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Welcome to my website. Please feel free to browse at your will, using the menu on your left. The main page below is home to my (long neglected) weblog for those of you that are bored enough to take an interest in what's going on in my life :-). I'm currently a Principal Scientist at Adobe, working on the architecture for asset management and collaboration in Creative Cloud. Prior to this, I was the lead developer for Creative Cloud Libraries - a revolutionary new way of sharing creative content between different applications, devices, and people. I previously helped to develop Adobe Scout, which was a visual profiler for Flash and AIR applications. Prior to this, I was a researcher in the Language Based Technology group at the Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen. I was part of the MT-LAB project, which is a collaboration between DTU, Aalborg University, and ITU, investigating formal verification techniques for advanced software systems. My particular research was concerned with probabilistic and stochastic analysis of distributed systems. I did my PhD in the Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh, supervised by Professor Jane Hillston. Previously, I studied at Robinson College, Cambridge. I originate from Bridlington, a little sea-side town on the Yorkshire coast. In the summer of 2005, I was a Senior Technical Associate at Fraser Research, in Princeton, New Jersey. Non-academically, I've been studying Japanese since January 2006, and I have been playing the fascinating game of Go since September 2006. I was previously the president of the Edinburgh University Go Club, and was a member of the Japan-UK 150 sub-committee for Scotland. My current grade is around 3kyu. Other than that, there's not much else to say. Feel free to enjoy the site! 楽しんでください！ Michael Smith

Saturday 01/05/04 @ 05:33 pm

Friday nights...

We really should learn from experience by now, but Friday night is not the best for going out in Cambridge. After having a curry, Sarah, Matt, Nick, Andrew and myself headed down to river bar, which we promptly found to be incredibly busy. So, we headed to a place called Ishca, which was quite nice, but even more expensive than river bar! After having one (expensive) cocktail, we tried to find a relatively quiet pub to go to, of which there were none. We ended up wandering over to Parker's Piece, so we thought that we may as well try out the University Arms. However, it was decided not to gatecrash another wedding reception, so that put pain to that idea.

So it was that we gave up, and went home. Andrew and Sarah got a taxi, while Nick, Matt and I set off walking. We saw Ruth and David, and stopped for a little chat, then Matt decided he would race us across Parker's Piece. This turned into a homeward-run, although I gave up just before getting to the Mill Road railway bridge - I'm not as fit as I should be...

When we were all back home, Naomi came round with a quiz for us to do. Of course, Matt and Sarah were considerably better than me, Andrew and Nick, especially when my team-mates deserted me during the sports round to go and make cocktails.

Anyway, today I got up somewhat later than I should have, and have done pretty much nothing other than going to Tesco. I'm going to the East India Club tonight with Matt and Andrew (who is a member), which should be quite an interesting experience.

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