Peter’s Media Appearances

 

The work of Peter Bentley has appeared in many magazines, papers, radio shows and TV programmes. Here’s a rather inaccurate list:

• This list has not been maintained for a while... for the most up-to-date look at Peter's media appearances, please check out the TV, radio and public talks section of Peter's Book Blog by clicking here.
• iStethoscope Pro television and radio appearances, magazine and newspaper articles (too many to list).
• The Undercover Scientist/Why Sh*t Happens television and radio appearances, magazine and newspaper articles (too many to list).
• Apple Education promotional film starring me and other members of UCL.
• Royal Insitution cafe scientifiques hosted by me on the third monday of every month at the Royal Institution..
• BBC 4 radio programme "Dear Darwin" recorded by me and broadcast in January 2009. Listen to the 15 minute programme by clicking here.
• GECCO debate on evolution and complexity at the Natural History Museum, organised and chaired by Peter Bentley, with panelists Richard Dawkins, Steve Jones and Lewis Wolpert. 9 July 2007.
• You, Robot? Public debate by Peter Bentley in Cheltenham Town Hall, at the Cheltenham Science Festival, with Lola Cañamero and Mark Miodownik. 8 June 2007.
• Biologically Inspired Computation: algorithms that mimic nature’s tricks. Article by Meredith Kunz in Biomedical Computation Review, Winter 2006/07.
• Natural Defences. Article on AIS project in IET Networks for Engineers. September 2006.
• How our body's defences aid computers in distress. Article on AIS project in New Scientist Tech. 19 May 2006.
• Peter Bentley nominated for $100,000 Edge of Computation Prize. 1 November 2005. Edge.org
• Evolutionary Activity. Can digital biology help to create truly intelligent electronic devices? By David Boothroyd. New Electronics magazine 11 October 2005. Article
• Snakebot at the Tattoo. Exhibit at the Royal International Air Tattoo, August, 2005.
• Evolving Robots.Interview of Peter Bentley by Robyn Williams for ABC National Radio. Robyn Williams visited Peter Bentley's laboratory at University College, London to meet an intelligent robot which Dr Bentley claims demonstrates evolution in action. Broadcast 12:10, 29 January, 2005.
• Evolutionary racing cars. Interview on BBC Radio World Service News, July 2004.
• Evolution of the master racer.Article in Financial Times, July 23, 2004.
• Virtual Car-racing Triumph. Article in Guardian on-line, June 17, 2004.
• Evolution can “breed” winning car. Article in “home of F1.com”, June 17, 2004
• Fast cars could be tuned by evolution. Articlein New Scientist, June 17, 2004.
• New Scientist Feature “Software Seeds”, March 6 2004.
• Evolutionary Design by Computers book reference in best-seller novel “Prey” by Michael Crichton. Published 2003.
• Austrian radio interview "B5-Computermagazin", September 28^th 2003.
• British Council article. , October 2003.
• Complexity Digest ECAL video summary 26 September 2003.
• Leben im Computer? Article in Telepolis, 22 September 2003.
• Is Life the Key to New Tech?, Article on CNN.com, 22 September 2003.
• Robot spy can survive battlefield damage, Article in New Scientist, 20 August 2003.
• Scrödinger's Katt, Norwegian Television. Interview in science magazine show, June 2003.
• Discovery Channel, Canada. Eight-minute piece on Swarm Music featuring interviews with Peter Bentley. Sept. 2002.
• The David Brudnoy Show. 60-minute live studio interview with author Peter Bentley on WBZAM, Boston, USA,16 July 2002.
• Book Review of Digital Biology in Artificial Life: 8, 379-382. 2002.
• Musikalische Schwärmereien aus dem Rechner. Item in “Deutschlandfunk”, DeutschlandRadio, broadcast 28 May 2002.
• The Sound of Swarmusic. London Radio Service item in “New Horizons”, Week 20 (13 May 2002).
• Waiter, there's a fly in my jam. CBC Radio 1 item in As it Happens, broadcast 6 May 2002.
• Insects make a buzz on the music scene. Article in New Scientist, 6 May 2002.
• Sim Nature: A review of digital biology. Article in Grist, 25 April 2002.
• Digital Biology: Working with Nature. Q&A with author Peter Bentley. Article in PC Magazine, 16 April 2002.
• Digital Biology. Book review on Slashdot, March 11 2002.
• 'Digital Biology': Is This Chip Educable? Book review in New York Times, March 10 2002.
• Digital Biology. 60-minute live interview on CNET Radio, Feb. 2002.
• Digital Biology. Interview in nanotech bulletin 22 Feb 2002.
• Cutting Edge feature: Digital Darwinism. Article in Times Higher Education supplement, 1 Feb 2002.
• Inspired by Immunity. Article in Nature, 31 Jan 2002.
• Natural Technology. 30 minute BBC Radio 4 documentary, broadcast in May 2001.
• Creative Evolution. Article in UCL Science 14, 2000.
• Cars and coffee tables! Can computers be creative? Interview with Peter Bentley, article in EvoNews 9, Winter 1999.

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