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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 17/04/04 @ 12:30 am

I hate packing :-(

And so it is time for me to say farewell to the little town of Bridlington for yet another few months. I've just about finished packing (other than my computer, obviously), so I'll be getting some sleep fairly soon before the three-hour journey down to Cambridge tomorrow morning. I absolutely hate all the hassle and annoyance of moving backwards and forwards - especially given that I have so much stuff (mainly books...). It's almost like having to move house six times a year!!

In any case, I spent today doing mostly nothing - well I tried to get a bit more of my revision notes done, and to prepare for this term's D&D sessions (the next of which is on Sunday). The latter was rather unproductive in terms of actual content, but at least I now have a much better idea as to how the campaign is going to progress from here. One thing I definitely need to do is to get rid of some of the NPCs that seem to be tagging along with the party - at the moment there are six PCs and three NPCs in the party, which becomes very tedious when it comes to battles / initiative tables. I need to keep one of them around at least though, as Donny plays him when he's around in Cambridge and able to come to a session. Anyway, I won't say much more than that, in case any of my players are reading this ;-).

Right, at this point I think the time has come to quite literally say 'halt'. Goodnight!

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