{"id":5801,"date":"2014-06-01T12:39:19","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T11:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/?p=5801"},"modified":"2017-01-06T11:33:47","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T10:33:47","slug":"professor-patrick-purcell-1995","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/professor-patrick-purcell-1995\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Patrick Purcell: 1995"},"content":{"rendered":"

Professor Patrick Purcell<\/a> (1929-2007) was described in his Times obituary as “Pioneer of computing and design<\/strong>“. As far as I know, this is the only interview made with Patrick, whom I got to know during his time as visiting professor of human computer interaction at Imperial College London. I had actually known him prior to that via LIVE-NET<\/a> Video Conference from Northern Ireland linking through to Imperial.<\/p>\n

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A Video Interface recording 1995<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Until his death, he worked along side Professor Bob Spence<\/a>, who commented after Patrick’s death “…when I realised that Patrick Purcell was approaching retirement from his appointment in Northern Ireland I immediately suggested to the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering<\/a> of Imperial that he be invited to be a Visiting Professor. A very selfish act, no doubt, but one I have never regretted…”<\/p>\n

At my suggestion, this interview was recorded for an outside company called Lantec and was in the occasional series called Video Interface<\/a>. Because of Patrick’s depth of knowledge of all things ‘digital’, this was the obvious first question posed to him at the start of the interview by Steve Bell<\/a>. It was recorded in the Imperial College TV Studio in June 1995.[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Vg0PhTMEihw ]<\/p>\n

Colin Grimshaw June 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pioneer of computing and design: Professor Patrick Purcell (1929-2007) was an Irish-born academic and researcher in social computing, the application of digital media and human computer interfaces. This 1995 interview with him is only one I know of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,81],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-5801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","category-research","tag-electrical-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5801"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7149,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5801\/revisions\/7149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}