Each programme here investigates a research question requiring an extended investigation. These represent months or years of work, typically in collaboration with others.
- We address the biggest problems in using AI with a new method to avoid inaccuracies and errors. Drawing on centuries of experience building organisations around potentially unreliable humans, we construct artificial organisations around definitely unreliable AIs.
- Discovering Epidemiology is a 2026 paper introducing the new and enormous field of One Health. One Health requires participation of scholars and scientists far outwith medicine, and yet is not well explained despite requiring participation from ecologists, vets, computer scientists, anthropologists, historians, social scientists and more. This paper proposes one way of increasing understanding and engagement.
- Rule-based Epidemic Modelling and Malaria — Using rule-based techniques instead of differential equations to model malaria in sub-Saharan Africa, the paper investigates whether asymptomatic HbAS carriers introduce a testing bias sufficient to affect epidemic suppression. A collaboration with the UK MRC-funded RBEM project.
- In 2026 the Active Heat Exchanger (AHE) research programme has advanced considerably from its founding in 2022. Initially an engineering development project, we found an engineering research question and then a health research question. We address the problem of houses making their occupants sick, but we also solve difficult data problems highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Not Before Time is my project since 2018 or so where I track whether applied cryptography software is currently up to the task of implementing the idea of connecting time to information as reliably as GPS connects position to location. I keep experimenting with systems from encryption researchers and the blockchain companies, knowing the hard bit is in governance design and matching it to human needs. As of 2025 the required software is implemented in production and I am exploring the novel and commercial uses of it.
- A very long time ago, I produced the first practical methodology to guide organisations in escaping proprietary and US software dependencies. This general approach still applies today, when there now global interest in this topic.
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