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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

Monday 09/05/05 @ 06:06 pm

Strange visitations

After the excitement of yesterday's VE day celebrations, Naomi has just set off home following her flying visit. It was great to see her again, and we had a nice chat last night, and also this afternoon, after I returned from my morning of lectures. I managed to get a photo of the three of us (Matt, Naomi and me, from left to right), before she left:

I feel obligated to repeat what I've been saying to everyone for the last week or so - get a LiveJournal! It's a great way for us all to keep in touch, plus if you do, I can link the picture of you on the people page to your journal. Saira will probably call me a hypocrite, for only getting an account myself recently, but I've been running this blog (admittedly somewhat sporadically at times) for over a year now, so :-P.

Oh, and in case any of you are being observant, I've redone the layout of the site properly, so that it should now display correctly in all browsers (previously, the fonts were a bit dodgy in Mozilla).

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