Yirgacheffe: A Declarative Approach to Geospatial Data / Oct 2025
papersThe path to robust evaluation of carbon credits generated by forest restoration and REDD+ projects / Oct 2025
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Programming for the Planet / Oct 2025
An Architecture for Spatial Networking / Oct 2025
An Architecture for Spatial Networking
Josh Millar, Ryan Gibb, Roy Ang, Hamed Haddadi, and Anil Madhavapeddy.
Working paper at arXiv.
AI-assisted Living Evidence Databases for Conservation Science / Oct 2025
A FAIR Case for a Live Computational Commons / Oct 2025
What if we could hot swap our Biometrics? / Sep 2025
What if we could hot swap our Biometrics?
Jon Crowcroft, Anil Madhavapeddy, Chris Hicks, Richard Mortier, and Vasilios Mavroudis.
Working paper at arXiv.
Nine changes needed to deliver a radical transformation in biodiversity measurement / Sep 2025
Nine changes needed to deliver a radical transformation in biodiversity measurement
Bill Sutherland, Neil Burgess, Scott Edwards, Julia P.G. Jones, Pamela S. Soltis, David Tilman, Julie M. Allen, Herizo T. Andrianandrasana, Tom August, Kamal Bawa, Sallie Bailey, Tanya Birch, Philipp Boersch-Supan, Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Mark Blaxter, Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer, Barnabus H. Daru, Adriana de Palma, Cristina Eisenberg, Chris Elphick, Rob Freckleton, Winifred F. Frick, Andrew Gonzalez, Scott Goetz, Lior Greenspoon, Christina M. Grozinger, Don L. Hankins, Jonny Hazell, Nick J. B. Isaac, Marco Lambertini, Harris A. Lewin, Oisin Mac Aodha, Anil Madhavapeddy, E. J. Milner-Gulland, James P. O'Dwyer, Andy Purvis, Nick Salafsky, Heather Tallis, Iroro Tanshi, Varsha Vijay, Martin Wikelski, David Williams, Hollis Woodard, and Gene E. Robinson.
Working paper at EcoEvoRxiv.
From Data to Decisions: Towards a Biodiversity Monitoring Standards Framework / Sep 2025
From Data to Decisions: Towards a Biodiversity Monitoring Standards Framework
Andrew Gonzalez, Tom August, Sallie Bailey, Kyle Bobiwash, Philipp Boersch-Supan, Neil Burgess, Barnabus H. Daru, Chris Elphick, Rob Freckleton, Winifred F. Frick, Alice C. Hughes, Nick J. B. Isaac, Julia P.G. Jones, Marco Lambertini, Oisin Mac Aodha, Anil Madhavapeddy, E. J. Milner-Gulland, Andy Purvis, Nick Salafsky, Bill Sutherland, Iroro Tanshi, Varsha Vijay, Hollis Woodard, and David Williams.
Working paper at EcoEvoRxiv.
Functional Networking for Millions of Docker Desktops / Aug 2025
Functional Networking for Millions of Docker Desktops
Anil Madhavapeddy, Dave Scott, Patrick Ferris, Ryan Gibb, and Thomas Gazagnaire.
Journal paper in Proceedings of ACM Programming Languages (vol 9 issue ICFP).
Will AI speed up literature reviews or derail them entirely? / Jul 2025
Will AI speed up literature reviews or derail them entirely?
Sam Reynolds, Alec Christie, Lynn Dicks, Sadiq Jaffer, Anil Madhavapeddy, and Bill Sutherland.
Journal paper in Nature (vol 643 issue 8071).
TESSERA: Temporal Embeddings of Surface Spectra for Earth Representation and Analysis / Jul 2025
TESSERA: Temporal Embeddings of Surface Spectra for Earth Representation and Analysis
Frank Feng, Clement Atzberger, Sadiq Jaffer, Jovana Knezevic, Silja Sormunen, Robin Young, Madeline Lisaius, Markus Immitzer, David Coomes, Anil Madhavapeddy, Andrew Blake, and Srinivasan Keshav.
Working paper at arXiv.
Informing Conservation Problems and Actions Using an Indicator of Extinction Risk / Jul 2025
Informing Conservation Problems and Actions Using an Indicator of Extinction Risk
Alison Eyres, Andy Arnell, Richard Cuthbert, Thomas Ball, Michael Dales, Alejandro Guizar-Coutiño, Jody Holland, Emilio Luz-Ricca, Anil Madhavapeddy, Leila Pain, Thomas Swinfield, Thomas White, and Andrew Balmford.
Working paper at SSRN.
Steps towards an ecology of the Internet / Jun 2025
Every ten years, the city of Aarhus throws a giant conference to discuss new agendas for critical action and theory in computing. Back in 2016, Hamed Haddadi, Jon Crowcroft and I posited the idea of personal data stores, a topic that is just now becoming hot due to agentic AI. Well, time flies, and I'm pleased to report that our second dicennial thought experiment on "Steps towards an Ecology for the Internet" will appear at the 2025 edition of Aarhus this August!
This time around, we projected our imaginations forward a decade to imagine an optimistic future for the Internet, when it has exceeded a trillion nodes. After deciding in the pub that this many nodes was too many for us to handle, we turned to our newfound buddies in conservation to get inspiration from nature. We asked Sam Reynolds, Alec Christie, David Coomes and Bill Sutherland first year undergraduate questions about how natural ecosystems operate across all levels of scale: from DNA through to cells through to whole populations. We spent hours discussing the strange correspondences between the seeming chaos in the low-level interactions between cells through to the extraordinary emergent discipline through which biological development typically takes place.
Then, going back to the computer scientists in our group and more widely (like Cyrus Omar who I ran into at Bellairs), it turns out that this fosters some really wild ideas for how the Internet itself could evolve into the future. We could adopti biological process models within the heart of the end-to-end principle that has driven the Internet architecture for decades!
[…623 words]Steps towards an Ecology for the Internet
Anil Madhavapeddy, Sam Reynolds, Alec Christie, David Coomes, Michael Dales, Patrick Ferris, Ryan Gibb, Hamed Haddadi, Sadiq Jaffer, Josh Millar, Cyrus Omar, Bill Sutherland, and Jon Crowcroft.
Paper in the proceedings of the sixth decennial Aarhus conference: Computing X Crisis.
Solving Package Management via Hypergraph Dependency Resolution / Jun 2025
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