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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 24/04/05 @ 08:19 pm

Word limits...

I've been making good progress with this here dissertation today, and though I've still got more to write, it looks like I'm going to be on track for a draft tomorrow. Unfortunately, the 'hard' word limit of 12,000 is rapidly approaching - I'm at the 10,000 mark already, and there's still more I need to say. Oh well; looks like there's going to be some serious editing later... perhaps my experience at playing an axe-wielding maniac will come in handy for once, though Tultrig was rather better at cutting horses than dissertations.

Other than that, today has been largely uneventful, modulo the slightly burnt pizza, which I blame entirely on Johnny Cash. And on a more uplifting note, I shall leave you with something that's moving, there in the back room...

Oh, and wish good luck to my brother Chris, who'll be hearing back from his job interview tomorrow.

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