerable waste of time and money. This talk explains how to correctly zoom in on a performance bottleneck using three levels of profiling: distributed tracing, metrics, and method profiling. After we learn to read the JVM profiler output as a flame graph, we explore a series of bottlenecks typical for backend systems, like connection/thread pool starvation, invisible aspects, blocking code, hot CPU methods, lock contention, and Virtual Thread pinning, and we learn to trace them even if they occur in library code you are not familiar with. Attend this talk and prepare for the performance issues that will eventually hit any successful system. About authorWith two decades of experience, Victor is a Java Champion working as a trainer for top companies in Europe. Five thousands developers in 120 companies attended his workshops, so he gets to debate every week the challenges that various projects struggle with. In return, Victor summarizes key points from these workshops in conference talks and online meetups for the European Software Crafters, the world’s largest developer community around architecture, refactoring, and testing. Discover how Victor can help you on victorrentea.ro : company training catalog, consultancy and YouTube playlists.

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1. Swan(sea) Song personal research during my six years at Swansea … and beyond Alan Dix School Research Day – April 2024

2. pre-history ~ late 2017 consultancy → long-term interaction paper @ AVI 2020 public understanding of news and debate and seeds of qualitative–quantitative reasoning teaching UI prototyping

3. early days deep digitality … alternative → digital thinking final-year research projects workshop

4. Covid lots of angst … but crazily productive

5. Steve Lawrance

6. getting physical PhysPro to

7. digital heritage and humanities Troedrhiwfuwch

8. difficult years … Christmas project 2021

9. AI regret … another 20 year story

10. numbers and data

12. next six years … 2030 ?

Notas do Editor

https://datatodata.com/builder/ https://datatodata.com/calq/
https://magisoft.co.uk/alan/misc/game/game.html
https://alandix.com/labs/physproto/ https://hcibook.net/gen/PhysProto/v0/rockall https://hcibook.net/incontext/ https://alandix.com/labs/scenario-viewer/ https://hcibook.net/experimental/scenario-viewer/demo/internet-fridge/ https://hcibook.net/experimental/scenario-viewer/demo/internet-fridge-2/ https://physicality.org/TouchIT/
https://alandix.com/labs/talkover/ https://datatodata.org/talkover/demo/v001/ https://intermuse.datatodata.org/ https://alandix.com/labs/ocr-markup/ https://datatodata.com/intermuse/experimental/ocrmarkup/ https://datatodata.com/intermuse/ocrmarkup/demo/v001/#ocrmarkup
https://alandix.com/labs/
https://alandix.com/labs/ws2/ https://hcibook.net/test-workspace/basic-income/