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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 23/04/05 @ 10:15 pm

Back down south...

So, today I arrived back in Cambridge; the journey down wasn't so bad, it took three and a half hours, and we stopped for a bacon butty from a roadside hut along the A1. After much heavy lifting, and then lunch, my parents left me to the usual unpacking routine. And I believe I made record time today - I started at half one, and was finished by five! My room now looks its usual self, though the tidiness will gradually diminish over the course of the term, as it usually does.

This evening, I've just been out for a meal with Matt at B-Bar, a nice little establishment that we've been frequenting since last term. Nick was supposed to be joining us, with some friends, but he didn't show up, so we started walking back to college, only to get a phone call... So we headed back again, much to the confusion of the bouncers, and had coffee. It's been nice to see them again, but I've had to leave a bit early to get on with some work. I'm pretty exhausted though, so I don't imagine I'll be up too late tonight. In any case, it'll be an early start and work-filled day tomorrow. Woohoo!

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