During the Easter holidays, our programme requires us to undertake a group project with a global company. I’m working on a project with Microsoft, related to innovation in the software industry.

Each year, Microsoft UK publishes a report entitled “Developing the Future”, which looks at the challenges and opportunities facing the UK software development industry. Our project involves working with Microsoft, until the start of next term, to co-author part of this year’s report.

Former US vice-president Al Gore came to Cambridge today to give his talk “An Inconvenient Truth”. The talk was an updated version of his 2006 Oscar winning film regarding human contribution to climate change and the effects of not making changes in our behaviour now. The original film removed any doubt in my mind over the existence of, and man’s responsibility for, global warming yet he was more convincing in person. Al Gore is a surprisingly charismatic performer – a trait he seems to have developed since he left office.