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I recently received our new TV licence, and with the New Year schedules kicking off it seemed like a good time to dust off my Margate souvenir television savings box and start popping in a pound or two each time something from the BBC felt like money well spent. I thought it would be interesting [...]

Last year I pulled together the proposal for a collaborative project between BBC Research and Development and MetaBroadcast which won funding from the Technology Strategy Board. The Automatic Broadcast Content Interlinking Project (ABC-IP for short) is developing advanced text processing techniques to link together incomplete sources of metadata around large video and audio collections. The aim is [...]

I’ve been working on a project for BBC Research and Development to develop multi-touch devices and applications that investigate how the technology could support television viewing in the future. We’ve written a series of blog posts about the work which are going up over the next few weeks. You can read the first of these [...]