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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

Sunday 08/05/05 @ 05:51 pm

Naomi celebrates VE day with style

So, I was looking through the archives of nostalgia today, and found this wonderful tribute to our brave soldiers. Naomi, always one to display national pride, salutes the troops on this, the sixtieth anniversary of victory in Europe.

In other news, last night, Matt, Nick and I headed into town for a delightful dinner at Bangkok City; the curry was pretty nice, despite giving me hiccups, but the mango sorbet tasted like penicillin, or so I am told. Today, we were supposed to meet Nick and Lizi for coffee at 12, but got a text from Nick at 4.30am asking to postpone. So Matt and I, braved the hail stones, to head into town anyway. I managed to take a snap of the erratic weather from my window:

In town, we had lunch at Clowns, then wandered around a bit, stopping off at HMV, where I left my umbrella at the till, in usual forgetfulness. Other than that, we've just had coffee and cake, and I've produced a new people page, containing little photos of people - if you're not on it, it's because I don't have a photo of you, so send me one if you yearn for inclusion.

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