David's personal research is at the intersection of music, maths, machines and AI, empowering the creative human in music composition and performance. From an early background in electronics and computer science, David became closely involved in the Hypertext, Web, and computational research communities, in pervasive computing, and in digital social research. His broad range of interdisciplinary research has investigated emerging technologies in large scale distributed and sociotechnical systems, with an interest in society, technology and creativity, while also focusing on innovation in the process of scholarship. Today he focuses on new methods of digital scholarship, innovation in knowledge infrastructure, and living in the Internet of Things.