Richard Banks
Designer, Creator, Artist and Technologist based in the United Kingdom
A really fascinating, but a bit technical, "archaeology" of the practice of machine learning, both by ML creators, and about the systems they create.
It's a swashbuckling tale of derring-do and potential self-promotion.
You never know. You may be the first one who likes it other than me.
About Me
I'm a Principal Design Manager for Microsoft Research in their lab in Cambridge, UK. I focus on the issues and opportunities raised by artificial intelligence for people. I'm currently working on Project Alexandria, an AI system for making knowledge useful at work.


 


I'm the author of “The Future of Looking Back”, a book which focuses on new digital legacies and their potential impact on memory and reminiscing. I've been involved in over 40 academic papers on this and other subjects.


 


I'm honorary Professor of Design at the University of Dundee, hold an Honorary Doctorate from City University, am a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and holder of 44 patents in a broad range of technology areas.
OTher Bits
Design and Creativity
I don't see a real separation between work and home. I don't mean that I have a problem with my work/life balance. It's actually pretty good. I just see the process of design, and the boundaries of creativity, as something that crosses both my personal and professional lives.

Maybe because of this I'm the initator of random skills. Making things in one aspect of my life helps me make things in the other. Designers are all about making. In addition to the painting and photography at the top of the page, I keep on starting new, small hobbies. Like these.
A tiny world I made
at 1:140 scale
A random dog generator and other bits of code
Some instructions for
making a woodblock print 
A growing, and slightly obsessive, collection of modular synthesizers
Copyright Richard Banks, 2020