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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！
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Friday 22/04/05 @ 02:31 pm
Taural is alive! (but where's Dean?)
Just found out that Carl has been updating his LiveJournal, so may you all bask in his wisdom. Nice to see the name Taural still in use, after the little one-off I ran last Easter :-). Alex has also been nagging me for a rant-space on this site, which I will create for her as soon as I have time to rejig things, and make a nice easy-to-use interface for her. So what out for Agony Alex, coming soon to your screens!
That all said and done, I shall return to frantic dissertation-writing. I'll have to start packing later on today, as I'm heading back down to Cambridge tomorrow for the final term as an undergrad! I feel sad about that, but I'm sure whereever I end up next year will be great, and I won't be too far away to travel down and impose myself on Andrew et al (though maybe I'm safer staying away, if the cocktail-making gets going again ;-)...
Alex the Quizmaster -- spider29378@hotmail.com
Hello Hello nice to see yet another update within a week & hope u managed to recover from the indian - because of that having a late lunch:- 4.15pm :-) ha ha.Good luck with your dissertation and I shall see you in June!! ////00\\\\
Michael -- msmith@lanther.co.uk
Who says I never update? :-PYes, that Indian was rather a lot... as usual, we head out to the Indian - I was ravenous, and Alex proclaimed that she was only marginally hungry - so, we order too much as usual (two poppadoms each, plus starter, plus main dish), and I only manage to eat half of my main dish (chicken saag). Alex, however, demolishes the lot! Plus, at the quiz (which provides free food), you were even tempted to have some (after that enormous meal!!).
In any case, June will be great! Looking forward to it :-) Just have to get through the exams firs :-(
Alex the Indignant -- spider29378@hotmail.com
Ha ha!! You NEVER finish your meal when we go to the indian. I'm just pleased we didn't order a naan as well or else I would have had the task of finishing it! In the meantime..."oooh indian.....where the saags are and pakooooraaaa indian indian indian" :-D