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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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Monday 03/05/04 @ 12:43 am
London on a Saturday night
So, I went with Matt and Andrew through to London on Saturday. We took the train through, and stopped off for a coffee, before heading over to the East India Club. It was actually a really nice meal, although the place was absolutely dead! Anyway, Andrew gave us the guided tour, and we had a few drinks in the bar. Later, Matt headed off to the London nightlife, while Andrew and I got the last train back to Cambridge.
Today, I had the last D&D session before the exams, so there will only be one more in May Week to finish things off. Overall, I've not got a great deal of work done this weekend, though I've been doing a bit of revision this evening.
Jodie -- gravitation87@msn.com
i must say, i absolutely loveyour site, the revision notes are great! ^_^are you currently/did do/ing computer sciences at university? if so, whats the course all about? is it enjoyable etc?
Michael -- msmith@lanther.co.uk
Thanks :-)I'm in my second year of studying CompSci. The course is quite varied, but tends to focus on the more theoretical aspects of the subject (the syllabus is here). Of course, we cover more 'practical' aspects, such as programming languages, compilers, hardware design etc, which take a more general perspective (although there are specific courses on programming in ML and Java, and we had a group project). Overall, it's great fun :-D.
Andrew -- n/a
The East India Club isn't always dead, really. It can be good fun. Honest. Oh, what philistines..Sarah -- iamboredwithrevision@cam.ac.uk
Ah, male bonding at its finest in the form of the East India club(!) At risk of sounding like a raging feminist (which I am not!), I would like to point out that the reason it was dead was probably because there were no women there to provide sparkling and witty conversation...in other words, it can't possibly have been fun because I wasn't there!!