Dave Murray-Rust is a postdoc with the the Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications, in Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. He obtained an MEng in Electrical and Information Systems from Cambridge, an MSc in Informatics from Edinburgh and PhD in Artificial Intelligence and Music from Edinburgh. His work centres around computational systems that model and interact with humans, including modelling of music as a communicative process, tangible and multitouch interfaces and models of human actions on landscapes and their impacts on ecosystems. In addition, he improvises electronic music and carries out interactive artistic projects.