Ben Swift
PhD Convenor at ANU School of Cybernetics
Canberra, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Swift is a research-driven creative technologist and academic leader with 11 years of experience bridging computer science, art, and education at the Australian National University, where he currently serves as PhD Convenor and Senior Lecturer. He leads the Cybernetic Studio, combining hands-on software development with interdisciplinary research and curriculum design across the ANU School of Cybernetics. An active open-source contributor, Ben has been a full-stack developer on the Extempore cyber-physical programming environment, adding language features, tutorials, and test infrastructure that support live coding and interactive media. His background—PhD in Computer Science and a BSc (Hons) in Mathematics and Computer Science—underpins work that spans formal research, creative practice, and practical tooling. Based in Canberra, he also maintains collaborative ties with CSIRO/Data61, reflecting a knack for translating academic ideas into usable systems and playful technical futures.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Australian National University
Stackoverflow
853reputation
22kreached
4answers
19questions
Github Skills (23)
programming-language10
c-language10
llvm10
cprogramming-language10
macos8
linux8
windows8
opengl8
graphics-programming7
shader7
code-formatting7
arm6
elisp6
cyberduck6
x116
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
digego/extempore
Jan 2015 - Feb 2022
A cyber-physical programming environment
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 2280 commits, 57 PRs in 7 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributes to the development of the Extempore programming environment, making changes related to language syntax, code formatting, and library bindings. Their work includes adding new features, such as shader tutorials and a common lisp music-style example. They also address bugs and contribute to setting up test infrastructure, showing a broad involvement across different aspects of the project.
cybercyber-physicalphysicalprogramming-environment
extemporelang/extemporelang.github.io
Nov 2017 - Nov 2022
Extempore docs website
Contributions:232 commits, 19 PRs, 121 pushes in 5 years 1 month
jekyll
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